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Candie Payne
Candie performing at Glastonbury Festival in 2007
Background information
Born	1981 in Liverpool, England
Years active	2006 – present
Label(s)	Deltasonic/Columbia Records
Website	Official website, MySpace page

Candie Payne (born 1983) is an English singer-songwriter from Liverpool, signed as a solo artist to Deltasonic. She is the sister of Howie Payne, the frontman of now defunct band The Stands and Sean Payne, the drummer of The Zutons.

Style

Payne sings 60s-inspired pop. Soul singers Minnie Riperton and Roberta Flack are among her influences. Her pet hate is 'over-singing'."^[1]

Liverpudlian icon

In November 2007 the Times Magazine looked ahead to Liverpool's year as the European City of Culture in 2008 by featuring Payne on its cover alongside Liverpuddlian singer Cilla Black and Abi Harding of the Zutons, who was engaged to Payne's brother Sean - "How Liverpoool got its mojo back". The Times noted that, during a photo-shoot that involved a number of other musicians, Cilla Black reflected nostalgically on the 1960s, while Payne and Harding enthused about the variety of contemporary venues in the city ^[2].

Some fashion writers reflected on Payne's and Harding's influence on Liverpool's "underground band scene", drawing a contrast with the "brassier" style of local WAGs such as Alex Curran and Coleen McLoughlin (partners of footballers Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney). Sunday Times Style remarked early in 2008 that the fashionable Korova bar in the city's Fleet Street "is so cool, you can sense Liverpool evolving from a city full of in-your-face show-offs into something far more knowing":

The girls here are different from their brassier neighbours. Yet, if they're indie, they're still a glossy version. Peroxide bobs, red lipstick, polka-dot shirts, good heels ... They are inspired by local success storie such as Abby [sic] from the Zutons and Candie Payne - and united in their dislike of Curran and co ... "Lots of girls think she [Curran] is it, but it's a pretty sad life to be 25 and only go shopping" ^[3].

Although Candie's relationship status is unknown she has been linked with Zutons front man Dave McCabe and is widely believed to be romantically involved with producer Mark Ronson with whom she is collaborating on her second album.

Discography

Singles

• "All I Need to Hear" - July 2006, limited 7"
• "Take Me" - September 2006, limited 7"
• "By Tomorrow" - November 2006, download only
• "I Wish I Could Have Loved You More" - May 2007, CD / 7" / download. This single reached #84 in the UK Official Singles Chart.
• "One More Chance" (produced by Mark Ronson) - September 2007, CD / 7" / download. This single reached #122 in the UK Official Singles Chart.

Albums

• I Wish I Could Have Loved You More - May 2007, CD / LP / download. This album reached number 56 on the UK Official Album Chart in its first week of release in Britain

Appears on

• The Unfairground by Kevin Ayers - Sep 2007, CD
• "Big Umbrella" by Kings Have Long Arms - Jan 2008, CD/7"

Trivia

• On 22 February 2008 she appeared on the The Chris Moyles Show and sang a birthday song for Chris Moyles, as it was his birthday.
• She also sang a version of "Oh My God" with Mark Ronson and Ricky Wilson on The Jonathon Ross Show in December 2007.
• She also sang a version of "Oh My God" with Mark Ronson at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland in July, 2008.

References

External links

• Candie Payne on MySpace Music
• AskMen.com Interview

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