SuRie

Susanna Marie Cork[1] (born 18 February 1989), better known as SuRie, is an English singer and songwriter. She was born in Harlow, Essex[2] and raised in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.[3]

SuRie
Background information
Birth nameSusanna Marie Cork
Born (1989-02-18) 18 February 1989
Harlow, Essex, England
OriginBishop's Stortford, England
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, musician
InstrumentsVocals, piano, oboe
Years active2015–present
Labels
  • MMP
  • Scarlett Audio
Websitewww.surie.me

Early life and career

SuRie was born Susanna Marie Cork to Andrew Cork and Julia (née Kornberg). Her maternal grandfather, Sir Hans Kornberg, is a German-born British-American biochemist, whose own parents were killed in the Holocaust. He passed away in December 2019. Her stage name SuRie is a combination of first names Susanna Marie.[4] SuRie attended Hills Road Sixth Form College and later graduated from the Royal Academy of Music.[5] Initially trained classically, she can play piano and oboe. She also trained as a vocalist. She started writing at just 12 years old. She has had residencies in Jazz lounges in London.[6] Her younger brother is singer-songwriter Benedict Cork.

She performed in front of Prince of Wales as a child soloist and appeared in different British venues such as The Royal Albert Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral[4] and at venues all around the world, including St. Mark's Basilica in Venice.[7]

Eurovision Song Contest 2018
See also: Eurovision Song Contest 2018

In January 2018, SuRie was confirmed as one of six artists competing in Eurovision: You Decide, the British national selection show for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.[8] On 7 February 2018, she won the show with the song "Storm", written and composed by Nicole Blair, Gil Lewis, and Sean Hargreaves, and represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.[1][9]

She has a previous experience in the contest, as a backing vocalist and dancer for Loïc Nottet who represented Belgium in Eurovision 2015 in Vienna, Austria with "Rhythm Inside" and she also appeared as a musical director for Blanche’s "City Lights" in Kyiv, Ukraine in Eurovision 2017.[7]

As the United Kingdom is a member of the "Big Five", SuRie automatically qualified to the grand final of the contest, which took place on 12 May 2018[10] in Lisbon, Portugal after Salvador Sobral's win in 2017.

SuRie's performance in the final was disrupted by an unknown man who grabbed her microphone and shouted "Modern nazis of the UK media, we demand freedom, war is not peace."[11] She was able to complete her performance, and the broadcast cut to an unscheduled interview in the green room following the song. As a result, SuRie was given permission to perform again after the final performance, but she subsequently declined to do so saying she was proud of her performance.[11]

A year after the Eurovision participation, SuRie revealed that she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the incident at the contest.[12]

Discography

Studio albums
Title Details
Something Beginning With ...
Dozen

Extended plays
Title Details
SuRie
  • Released: 7 July 2016
  • Label: Scarlett Audio
  • Format: Digital download
Out of Universe
  • Released: 13 September 2016
  • Label: Silent Audio
  • Format: Digital download
Rye
  • Released: 15 May 2020
  • Label: MMP
  • Format: Digital download

Singles
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[13]		 FRA
[14]
"Lover, You Should've Come Over" 2017 —— non-album single
"Storm" 2018 50103
"Taking It Over" ——
"Only You and I" 2019 ——
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released.

References
  1. "UK's Eurovision 2018 act chosen". BBC News. 8 February 2018.
  2. "SuRie Biography". pantheon.world. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  3. "A "born and bred" Bishop's Stortford singer could represent the UK at Eurovision this year". Hertfordshire Mercury. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  4. SuRie Retrieved on 17 February 2018
  5. Tonks, Andrea (20 March 2018). "Eurovision 2018: Meet all of the contestants in the Eurovision Song Contest". Express. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  6. "SuRie to bring a storm to Lisbon for the United Kingdom!". Eurovision.tv. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  7. About SuRie Retrieved on 17 February 2018
  8. "SuRie: BBC Eurovision contest announces winning UK act". BBC News. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  9. Hirst, Jordan (February 2018). "Listen: The UK's Eurovision 2018 Track Was Written By A Queenslander". QNews. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  10. O'Connor, Roisin (7 February 2018). "SuRie: BBC Eurovision contest announces winning UK act". The Independent. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  11. "Stage stormed during UK's Eurovision song". BBC News. 12 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  12. "הזמרת הבריטית חושפת: סובלת מפוסט טראומה". EuroMix.
  13. "SuRie | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  14. "Discographie SuRie". lescharts.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
Preceded by
Lucie Jones
with "Never Give Up on You"		 United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
2018		 Succeeded by
Michael Rice
with "Bigger than Us"
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