Andrea Corr, 51, has barely aged a day as shows off toned body in tiny bikini
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Andrea Corr has barely aged a day since rising to fame in the 1990s
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The singer showed off her tone physique while on holiday in Barbados
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The Corrs were a hit band from Ireland who continue to tour the world to this day
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Andrea rose to fame in the band alongside her siblings,
,
and
in the 1990s thanks to their
violins and tin whistles
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The Irish siblings were best known for songs like Breathless, So Young, and Runaway, and they won Best International Group at The Brits in 1999.
The band singer looked like she'd barely aged a day in 30 years as she took a dip in the sea outside the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados.
Andrea wore her black locks in a pony tail but days earlier wore them long, down her shoulders while
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Earlier this year,
The Corrs singer said she "loved" the costume, gushing: "I had such a good time, everyone's been lovely, it's been really joyous. I wanted to do it for the children."
, made up of Andrea on lead vocals, Sharon on violin, Caroline on drums and brother Jim on the guitar and piano, have continued to perform together over the years.
Andrea was once married to barrister Gavin Bonnar, who she wed in 2001, and they split in 2019.
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Since the split, Bonnar went to live with Telma Ortiz in Madrid, the sister of Spain's monarch, Queen Letizia.
The 51-year-old opened up about their break up at the time, saying she had a breakdown on a flight.
90s pop legend unrecognisable 23 years after winning a BRIT Award
She said: "I was going through a tumultuous experience. I was on a plane from Madrid to Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Something very personal and distressing had occurred the day before, which shocked me
"I was reeling, absolutely reeling, from it."
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Continuing, the Corrs singer shared: "I was crying on the plane and I didn't care that I was crying. If people were looking at me, that didn't matter."
She said after the flight she was on became delayed by a few hours due to weather it allowed her time to think, and she channelled her emotions into writing.
She added: "I felt the gigantic storm outside was in sync with what was going on in my life.
'It was almost therapy, because there was definitely a huge storm going on inside of me. These words of a song just started to fall out of me. While the plane took ages to take off, I wrote and wrote and wrote."
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Andrea now lives in Madrid, Spain
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