The Corrs rank among the most successful Irish bands of all time, having sold 40 million albums worldwide across a career spanning three decades.
The band will play Auckland's Spark Arena on 9 November before heading to Christchurch's Hagley Park on 11 November.
Sharon Corr loves Kiwis' sense of humour. Photo: AFP
The 'big sister' of the band - violinist, vocalist and keyboards player Sharon Corr - spoke to Sunday Morning.
Her fellow siblings, Andrea, Caroline and Jim are also part of the Corrs, who grew up in Dundalk, County Louth.
Sharon Corr last visited New Zealand as a solo performer. She says the band members identified with New Zealanders in part because residents of both nations are straight-talkers with a similar sense of humour.
Kiwis are quirky, she says. "The humour is off the charts. Sarcasm, I love that."
Even an early morning television interview when she was last in Auckland was "super-funny".
One of the questions concerned her being asked if she would perform naked on a cruise ship and she found the idea very amusing.
The band have all taken time out to raise families and Corr says all their children will be staying home in Ireland when the band goes on its month-long tour that also takes in Australia and the Philippines.
Her own children who are 15 and 16 love music, her daughter is "a beautiful singer" and her son "a lovely piano player" but she has no intentions of pushing them into careers in music.
Sharon Corr says she is an admirer of "well crafted music, beautifully written". Joni Mitchell has been a major influencer for her, both as a musician and a woman.
Current music has "a slightly disposable quality at the moment", she says.
However, she believes the industry is undergoing change for the better and people are turning more to the well-crafted music from the past.
Her teenagers are listening to artists she listened to like the Cure and the Police.
"They're seeking out something that may be richer and really well-crafted."
Having said that, she believes Adele is a special artist, writer and singer, and she also enjoys modern jazz.
From left, Sharon, Jim, Caroline and Andrea Corr in Berlin in 2016. Photo: AFP
Corrs success 'bewildering,' 'surreal'
Corr says achieving the success of the late 1990s and early 2000s alongside her siblings was "bewildering", "challenging" and "very surreal".
While it was a dream come true and they enjoyed sampling the cultures of so many countries at the height of their fame, it was difficult to be spending so much time with family members.
"I've often said our biggest success is the fact that we're still talking to each other.
"A lot of bands they don't - you're kind of hiding because they won't tour again. We're really good on that and we did take in a lot of it though we missed some parts too just from a lot of work."
Even if there were arguments at times and they felt the pressure they remembered the terms on which they had come together to make music.
"We were always cognisant of that magic that happens even if we'd been rowing five minutes before we got on stage."
Being Irish kept them grounded too, she believes.
"You couldn't get any stupid ideas about yourself."
Corr said it was the right time when the band members decided to take a break because they had become jaded after years of touring together.
"It was going to lose its magic... There are paths in life that you need to follow. It was time to get all that stuff on track."
Her last solo album, The Fool and the Scorpion, was well received by critics and fans and showed her vulnerability.
She says it was cathartic to write and she was able to share what was within her soul which seemed to resonate with her fans.
"It feels, because it is, the truth ... I didn't question what I was doing, why I was doing it, I just felt I was improving as a writer ...It felt really good for me... it's truly a privilege."
The Corrs reunited to play together for the first time last year and she focused on the joy it brought to their fans.
"To me it's a form of religion ... you find a common faith between many different kinds of people and cultures in music and that's really special."
