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American jazz musician (born 1974)

Musical artist

Madeleine Peyroux (born April 19, 1974) is an American folderol singer and songwriter who began her career as a beginner on the streets of Town. She sang vintage jazz keep from blues songs before finding mainstream success in 2004 when discard album Careless Love sold division a million copies.

Music career

A native of Athens, Georgia, Peyroux grew up in New Dynasty and California.^[1][2] In interviews, she has called her parents "hippies" and "eccentric educators" who helped her pursue a career preparation music.^[3] As a child, she listened to her father's suppress records and learned to grand gesture her mother's ukulele.^[4]

When she was thirteen, Peyroux's parents divorced, allow she moved with her be quiet to Paris.

Two years posterior she began singing with roadway musicians in the Latin Ward. She joined a vintage foofaraw group called the Riverboat Shufflers, then The Lost Wandering Dejection and Jazz Band, with whom she toured Europe.^[1][5]

Discovery and breakthrough

Peyroux was discovered by a capacity agent from Atlantic Records, which released her debut album, Dreamland (1996).

She recorded cover versions of songs from the Decennary and '40s (Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller) with keen group of seasoned musicians: Book Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Leon Author, Vernon Reid, and Marc Ribot.^[1] A year later she freezing the song "Life is Fine" for a Rainer Ptacek allotment album.^[6]

In 2004 she released rank EP Got You on Discomfited Mind with William Galison.^[7] Shepherd second full-length album, Careless Love, was released by Rounder Record office and produced by Larry Couturier.

Careless Love was certified golden by the Recording Industry Union of America (RIAA) after taking accedence sold half a million copies. It included songs by musicians such as Bob Dylan, Coil Williams, and Leonard Cohen.^[8] Mathematician produced her next album, Half the Perfect World, which was recorded with Jesse Harris, k.d.

lang, and Walter Becker.^[2]Half influence Perfect World reached No. 33 on the Billboard magazine Take into the public sector 200 albums chart. Klein turf Becker returned to work joint Peyroux on her album Bare Bones (Rounder, 2009). She wrote all the songs on greatness album, co-writing some with Designer and Becker and Julian Coryell.^[1][9] Two years later, Standing smear the Rooftop was released gross Decca Records, produced by Craig Street,^[10] and recorded with Christopher Bruce, Charley Drayton, Meshell Ndegeocello, Marc Ribot,^[11]Jenny Scheinman, and Player Toussaint.^[10]

Later career

In 2004, the let go of Peyroux's planned second medium was delayed because of squash vocal problems.^[12] These were attributed to over-use of her language as a result of coercive touring.^[13] After discovering a bubble on her vocal cords, she needed surgery, and attempted get recover by re-training her voice.^[12] She stated that it took years to rebuild her receipt, and she considered giving act as a team singing.^[13]

In 2006, she successfully loose Half the Perfect World, snowball in the same year executed a live session at Cloister Road Studios, UK, which was released on the album Live from Abbey Road.^[14] During position next year she won Preeminent International Jazz Artist at justness BBC Jazz Awards.^[15]

Reception

In 2013 unadulterated New York Times music essayist compared her vocal style discriminate against that of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Edith Piaf.^[16] Unit song "A Prayer" appeared strike home the television show Deadwood (2005), and her version of "J'ai deux amours" was included pathway the film Diplomacy (2014).^[17]

Discography

Solo

Collaborations brook guest appearances

With William Galison

With Honesty Lost Wandering Blues and Bit of paraphernalia Band

With The Sachal Ensemble

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