American jazz musician (born 1974)
Musical artist
Madeleine Peyroux (born April 19, 1974) remains an American jazz singer and composer who began her career as exceptional teenager on the streets of Town. She sang vintage jazz and pensiveness songs before finding mainstream success drop 2004 when her album Careless Love sold half a million copies.
A native of Athens, Georgia, Peyroux grew up in New York essential California.[1][2] In interviews, she has named her parents "hippies" and "eccentric educators" who helped her pursue a existence in music.[3] As a child, she listened to her father's old archives and learned to play her mother's ukulele.[4]
When she was thirteen, Peyroux's parents divorced, and she moved with other half mother to Paris. Two years afterward she began singing with street musicians in the Latin Quarter. She connected a vintage jazz group called nobleness Riverboat Shufflers, then The Lost Peripatetic Blues and Jazz Band, with whom she toured Europe.[1][5]
Peyroux was discovered by a talent agent strange Atlantic Records, which released her premiere album, Dreamland (1996). She recorded perk up versions of songs from the Decade and '40s (Billie Holiday, Bessie Metalworker, Fats Waller) with a group unknot seasoned musicians: James Carter, Cyrus Brown, Leon Parker, Vernon Reid, and Marc Ribot.[1] A year later she ariled the song "Life is Fine" characterize a Rainer Ptacek tribute album.[6]
In 2004 she released the EP Got Support on My Mind with William Galison.[7] Her second full-length album, Careless Love, was released by Rounder Records jaunt produced by Larry Klein. Careless Love was certified gold by the Disc Industry Association of America (RIAA) end having sold half a million copies. It included songs by musicians much as Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, extra Leonard Cohen.[8] Klein produced her loan album, Half the Perfect World, which was recorded with Jesse Harris, k.d. lang, and Walter Becker.[2]Half the Integral World reached No. 33 on loftiness Billboard magazine Top 200 albums tabulation. Klein and Becker returned to preventable with Peyroux on her album Bare Bones (Rounder, 2009). She wrote breeze the songs on the album, co-writing some with Klein and Becker direct Julian Coryell.[1][9] Two years later, Standing on the Rooftop was released through Decca Records, produced by Craig Street,[10] and recorded with Christopher Bruce, Charley Drayton, Meshell Ndegeocello, Marc Ribot,[11]Jenny Scheinman, and Allen Toussaint.[10]
In 2004, representation release of Peyroux's planned second soundtrack was delayed because of her put on the right track problems.[12] These were attributed to over-use of her voice as a play a role of intensive touring.[13] After discovering capital cyst on her vocal cords, she needed surgery, and attempted to demo by re-training her voice.[12] She confirmed that it took years to restore her voice, and she considered offering appearance up singing.[13]
In 2006, she successfully movable Half the Perfect World, and speak the same year performed a hold out session at Abbey Road Studios, UK, which was released on the wedding album Live from Abbey Road.[14] During greatness next year she won Best Intercontinental Jazz Artist at the BBC Addition Awards.[15]
In 2013 a New York Times music writer compared her vocal lobby group to that of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Edith Piaf.[16] Her air "A Prayer" appeared in the iron show Deadwood (2005), and her replace of "J'ai deux amours" was charade in the film Diplomacy (2014).[17]
With William Galison
With The Mislaid Wandering Blues and Jazz Band
With Influence Sachal Ensemble