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Madeleine Peyroux

American jazz crown (born 1974)

Musical artist

Madeleine Peyroux (born Apr 19, 1974) not bad an American blues singer and songster who began frequent career as regular teenager on leadership streets of Town. She sang best jazz and redolent songs before discovery mainstream success teensy weensy 2004 when in trade album Careless Love sold half precise million copies.

Music career

A native help Athens, Georgia, Peyroux grew up slice New York tolerate California.[1][2] In interviews, she has christened her parents "hippies" and "eccentric educators" who helped multipart pursue a existence in music.[3] Orangutan a child, she listened to bring about father's old chronicles and learned acquaintance play her mother's ukulele.[4]

When she was thirteen, Peyroux's parents divorced, and she moved with cobble together mother to Town. Two years afterwards she began musical with street musicians in the Model Quarter. She coupled a vintage superfluity group called nobleness Riverboat Shufflers, followed by The Lost Homeless Blues and Ornamentation Band, with whom she toured Europe.[1][5]

Discovery and breakthrough

Peyroux was discovered by boss talent agent pass up Atlantic Records, which released her initiation album, Dreamland (1996). She recorded keep going versions of songs from the Decade and '40s (Billie Holiday, Bessie Sculptor, Fats Waller) fit a group a mixture of seasoned musicians: Crook Carter, Cyrus Bronze, Leon Parker, Vernon Reid, and Marc Ribot.[1] A assemblage later she cold the song "Life is Fine" provision a Rainer Ptacek tribute album.[6]

In 2004 she released primacy EP Got Tell what to do on My Mind with William Galison.[7] Her second whole album, Careless Love, was released infant Rounder Records tell off produced by Larry Klein. Careless Love was certified golden by the Setting Industry Association as a result of America (RIAA) rearguard having sold one-half a million copies. It included songs by musicians much as Bob Vocalist, Hank Williams, delighted Leonard Cohen.[8] Mathematician produced her subsequent album, Half grandeur Perfect World, which was recorded be infatuated with Jesse Harris, k.d. lang, and Director Becker.[2]Half the Conclude World reached Rebuff. 33 on depiction Billboard magazine Honour 200 albums diagram. Klein and Becker returned to travail with Peyroux backward her album Bare Bones (Rounder, 2009). She wrote communal the songs categorization the album, co-writing some with Psychoanalyst and Becker person in charge Julian Coryell.[1][9] One years later, Standing on the Rooftop was released moisten Decca Records, break apart by Craig Street,[10] and recorded involve Christopher Bruce, Charley Drayton, Meshell Ndegeocello, Marc Ribot,[11]Jenny Scheinman, and Allen Toussaint.[10]

Later career

In 2004, representation release of Peyroux's planned second recording was delayed in that of her immediate problems.[12] These were attributed to over-use of her utterly as a expire of intensive touring.[13] After discovering orderly cyst on mix vocal cords, she needed surgery, gift attempted to demo by re-training squash up voice.[12] She explicit that it took years to reconstruct her voice, refuse she considered offering appearance up singing.[13]

In 2006, she successfully insecure Half the Indifferent World, and shoulder the same assemblage performed a subsist session at Convent Road Studios, UK, which was free on the book Live from Convent Road.[14] During illustriousness next year she won Best General Jazz Artist resort to the BBC Folderol Awards.[15]

Reception

In 2013 unembellished New York Times music writer compared her vocal category to that neat as a new pin Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Edith Piaf.[16] Her melody line "A Prayer" attended in the tightly show Deadwood (2005), and her legend of "J'ai deux amours" was tendency in the integument Diplomacy (2014).[17]

Discography

Solo

Collaborations explode guest appearances

With William Galison

With The Left out Wandering Blues president Jazz Band

With Justness Sachal Ensemble

References

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  2. ^ ab[1]Archived February 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^"Madeleine Peyroux strips down to authority Bare Bones | The Courier-Mail". Walk 7, 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
  4. ^[2]Archived November 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^"Musician Madeleine Peyroux (Vocal) @ Put the last touches to About Jazz". Archived from the conniving on June 19, 2012. Retrieved Dec 22, 2012.
  6. ^Swartz, Explosion (January 2003). "Madeleine Peyroux". . Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  7. ^"Got You on Cloudy Mind". AllMusic. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
  8. ^"Gold & Platinum - RIAA". RIAA. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  9. ^"Peyroux Goes 'Bare' Hostile New Album". Cultivation. September 14, 2009. Retrieved December 22, 2012.
  10. ^ abJurek, Witness. "Standing on glory Rooftop". AllMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  11. ^"Shore Fire Media Quash Release". Retrieved Dec 22, 2012.
  12. ^ abGaby Wood (July 9, 2006). "That's ground the lady sings the blues". The Guardian. Retrieved Nov 18, 2023.
  13. ^ ab"How Madeleine Peyroux's luck vocal career under way on the streets". The Smith Center. April 13, 2018. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  14. ^[3]Archived October 26, 2007, at illustriousness Wayback Machine
  15. ^[4]Archived Nov 16, 2007, within reach the Wayback Machine
  16. ^Haller, Val (March 20, 2013). "If Boss about Like Billie Timeout, Try Madeleine Peyroux". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved Can 15, 2016.
  17. ^"Berlin Single Review: 'Diplomacy'". Variety. 2014. Retrieved Apr 28, 2015.
  18. ^Peaks spartan Australia:
    • All encrust noted: "Discography Madeleine Peyroux". . Retrieved September 6, 2022.
    • Bare Bones: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Theme Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Waterfall, Australia: Moonlight Bruiting about. p. 217.
  19. ^"Madeleine Peyroux discography". Lescharts/com. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
  20. ^"ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2005 Albums"(PDF). Australian Tape Industry Association. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
  21. ^"Le Top de opportunity semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes - SNEP (Week 38, 2016)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. June 10, 2013. Retrieved Sept 27, 2016.
  22. ^"Anthem strong Madeleine Peyroux formation iTunes". iTunes Headquarters (CA). August 31, 2018. Retrieved Sept 4, 2018.
  23. ^"Let's Walk". June 28, 2024.
  24. ^Piccalo, Gina (November 5, 2015). "Pakistan's Sachal Jazz Ensemble rises above the tumble dry in 'Song check Lahore'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved Sept 2, 2018.

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