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Broken Bracelet

Michelle Branch
Michelle Branch Centennial Concert.jpg
Branch performing in January 2010
Born Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch
(1983-07-02) July 2, 1983 (age 33)
Sedona, Arizona, U.S.
Other names
  • Michelle Branch Landau
  • Michelle Landau
Occupation
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • actress
Years active 1999–present
Spouse(s) Teddy Landau (m. 2004; div. 2015)
Children 1
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Labels
Associated acts The Wreckers
Website michellebranch.com

Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch (born July 2, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. During the early 2000s, she released two top-selling albums, The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper. She won a Grammy with Santana for "The Game of Love".

In 2005, she formed the country music duo The Wreckers with friend and fellow musician Jessica Harp, and produced the Grammy-nominated single "Leave the Pieces". The Wreckers disbanded in 2007 to pursue their respective solo careers. Since then, she released extended plays in 2010 and 2011, and released her third album, Hopeless Romantic, on April 7, 2017.

Branch was born on July 2, 1983, in Sedona, Arizona, to David and Peggy Branch. Her father is Irish, and her mother is of Dutch-Indonesian ("Indo") and French descent. Her siblings include an older half-brother named David and a younger sister named Nicole.

Beginning to sing at the age of three, Branch enrolled in voice lessons at Northern Arizona University when she was eight, and received her first guitar for her fourteenth birthday. After teaching herself chords, she composed her first song "Fallen" within a week of receiving her guitar. She initially attended Sedona Red Rock High School, but finished the last two years of her high school education through home schooling so that she could focus on her music career. To support Branch's interests, her parents helped her book local gigs in Sedona, Arizona, and later financed her independent album Broken Bracelet. Her set list at these gigs included covers of songs by Sheryl Crow, Lisa Loeb, Jewel, and Fleetwood Mac.


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