Madeleine Peyroux
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Madeleine Peyroux in 2005
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| Background information | |
| Born |
April 18, 1974 Athens, Georgia, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, blues |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1990s–present |
| Labels | Atlantic, Rounder, Decca |
| Associated acts | The Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band |
| Website | madeleinepeyroux |
Madeleine Peyroux (born April 18, 1974, Athens, Georgia, United States) is a French-American jazz and blues singer-songwriter.
When Peyroux was six, her family moved from Georgia to Brooklyn and later southern California. At age 13 her parents divorced, and she moved with her mother to Paris. In interviews, Peyroux describes her parents as "hippies" and "eccentric educators" who helped her pursue a career in music. As a child, she listened to her father's old records and Peyroux learned to play her mother's ukulele.
Peyroux started singing at the age of fifteen and performed with street musicians in the Latin Quarter in Paris. She joined a group called the Riverboat Shufflers. At age sixteen she joined The Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band and toured Europe with them.
On Dreamland (Atlantic, 1996), her debut album, she was accompanied by Cyrus Chestnut, Vernon Reid, Marc Ribot, James Carter, and Leon Parker. The album contained original songs by Peyroux and blues songs from the 1920s and 1930s (Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller).
In 1997, she covered the song "Life is Fine" as a Rainer Ptácek tribute.
In 2004 she released Got You on My Mind, an EP with William Galison. The same year, she released her second solo album, Careless Love, which sold over a million copies worldwide. On September 3, 2006, Peyroux performed a live session for Live from Abbey Road at Abbey Road Studios and in July 2007, she was selected as Best International Jazz Artist at the BBC Jazz Awards.
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