Michelle Lambert
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Lambert in July 2016
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| Birth name | Michelle Marie Lambert |
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May 2, 1985 Covelo, California, US |
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| Years active | 2015–present |
| Website | michellelambert |
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Michelle Lambert (born May 2, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, born in Covelo, California and raised in the Bay Area. After a long career as a professional musician, she released her debut album Warrior in 2015. One of Lambert's highlights was the halftime performance at the NCAA finals in 2014 in front of 18,000 people at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee On January 9, 2015 she made the front page of the Reporter-Herald in an article about her official music video Warrior that spotlights high school football players during a game.
Michelle Lambert started studying the violin when she was 2 years old under the Suzuki Method, following the footsteps of her 4 older siblings. At the age of 12 she was already working as a professional musician in Northern California. In 2008 she moved to Boston where she attended the Berklee College of Music majoring in Professional Music. Michelle moved to Nashville in 2011 after graduating from Berklee, to pursue a career as a studio and stage musician. In 2015 she moved to Los Angeles, California in order to release her debut album and focus on her solo career as a pop singer.
Lambert became Catholic at the age of 12 and briefly considered a vocation to religious life at 19. According to the singer, a visit to the Salesian Sisters ended up showing her that music was her true calling.
In an interview for Asia Pop 40, Lambert told Dom Lau (host of the show and former Channel V VJ and E! News Asia) that she considered a career in private aviation in her teenage years. She even got 100 hours of flight time while pursuing her pilot's license.
Lambert worked as a professional musician since her early teen years, career that took her to San Francisco, Boston, Nashville and Los Angeles. While in Boston she was part of the Captain Wolf Band and got featured in 3 songs from their debut CD, as a singer and songwriter. Lambert's participation on the album was so notable that she was even featured in the cover of the CD. Despite being a self release, the album was well received and became a "jukebox star" being featured in over 28,000 jukebox across North America.
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