Michelle Branch

Michelle Jaquet DeSevren Branch was born in Phoenix, en Arizona, on July 2nd 1983. Michelle was born seven weeks early in only 3 lb 11oz, and says she ce que eager to get into the world. Her whole life she has loved music, listen to The Beatles since she que dans the womb. At the time of her birth, her family were living de Flagstaff, en Arizona, but as it was 4th of July weekend, there were no places at the hospital and her mum, Peggy had to be flown to Phoenix with her dad, David following in the car. When Michelle ce que just three years old she recorded herself singing Beatles covers on her parents karaoké machine and sent them off to her la grand-mère. She remembers her version of "Ticket To Ride" clearly, "She's got a chicken to ride, but she don't care!". At eight years old she took up singing lessons, but had to give them up when at eleven years old along with her parents, her older brother David (b. March 11th 1979) and younger sister, Nicole (b. 1987) she moved to Sedona, en Arizona. From then on Michelle took up singing lessons with Gina Bettum, and a year after picking up the guitar by herself, at age de 15 she started lessons with Ms. Bettums husband, Gary, but quickly stopped having lessons with him after she found herself constantly being technical instead of going with the flow. Donc, at age 15, Michelle left school and was home tutored by her mum, with a clear warning that if her degré dropped, she must return to school but luckily that never happened and she was able to focus on her music more. Her first break into the music industry happened when she quelle at home, looking after her younger sister Nicole. A family friend called her up and told her that a music manager canaux Jeff Rabhan ce que taking a time share tour at her company and to get down to her office with a demo tape. Unable to leave Nicole alone and with no drivers licence or des parents dans the house, Michelle stole her neighbours golf cart and made her way down to the resort with Nicole. Michelle says that when they got there he wasn't interested but after forcing her tape on him, he listened to it on his way home in the car. A few months later, Michelle de façon inattendue received a phone call from him, asking to sign her. He is still her manager to this day. After signing with Jeff Rabhan s company, Michelle went into the studio to record à indy album nommé Broken Bracelet and planned to give it away at local spectacles. Then in Summer 2000, Michelle received another phone call this time from Hanson s reps, demander à Michelle to play for them on some of their prochains spectacles. Michelle happily accepted, packed bags and her flew to California where she would be spotted by a rep at Maverick Records and offered a record deal. En Décembre 2000, Michelle eventually signed with Madonna's label and was halfway through finition her first major album, later titrée "The Spirit Room". The summer hit of 2001 turned out to be "Everywhere", the first single off de Michelle album. It shot into the #12 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, and made Michelle à established upcomer, with everyone wanting to work with her including Lifehouse, Juif, The Calling, Sheryl Crow and most recently, The Dixie Les poussins bringing her on tour with them. Then in January 2002, "All You Wanted" - Michelle s favourite off the album ont pris d'assaut dans at #6 and reached #1 on the TRL top 10. As summer 2002 came around, not even a year after her debut, and just a few weeks after the release of her third and final single off TSR, "Goodbye To You" (which reached #21), Carlos Santana requested Michelle services for his retour album, Shaman. The song ce "Game Of Love and hit the top 5, gaining Michelle worldwide recognition. Even Michelle admits that the duet made her, especially after being nominated for "Best New Artist" and winning "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals" at the Grammy Awards en Février 2003. Dans Avril 2003, Michelle finished recording her album, nommé Hôtel Paper, after years of writing. The first single to be taken off HP que "Are You Happy Now?