Full Name : Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch LandauStage name : Michelle Branch
Date of birth : July 2, 1983
Place of birth: Sedona, Arizona, USA
Genre(s) : Adult Alternative, folk, pop rock, country
Instrument(s): Guitar, cello, accordion, drums, harmonica, piano, mandolin, vocals.
Association: Member of The Wreckers with Jessica Harp
Michelle Branch is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter and guitarist. She made her debut in 2000, and released the platinum-selling albums The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper in August 2001 and June 2003 respectively. In 2004, she formed the musical duo The Wreckers with fellow musician Jessica Harp.
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Early life and solo career
Branch was born seven weeks premature in Flagstaff, Arizona, and was named after The Beatles' song "Michelle". Her father is of Irish ancestry while her Eurasian mother was born in the Netherlands; her maternal grandmother was from East Java and was held in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, while her maternal grandfather was Dutch.[1] She has an older half-brother, David, and a younger sister, Nicole.
Branch started taking voice lessons at a local university when she was 8 years old. She received a guitar for her fourteenth birthday from her uncle. She locked herself in her room and taught herself chords; within a few days she had composed her first song. She focused on the arts during high school, and was writing songs extensively. She attended Sedona Red Rock High School in Sedona but with the support of her parents, decided to continue her high school education through homeschooling, which allowed her to follow her dreams of becoming a singer-songwriter. She had begged her parents to allow her to leave regular high school, and one night at dinner she asked why she had to go back to school, and to her surprise, her father replied with, "Yeah, why does she?" She played clubs for years and released her debut album Broken Bracelet independently in 2000.
She signed a record deal with Madonna's record company Maverick while opening for Hanson in December 2000. Her first album under Maverick, The Spirit Room, was released in August 2001 and went on to sell over one million copies in the U.S. The single "Everywhere" became a worldwide top-twenty hit, and was followed by the U.S. top-ten hit "All You Wanted" and the top-forty single "Goodbye to You". Branch was frequently compared (both positively and negatively) to other singer-songwriters like Alicia Keys, Avril Lavigne, and Vanessa Carlton who rose to prominence at around the same time as she. In 2002 Branch was the lead vocalist on Carlos Santana's song "The Game of Love", which became her first single to reach the U.S. top five; it went on to win a Grammy Award for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals".
In 2003 she released her second full-length album, Hotel Paper, which became her second RIAA-certified platinum album but was met with mixed reviews. The lead single "Are You Happy Now?" became another top-twenty hit for Branch in the U.S., but follow-up singles "Breathe" and "'Til I Get over You" failed to achieve substantial success. In June 2004 she hosted MTV's Faking the Video alongside Nick Lachey and JC Chasez.
Branch married her tour band's bass player, Teddy Landau, who is 19 years her senior, in Mexico on May 23, 2004. On August 3, 2005, Branch gave birth to a 7lb. 12oz. (3.5 kg) baby girl named Owen Isabelle.
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Musical style
Branch writes or co-writes all of her own material, and her music influences are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Aerosmith, Patsy Cline, Cat Stevens, Stevie Nicks and Joni Mitchell.[citation needed] While her musical tastes lean more toward older musicians, she also enjoys contemporary bands such as Incubus, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Metallica, and Silverchair and current songwriters including Lisa Loeb, Sheryl Crow, and Patty Griffin. She has also expressed her admiration for classical music.[citation needed]
Branch mainly uses Taylor and Gibson guitars. Her favorite is a Taylor 614ce, and she currently uses a Gibson Hummingbird. She owns fourteen guitars. In addition to the guitar, Branch plays instruments such as the cello, the accordion, the drums, the piano, the harmonica, and the mandolin.
Albums
* Broken Bracelet (2000) - uncertified
* The Spirit Room (2001) - #28 U.S.; RIAA certification: platinum
* Hotel Paper (2003) - #2; RIAA certification: platinum
Hit Singles :
2005 - "I'm Feeling You"
2004 - "One of These Days" and Til I Get over You"
2003 - "Are You Happy Now?" and "Breathe"
2002 - "All You Wanted", "The Game of Love"(Santana featuring Michelle Branch) and "Goodbye to You"
2001 - "Everywhere"
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