Madeleine Peyroux is an American jazz singer and songwriter who began her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris. She sang vintage jazz and blues songs before finding mainstream success in 2004 when her album Careless Love sold half a million copies.
real name: Madeleine Peyroux
labels: Atlantic Records, EmArcy Records, Verve Records, Decca, Rounder Records, Impulse!
genres: jazz, chanson
awards: BBC Jazz Awards
plays: guitar, voice, ukulele
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A native of Athens, Georgia, Peyroux grew up in New York and California, before moving to Paris at the age of 11–12. In interviews, she has called her parents "hippies" and "eccentric educators" who helped her pursue a career in music. As a child, she listened to her father's old records and learned to play her mother's ukulele.
In 2004, the release of Peyroux's planned second album was delayed because of problems with her vocal cords. These were attributed to over-use of her voice as a result of intensive touring. After discovering a cyst on her vocal cords, she needed surgery, and attempted to recover by re-training her voice. She stated that it took years to rebuild her voice, and she considered giving up singing.
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