When: Saturday,
October 29, 2016, 7:00 PM
Where: Beacon
Theatre w/ Steely Dan in New York, NY
Madeleine
Peyroux is a singer and songwriter born in Athens, Georgia, United States who
was born on April 18th 1974. She has become one of the most acclaimed jazz
singers of her generation, with six studio albums to her name.
Born to an
academic family who settled down everywhere from Georgia to New York to
Southern California, Madeleine Peyroux found her voice at the age of 15, while
she and her mother were living in Paris. While living in the French capital’s
Latin Quarter, she fell in with a group of busking street musicians and then
joined their troupe, known as the Riverboat Shufflers. At first she was there
to pass around a hat to anyone who was watching but as time went on, she
started singing for them and by the age of 16, she was touring all over Europe
singing jazz standards with The Lost Wandering Blues And Jazz Band. It was
while fronting that group that she started making contacts in the wider music
industry, and by the mid 1990’s she had signed a record deal with Atlantic
Records.
Her debut
album “Dreamland” was released in 1996 and was a critical hit which lead to
festival sets the world over and support slots with the likes of Sarah
McLachlan. However, Peyroux was far from comfortable with the attention that
she received as a result of the album and spent the next six years living as
low-key an existence as she could. She would play live from time to time,
mainly busking in her adopted home of Paris, France, while performing the
occasional club gig in the United States. However, in 2002 she began a personal
and professional relationship with multi-instrumentalist William Galison, with
whom she began performing live regularly, before recording and releasing the
E.P “Got You On My Mind”, her first release in six years.
The
relationship ended soon afterwards but the E.P was enough to get Rounder
Records interested in signing Peyroux up for a new record deal. She signed with
them in 2003 and in September 2004, her second full solo album “Careless Love”
was released. Ever since then she’s remained one of the most respected jazz
artists of the modern age, as celebrated for her diverse set of covers as for
her own songwriting skills. She continues to perform live and release records
to this very day, and she comes highly recommended.
Source: madeleinepeyroux.com
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