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Michelle Branch


Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch (born July 2, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

She was born 7 weeks premature in Flagstaff, Arizona. Michelle is named after a Beatles's song. She is a Eurasian of Irish, French, Dutch, Spanish-Mexican, and Indonesian descent. She has an older brother, David, and a younger sister, Nicole. She attended Red Rock High School. Michelle speaks French.

Her first major hit, "Everywhere," hit radio in 2001, and was followed by another hit, "All You Wanted", both from her album The Spirit Room. In 2002, she appeared as lead vocalist on Carlos Santana's song "The Game of Love" (not to be confused with the Mindbenders song of the same name). The song went on to win a Grammy Award for best pop collaboration.

She gained acclaim alongside such artists as Avril Lavigne and Vanessa Carlton as a young woman performing pop music that was not "bubblegum," or marketed based on the artist's sexy image rather than musical integrity. However, recent steamy photoshoots with magazines like Maxim and Blender have put her previous clean cut, less sexualized image into question, in a fashion broadly reminiscent of fellow American pop stars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

Branch is also noted for writing or co-writing all of her songs on her albums. Critics have commended her thoughtful lyrics and interesting guitar chords. Michelle's music influences are The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Queen, Aerosmith, Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell. She plays several instruments like the cello, the guitar, the accordian, the drums and the piano. Her nicknames are Meech and Chelle. Her height is 5'6" (1.68m). She has a tattoo on her left shoulder.

On May 23 2004, she married her band's bass player , Teddy Landau , who is reportedly 19 years her senior, in Mexico.

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Last updated: 11-10-2004 13:18:06