Vanessa Carlton

Vanessa Lee Carlton (Milford, 16 August 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. With the worldwide hit A Thousand Miles in 2002 she got name recognition.



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[hide] *1 life and career  ==Life and career[ Edit] == ===Youth[ Edit] === Vanessa Carlton was in place Milford born on 16 August 1980. As a daughter of Ed Carlton, consultant in aviation, and Heidi Lee Carlton, pianist and music teacher[1], she is both half-Scandinavian and half-Russian origin[2]. Carlton has a younger sister, Gwen, and a younger brother, Edmund.
 * 1.1 Youth
 * 1.2 Be Not Nobody (2002)
 * 1.3 Harmonium (2004)
 * 1.4 Heroes & Thieves (2007)
 * 1.5 Rabbits on the Run (2011)
 * Private 1.6
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3 external links

Vanessa Carlton at an early age became interested in art and music. If two year girl she was continuously drawing on a Montessori school. They also played at that age it's A Small World on the piano after a visit to Disneyland. The latter turned out to be the first signal of its musicality. From that moment got Carlton piano lessons from her mother which she became acquainted with the composers Eric Satie, Mozart and Debussy.Vanessa Carlton on her eighth wrote her first piano rhymes. [3]

When she was nine, enjoyed ballet her special interest. Four years later, Carlton travelled regularly to New York with great ballerinas Gelsey Kirkland and as Nenette Charisse to exercise. At the age of fourteen, she was adopted at the School of American Ballet in New York, for which she left her parents ' House for a place to stay in Lincoln Center. [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The pressure and competition in the ballet world frustrated and isolated her in the end. She started on her seventeenth therefore again with writing piano pieces, this time with text that they themselves also sang. Her voice and the piano would bring together that way, she had not imagined.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.sing365.com_3-2" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  after being managed Carlton went studying at Columbia University, which she gave up shortly afterwards for a job as a waitress in Lower Manhattan.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.cbsnews.com_4-0" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  in the meantime they spent day and night writing and singing songs, hoping for a breakthrough.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.msnbc.msn.com_5-0" len="185" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5] ===Be Not Nobody (2002)<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The Vanessa Carlton's singing career began in the famous club The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, New York. Since she was only seventeen years old, she had to bring her father. Starting from the first concert in the night club began the search for a record deal. That turned out to be initially difficult, because many producers Carl ton melodies and lyrics were not commercial enough.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.msnbc.msn.com_5-1" len="185" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  Eventually invited Peter Amir, a few months after he had met Carlton, her to record a demo. Vanessa Carlton In 1998 signed a recording contract with Interscope Records, where she started recording her first album never released, however, would be that Rinse .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.filmbug.com_6-0" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  the then leader of A & M Records, Ron Fair then went with Carl ton songs to get started.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.musicianguide.com_7-0" len="189" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]  from the album Ordinary Daywould Rinse , Pretty Baby, Rinse and Twilight in 2002 appear on the debut album Be Not Nobody, as well as Interlude, better known as A Thousand Miles. Rinse-number included Carnival was still under the name Dark Carnival for video game Spy Hunter 2 .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">With A Thousand Miles Vanessa Carlton scored a worldwide hit in 2002. In the Netherlands was number 17 weeks in the Dutch Top 40 and reached the sixth position.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.top40.nl_8-0" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]  In Flanders, the number 18 weeks in theUltratop 50 and completed the fourth position. In addition, A Thousand Miles was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year and got the the BMI Pop Award as well as the VH1 Big Award assigned. Be Not Nobody 's global more than two million copies were sold, with which the album became Platinum.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.pmmanagement.com_9-0" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9] ===Harmonium (2004)<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">After her successful album – showing, in particular, the taste of producer Ron Fair had come forward<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-thecelebritycafe.com_10-0" len="190" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  -Vanessa Carlton was determined to record an album that came to lie closer to her personality. With her then-friend Stephan Jenkins, lead singer of Third Eye Blind, she decided to record new songs in the parts of George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch near San Francisco.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.clevescene.com_11-0" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  Carl ton second album Harmonium was named and was released in 2004 . This collection of eleven songs makes a more mature impression compared to the confident, girlish character Carl ton's debut album.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.clevescene.com_11-1" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  the song White Houses – in addition to who's to sayand a single on the album Private Radio – to tell her truth with Carl ton embodies ambition Harmonium. The song is about a girl who loses her virginity. Salient is that American television channels MTV and VH1 and several radio stations have censored White Houses, because, according to them "was too explicit content".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.quchronicle_12-0" len="185" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [12]  Carlton also got no support from her label to her own say in the promotion of Harmonium. It made her decide to leave A & M Records and looking to move to a different record label.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.slantmagazine.com_13-0" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13] ===Heroes & Thieves (2007)<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Although Vanessa Carlton Harmonium the opportunity to again be put under a "artist-friendly" record label, she decided to focus on the future and to promote new songs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.slantmagazine.com_13-1" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]  With Stephan Jenkins, now her ex-friend, and Linda Perry, with whom she had previously worked, did Carlton get started with a new album. This was under the label Inc. Records by producer Irv Gotti released in 2007 with Heroes & Thieves as the title.According to Carlton, this is her first album where the songs each a chapter of a story in which a "underlying thread" is processed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.cbsnews.com_4-1" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  of the eleven songs on the cd are two released as a single, to know Nolita Fairytale and Hands On Me. It is also The One in the song, old Stevie Nicks-Fleetwood-Maczangeres, which Carlton accompanied vocally. ===Rabbits on the Run (2011)<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Vanessa Carlton during occur August 2011<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">After the release of her third album some four years remained quiet around Vanessa Carlton. They needed time to come to their senses after years of sprint which Carlton from her discovery in her teens had deployed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vanessacarlton.com_14-0" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]  Confused by all sorts of decisions that it had taken, and disappointed in various ways, she began studying a variety of music: fromclassical music to reggae; just to observe and pay attention to it. Carlton had the suspicion that her next project a more instrumental character was going to get. A visit to England, however, stimulated her to write a personal lyrics, with which the song London was born.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vanessacarlton.com_14-1" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]  it turned out to be a first step of her new album that Rabbits on the Runwould come to be called. In New York she continued writing songs, which they themselves primarily was inspired by two books, namely Watership Down by Richard Adams andA Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkingphysics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vanessacarlton.com_14-2" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]  including Carousel, respectively note the only single from the band's fourth Studio album, and Tall Tales for Spring are these inspirations can be found. During the writing process more and more for what sound her eyes got Carlton new songs had to go get it. They enlisted the help of Steve Osborne (producer of, among others, Elbow, Doves and KT Tunstall). With him she added new characteristics to its music, such as a children's choir that the songs with a vocal background, and an analog recording technique that inflicts the music a classic tone. On 26 July 2011 was Carl ton Rabbits on the Run (also foreign to Watership Down) released under the record label Razor & Tie. It consists of ten songs and is also available on LP. Further brought Carlton on november 21, 2011 a ep titled Hear The Bells, which is an acoustic version of the song that also part of Rabbits on the Run. In addition, the ep to hear two Christmas songs as well as her hit A Thousand Miles, but then on acoustic mode. ===Private<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Carlton married on 27 december 2013 with singer and guitarist John McCauley.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15] ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Be Not Nobody (2002)
 * Harmonium (2004)
 * Heroes and Thieves (October 2007)
 * Rabbits On The Run (July 2011)