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Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her debut album, Be Not Nobody (2002), released by A&M Records , received a platinum certification in the United States, and her debut single and signature song " A Thousand Miles " spent 41 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned three Grammy nominations.
Carlton wrote the song's piano riff in the summer of 1998 at her parents' house in Philadelphia; her mother, who had been listening to her, said, "Vanessa, that's a hit song." [4] Carlton was unable to finish the song because of a case of writer's block, and did not return to it for several months. While looking for a record label that would ...
Be Not Nobody is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, released on April 30, 2002, through A&M Records.As of late 2004 the album had sold 1.38 million copies in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan, [8] and Variety magazine reported in July 2003 that it had sold 2.3 million worldwide. [9]
Title Details Icon: Best of Vanessa Carlton: Release date: January 4, 2011; Label: A&M; Formats: CD, download; Double Live & Covers: Release date: November 23, 2018
Heroes & Thieves is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, released by The Inc. Records on October 9, 2007. [1] It is co-produced by Irv Gotti, Linda Perry and Third Eye Blind lead singer Stephan Jenkins, who produced Carlton's second album, Harmonium (2004), and Carlton co-wrote the tracks with Perry and Jenkins.
Carlton and Jenkins met and began a relationship in mid-2002, when she and rock band Third Eye Blind, of which Jenkins is lead singer, were on tour together. After seeing Carlton perform live, Jenkins entered her dressing room and expressed interest in producing her music, and according to Carlton they "decided very quickly, that we had the same vision for the album". [1]
[4] "White Houses" was the first song Carlton and Jenkins wrote together, and Lindsey Buckingham of the band Fleetwood Mac played acoustic guitar on the track after Jenkins met Buckingham, who was recording in the same building as Carlton, and invited him to listen to the song. Carlton said, "he just came in, played this great riff, recorded it ...