Madeleine Peyroux

On Tour

See all 24 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Madeleine Peyroux Radio, featuring artists like Madeleine Peyroux & William Galison, Stacey Kent, Melody Gardot, William Galison & Madeleine Peyroux and more…

• Search on Spotify

8,281,719 plays (595,891 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Madeleine Peyroux Ringtones to Cell

Buy

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

Athens, Georgia (1996 – present)

Madeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer who was born in 1974 in Athens, Georgia, USA, and raised in New York City and Paris, France. She is noted for her vocal style, which is highly reminiscent of Billie Holiday. Madeleine also has qualities similar to Ella Fitzgerald. Though Peyroux may remind some listeners of Holiday, there are differences, and she has her own sense of phrasing and interpretation.

Peyroux started singing at the age of fifteen, when she discovered street musicians in the Latin Quarter in Paris. She joined a group called the Riverboat Shufflers, first passing round the hat, and then singing. At sixteen she joined the The Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band, spending two years touring Europe performing songs by the likes of Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and others, which provided the basis for her first album, Dreamland.

Dreamland was released in 1996, and gained widespread attention. Time called it “the most exciting, involving vocal performance by a new singer this year”. Dreamland, is a brilliant recording, as Peyroux’s distinctive voice is not hindered by overly intricate arrangements. Most of the accompaniment on the record is light and sparse, the way it should be for a singer with such a unique voice. Peyroux soon found herself opening for Sarah McLachlan and Cesária Évora, and made appearances at jazz festivals and on the Lilith Fair tour.

Read more… Edit bio

Popular tags: jazz, female vocalists, blues, vocal jazz, singer-songwriter  See more

Share this artist:

• Tweet
• Send

Top Albums

• Careless Love
  Madeleine Peyroux

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.49
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $5.35
  • eBay Search
• Half The Perfect World
  Madeleine Peyroux

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.49
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• Bare Bones
  Madeleine Peyroux

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.49
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $6.73
  • eBay Search
• Dreamland
  Madeleine Peyroux

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.99
  • 7digital $8.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $4.00
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		Dance Me To The End Of Love			1,271
2		Don't Wait Too Long			887
3		J'Ai Deux Amours			663
4		Between The Bars			569
5		Don't Cry Baby			560
6		You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go			515
7		Careless Love			467
8		Lonesome Road			461
9		Weary Blues			438
10		No More			416
11		I'll Look Around			390
12		Smile			375
13		I'm All Right			364
14		Instead			337
15		This Is Heaven To Me			325

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more