submit urlsubmit rss feedadd directoryMobile Arts Directory

article

Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch (born July 2 1983) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. She made her debut in 2000, and released the platinum-selling albums The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper in subsequent years. In 2004, she formed the band The Wreckers with fellow musician Jessica Harp.

Biography


Early life and solo career

Branch was born seven weeks premature in Phoenix, Arizona, and was named after The Beatles' song "Michelle". Her father is of Irish ancestry and her mother is of Dutch, Indonesian (Javanese), and French ancestry. She has an older half-brother, David, and a younger sister, Nicole.

Branch first wanted to write songs as soon as she hit her teens, beginning to write shortly after that. She received a guitar for her fourteenth birthday, and later signed up for vocal classes. She focused on the arts during high school, and was writing songs extensively. She attended Red Rock High School in Sedona but with the support of her parents, decided to continue her high school education through homeschooling, which allowed her to follow her dreams of becoming a singer-songwriter. She had begged her parents for years to allow her to leave regular high school, and one night at dinner she asked why she had to go back to school, and to her surprise, her father replied with, "Yeah, why does she?" She played clubs for years and released her debut album Broken Bracelet independently in 2000.

More on [ Michelle Branch ]


directory of related categories

 
directory of related topics

By Release :: Reviews

 
Hotel_Paper RSS feed
Hotel Paper - Twitter Search

RT @mcr4life95: throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
SillyGreenOreos (Ariel Christenson) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:29:51 -0000
RT @mcr4life95: throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
RT @mcr4life95: throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
Anna_Delaney (Anna Delaney) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:28:34 -0000
RT @mcr4life95: throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
RT @mcr4life95 throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
Mcrmygirl25 (Tamara/Tammy) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:27:25 -0000
RT @mcr4life95 throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
RT @mcr4life95: throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
mcrlife (Deedee) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:26:52 -0000
RT @mcr4life95: throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
mcr4life95 (Julianna DiPaula) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:26:42 -0000
throwing toliet paper out your hotel window #itsaMCRthing
Paper Moon is one of my most favorite movies of all time. And one of the only movies available in English at my hotel. Fancy that.
kidkrull (Kendra Krull) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:45:49 -0000
Paper Moon is one of my most favorite movies of all time. And one of the only movies available in English at my hotel. Fancy that.

 
Subscribe to Hotel_Paper RSS feed

directory of related sites

500 Bunny on a Stick: Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper - Bunny Hopkins' review: an awesome album

Jason's Reviews: Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper - Jason Johnson's review: A lot of the tracks sound similar to one another and have a tendency to just run together.

Music-Critic.com: Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper - Jonathan Baran's review: If there is one word that can sum up the entirety of Hotel Paper it is 'bland'.

Plugged In: Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper - Bob Waliszewski reviews the pro-social and objectionable content of the album.
Meta Description: [ Hotel Paper ]

PopMatters: Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper - Adrien Begrand's review: has a few pleasant moments ... but hopefully Branch is capable of something much better than this
Meta Description: [ Michelle Branch, Hotel Paper (Maverick), review by Adrien Begrand., PopMatters . . . the magazine of global culture. ]

UKMIX: Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper - Review: Michelle's done a good job at solidifying her status as a serious singer/songwriter with a knack for creating some fine tunes.

Hotel_Paper related videos
Hotel Paper- Michelle Branch
Next Video
Hotel_Paper related videos

 

HOMEADVERTISINGABOUT US

articlesartsbusinesscomputersgameshealthhospitalshomekids & teensnewsmobilephysiciansrecreationreferenceregionalscienceshoppingsocietysportsworld


Submit a Site About Become an Editor