Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Carlton
Vanessa Lee Carltonis an American singer-songwriter. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York City bars and clubs while attending university. Three months after recording a demo with producer Peter Zizzo, she signed with A&M Records. She began recording her album, which was initially unsuccessful until Ron Fair took over...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth16 August 1980
CityMilford, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power
My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together
Every time I get up on stage it is almost like VH1 Storytellers. I'm telling the stories of the songs and I enjoy sharing that with people.
I still have my hands and I can still write songs. I still have my body and I can still dance. I owe God so much because things are going so well.
But my morn was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
I want to be making records for years and years, and I think to have major commercial success and maintain your artistic credibility is difficult.
Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
My room says that I was about 3, but it seems to be getting younger and younger to the point where I was, like, a fetus when I was playing.
I don't necessarily feel comfortable divulging the details of my life, but there is always a way to communicate to the people that are listening.
I mean ultimately I am the artist, so if I really felt strongly about something, Stephan would defer to me because it's my album.