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Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American pop and rock singer, songwriter and pianist from Milford, Pennsylvania<\/a>. Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American pop and rock singer, songwriter and pianist from Milford, Pennsylvania. Three Grammy nominations, three studio albums, and a collection of hit songs has been the result of a fruitful career thus far for Vanessa Carlton, who first exploded onto the scene in 2002 with her stunning debut Be Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15979,35153],"tags":[35156,34230,34329],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-vanessa-carlton","tag-piano-pop","tag-pop-rock","tag-soft-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThree Grammy<\/a> nominations, three studio albums, and a collection of hit songs has been the result of a fruitful career thus far for Vanessa Carlton, who first exploded onto the scene in 2002 with her stunning debut Be Not Nobody<\/a>, and world-wide hit single \u201cA Thousand Miles.\u201d
\nVanessa Carlton first began playing the piano as a toddler, continuing on an artistic road with her attendance at the School of American Ballet in New York<\/a>, a path she would eventually abandon in favor of songwriting. She re-embraced the piano and began performing in bars and clubs across Manhattan. While studying at Columbia University<\/a>, Carlton was signed to Interscope Records<\/a>, but made her formal debut on A&M<\/a> under veteran producer Ron Fair.
\nHer debut album in April 2002, Be Not Nobody<\/a>, resonated with audiences of all ages world-wide, especially the hit piano single \u201cA Thousand Miles,\u201d which reached the Top 5 on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 Singles chart, #1 in Australia, and Top 10 in the UK. Carlton went on to earn 2003 Grammy nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist (\u201cA Thousand Miles\u201d). The album witnessed global success, reaching Gold status in over 10 countries, and Platinum status in Asian territories, such as Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Taiwan.
\nHer second album Harmonium<\/a> (2004), which yielded the single \u201cWhite Houses,\u201d continued to inspire an increasingly loyal global fan base and garnered some the best reviews of her career.
\nHer record release in 2007, Heroes & Thieves<\/a> \u201cmight be my first thematic record,\u201d Carlton says, adding that the songs reveal themselves like chapters in a book, one that fans can crack open (Vanessa has often explained during her live shows that the second single from \u201cHeroes & Thieves\u201d entitled \u201cHands On Me\u201d is the second chapter to the album). Paying homage to the area of Manhattan where most of its songs were written, the first single off of the 2007 record, appropriately dubbed \u201cNolita Fairytale,\u201d is a syncopated, upbeat piece that paints a dramatic musical landscape. \u201cThat song is really about finding joy in unexpected environments. How sometimes losing things makes you realize what you have, which is like a quasi fairytale,\u201d says Carlton. Heroes & Thieves was recorded in the San Francisco studio of Third Eye Blind founder Stephan Jenkins and the Los Angeles studio of producer\/songwriter Linda Perry.
\nMost recently, Vanessa has completed material for her fourth studio album, titled Rabbits on the Run<\/a>, which is scheduled for a June 21st, 2011 release. Material for this album was produced by Steve Osborne and was recorded in the UK at Peter Gabriel\u2019s well-renowned Real World Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"