Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980 in Milford, Pennsylvania) is a Jewish American pop singer, songwriter, and pianist most known for the hit "A Thousand Miles".

Carlton presently lives around San Francisco with her producer-boyfriend, Stephan Jenkins (lead singer of Third Eye Blind).

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Early life
Carlton began swimming a piano as a toddler. Fallowing giving from either Disneyland at the age of 2, Carlton played "It's A Small World" on the piano. This event inspired Carlton's mother to expose Carlton to various definitive composers like Mozart and Eric Satie. She attend ballet school in New York City beginning at age 12. the stress & rigid step by step videos in the ballet lessons proved bay for her, & she chose does'nt to be a ballerina after graduating from a academy. She attended Columbia University & performed in blocks and clubs completely above Manhattan. Carlton met Peter Zizzo at the signer-songwriter circle & two or three months late, Zizzo invited Carlton to his studio to lead off recording the demonstration by owning instruments accompany Carlton's piano & vocals. 3 months when recording a demonstration tape, Carlton was signed onto Interscope Records in which she began recording a album Rinse, which was never released. Rinse out has 12 tracks, including "A Thousand Miles" (which was coroneted "Interlude" in the album), by using two or three songs that don't come out on her debut album, Be Not Nobody. A tracks divided between them albums come otherwise produced. Occasionally of the tracks involved lyrical changes from either their Exist as Non Cipher counterpart, virtually all notably "Ordinary Day", which on the Rinse out album, experienced a "divide-and-conquer" lyrics. Rinse off too contained songs like "Superhero" & "All I Ask".

Professional career
Carlton's debut Video, Exist as Non Cipher, was discharged in April 30, 2002. It involved a hit single "A Thousand Miles" and a successful watch-higher lone, "Ordinary Day". Carlton besides provided backup vocals for the Counting Crows' cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi." Carlton's third lone from either "Be Not Nobody" was "Pretty Baby".

Carlton's 2nd album, Harmonium, was released in November 9, 2004. A foremost only was "White Houses". Organ debuted at total 33 on the Billboard album charts, & each album & individual were considered commercial failures. Reed organ likewise suffered from either delays in the U.S. Carlton's record label denied Carlton another individual from either Organ.

Less than 2 months prior to a Reed organ tour began, she appeared in ''Punk'd after being tricked by Ashton Kutcher during a rehearsal for an appearance on The Tonight Show.

In the period of her Reed organ'' tour, Carlton debuted ternary fresh songs June 14, 2005 at The Front room inside Up to date York City: "Put Your Hands On Me", "This Time", & "The One". When you took tour using rock icon Stevie Nicks, Carlton has also debuted a song "Best Behavior".

Inside the post in her official places's forum, Carlton suggested that she would become releasing the third album early around 2006, although she says "most people will know it as my second!" imputable the perceived deficiency of commitment to Reed organ (or even indeed any artistic empathy) at her todays label. Her recent collaboration using a Italian rock & blues singer Zucchero along with Hayle Ecker on violin for the song "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime" is gaining popularity when a album is climbing swell around charts

Discography
Albums
Be Not Nobody (2002) #5 U.S. (atomic number 78), #7 UK Harmonium (2004) #33 U.S. (200,000 copies)

Singles
'From either Exist as Non Nonentity: 2002 "A Thousand Miles" #5 U.S., #6 UK 2002 "Ordinary Day" #30 U.S., #53 UK 2002 "Pretty Baby" (there are no chart data)

Guest appearance in Films About Ghosts (Counting Crows album): 2003 "Big Yellow Taxi" (Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton) #42 U.S., #16 UK

From either Organ:' 2004 "White Houses" #86 U.S.