Years active: 2005 - today
Born: 02-02-1985
Death Place: New Jersey, United States
Genre:
Jazz
,
Blues
Melody Gardot (born February 2, 1985) in New Jersey) is an American jazz singer, writer and musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was disabled at 19 after being struck by a car while riding her bicycle and became a musician after discovering music therapy. She has been influenced by such blues and jazz artists as Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin as well as Latin...  [
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