Melody Gardot

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...  [read more]