Madeleine Peyroux


 

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www.madeleinepeyroux.com

"She phrases her pitch-perfect vocals superbly -- sliding into a target note here, taking a broken-chord approach there -- but never overdoes it. She somehow always manages to sound entirely natural, never forced; as if this were just her speaking voice set to music. The spare instrumentals produced a richly textured sound, but stopped short of overpowering the main attraction. That voice, a dusky alto, has been constantly, and more or less rightfully, compared to that of Billie Holiday."

- Lissa Kiernan