Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch is an American singer,songwriter,and guitarist. During the early 2000s,she released two top-selling albums:The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper. She won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals with Santana for their 2002 single,"The Game of Love".
The Spirit Room is the major-label debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Michelle Branch,released by the Maverick Recording Company and Warner Bros. Records in the United States on August 14,2001. The album was recorded at Sunset Sound,Henson Recording Studios and Ananda Studios in Hollywood,California and mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Marcussen Mastering in Los Angeles,California.
Hotel Paper is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Michelle Branch. It was released on June 24,2003 through Maverick. The production on the album was handled by a variety of record producers such as Josh Abraham,Rick DePofi,John Leventhal,John Shanks &Greg Wells.
The Wreckers were an American country music duo formed in 2005 by Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp,both of whom had solo recordings before the duo's foundation. In 2006,the duo released its debut album Stand Still,Look Pretty,which produced a number one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in its lead-off single "Leave the Pieces". The album accounted for a Top Ten hit on the same chart in "My,Oh My" as well. After its release,both Branch and Harp returned to being solo singers. Harp has since had Top 40 country success of her own with the single "Boy Like Me".
All That I Am is the twentieth studio album by Santana and follow-up to the band's 2002 Shaman. It was released on October 31,2005 in most of the world and a day later in the United States. All That I Am follows the format of his previous two studio releases,consisting primarily of collaborations with other artists. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200.
"Everywhere" is a song by American singer-songwriter Michelle Branch. It was written by Branch and its producer,John Shanks,for her second album and major-label debut,The Spirit Room (2001). The song was released in July 2001 by Maverick Records as Branch's debut single. "Everywhere" is an upbeat pop rock song with lyrics describing the early stages of love wherein the narrator is constantly reminded of their partner. The song's chorus was named the 77th greatest of the 21st century by Billboard in 2017.
Jessica Leigh Harp is an American songwriter and former country artist from Kansas City,Missouri. Between 2005 and 2007,Harp and Michelle Branch recorded and performed as The Wreckers,a duo that topped the country charts in 2006 with the Grammy-nominated "Leave the Pieces." After The Wreckers disbanded,Harp began a solo career on Warner Bros. Records,the same label to which The Wreckers were signed. Her solo second album single,"Boy Like Me," debuted in March 2009 and was a Top 30 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It was followed by her second album,A Woman Needs,in March 2010.
"All You Wanted" is a song by American singer-songwriter Michelle Branch,released as the second single from her debut album,The Spirit Room (2001). Written by Branch and produced by John Shanks,the song was released in the United States by Maverick Records on January 7,2002.
Stand Still,Look Pretty is the only studio album by the Wreckers,a country pop duo consisting of solo artists Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp. It was released in the United States on May 23,2006 and has been released in other countries.
"Leave the Pieces" is a song written by Jennifer Hanson and Billy Austin,and recorded by American country music duo The Wreckers for their debut album Stand Still,Look Pretty for which it served as lead single with a February 7,2006 release. Though it was the first single from their first album,it was The Wreckers' third single overall:they had released two singles in 2005,"The Good Kind",which peaked at #115,and "I'm Feeling You",in collaboration with Santana,which peaked at #55.
"Are You Happy Now?" is a song by American singer Michelle Branch,released as the lead single from her second studio album,Hotel Paper (2003),on May 19,2003. The single contains a non-album single called "Wanting Out" and a live acoustic version of the song "Hotel Paper" as its B-sides.
"My,Oh My" is a song written by Wayne Kirkpatrick,Josh Leo,and co-written and recorded by American country music duo The Wreckers. It was released in September 2006 as the second single from their debut album Stand Still,Look Pretty.
"The Game of Love" is a song by American rock band Santana from their 18th studio album,Shaman (2002). The vocal performance on the song is by Michelle Branch. It was composed by Gregg Alexander and Rick Nowels. The song was released as a single on September 23,2002,and won a Grammy Award for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals",as well as peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song also reached the top 10 in Canada,New Zealand,and six European countries.
"Goodbye to You" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Michelle Branch for her debut studio album,The Spirit Room (2001). It was released by Maverick Records as the album's third and final single on July 8,2002. The song reached number 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 32 in New Zealand.
American singer-songwriter Michelle Branch has released five studio albums,one video album,two extended plays,and twelve singles. She released her debut album,Broken Bracelet,through the independent label imprint Twin Dragon Records in 2000 before signing a recording contract with Maverick Records the following year. In August 2001,Branch released her second studio album and major-label debut,The Spirit Room. It peaked at number twenty-eight on the Billboard 200 and featured three Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100,including the top 10 hit "All You Wanted" and her debut single,"Everywhere",which entered the top 20 of multiple international record charts. The album has been certified 2×Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling over two million copies in the United States.
"Breathe" is a song by American singer Michelle Branch. It was released on September 22,2003,in the United States as the second single from her second studio album,Hotel Paper (2003). The song peaked at No. 36 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 2003 and reached number 45 in Australia
"Why Don't You &I" is a song by American rock band Santana. The song was written by Chad Kroeger and recorded for Santana's 2002 album Shaman,on the Arista record label. It was re-recorded in 2003 with vocals by Alex Band of the Calling and released as the third single in the United States on June 16,2003. Both versions of the single charted in the US while the Alex Band version peaked at number 21 in New Zealand. According to Kroeger when recording for his version of the song,he recorded his vocals while on tour with Nickelback and used panty hose as a pop filter when recording it.
Maverick was an American entertainment company founded in 1992 by Madonna,Frederick DeMann,and Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev,and formerly owned and operated by Warner Music Group. It included a record label,a film production company,book publishing,music publishing,a Latin record division,and a television production company. The first releases for the company were Madonna's 1992 coffee table publication Sex and her studio album Erotica,which were released simultaneously to great controversy as well as success. Journalist and biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli considered the existence of Maverick Records to be an "anomaly",as Madonna became one of the first female artists to have a real label and one of the few women to run her own entertainment company.
"Sooner or Later" is a song written by John Shanks,Hillary Lindsey,and co-written and recorded by American artist Michelle Branch. It was released as the lead-off single to her six-song solo country EP,Everything Comes and Goes. "Sooner or Later" was released as a digital download on June 29,2009 and later sent to country radio on August 11,2009. This is Branch's first country single,and her first release since The Wreckers,a country duo consisting of Branch and Jessica Harp,was placed on hold in favor of solo careers for both members.
Hopeless Romantic is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Michelle Branch. It was released on April 7,2017,by Verve Records. Co-written and co-produced by Patrick Carney,the album is Branch's first release with Verve after leaving her previous label,Reprise Records,and having the original album material scrapped. Hopeless Romantic is also Branch's first full-length album to be released since Hotel Paper (2003),and first overall release since the Everything Comes and Goes EP in 2010.
