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 Michelle Branch Trivia
- Ethnicity: Dutch, Indonesian, French, and Irish.
- She took private voice lessons at Northern Arizona University
- She attended Red Rock High School
- Is Dutch-Indonesian and French on her mother's side, and Irish on her father's side. She lists her musical influences as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Aerosmith, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, and CSNY (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young).
- Her album "The Spirit Room" went platinum.
- She won the viewer's choice award for her song 'Everywhere' at the 2002 VMA
- Has relocated to Los Angeles, and is in the early stages of recording her second album. [December 2002]
- Received 2 Grammy nominations for Best New Artist & Best Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ('The Game Of Love' with Santana)
- Won the 2003 Pop Collaboration with Vocals Grammy for her collaboration with Santana on the song "The Game of Love".
- Was named after a Beatles' song
- Was born 7 weeks premature
- At the time of her birth, Michelle's family were living in Flaggstaff, Arizona, but seeing as it was 4th of July weekend, there was no room at the hospital so her mum had to be flown to Phoenix, where she gave birth. On the way, there was no room in the aeroplane for her father so he had to drive and when he was pulled over for speeding, explaining his wife was having a baby, the policeman thought he was insane because she wasn't in the backseat of the car.
- Her laptop - which is worth $4,500 and her cellphone, i-Pod, cash and credit cards were stolen from her hotel room at the Aladdin in Las Vegas whilst she was attending the Radio Music Awards. Nelly also had $1million worth of jewlery stolen from the same hotel, on the same night, by the same people. All items have yet to be recovered. [October 27th 2003]
- Nominated for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" for her song "Are You Happy Now?" at the Grammy Awards 2004. [December 4th 2003]
- Caused an outrage after posing topless for the January 2004 cover of adult magazine "Maxim".
- Her second single, "Breathe", from "Hotel Paper" flopped after her Maxim spread.
- Second album "Hotel Paper" was a critical flop, but went straight in at #2 in the US and since it's June 24th 2003 release it has gone platinum.
- There is a 19 year age gap between Michelle and her bassist-husband Teddy Landau (b. 1964) - who has been touring with her since May 2003.
- Plays the cello, guitar, accordian, drums and piano
- Learned to speak French from her younger sister
- Picked as #20 for 'Maxim' top 100 list for 2004
- Has bought a house in Hollywood, California, USA with 40 year old boyfriend Teddy Landau. [2004]
- Her record label, Maverick, refused to pay for a video for her third single from "Hotel Paper", "Til I Get Over You", and the song was never released. [April 2004]
- Her brother, David, is actually her half-brother from one of her father's previous relationships and works as her assistant tour manager.
- Her father runs the Merchandise section of her official website.
- Weighed only 3 lbs., 11 oz. at her birth.
- Currently has her own line of lipsticks and nail polish at Flirt Cosmetics. The products will be named after songs from her sophomore album, "Hotel Paper".
- Uses Taylor and Gibson guitars
- Is collaborating with best friend/fellow musician Jessica Harp on her next project. The two have formed a band which was recently called The Wreckers. They were not able to use the name, because a band in Canada was also called "The Wreckers". The band is currently searching for a new name. Michelle calls the new project with her friend a "mix of country and folk".
- Shares a birthday with Lindsay Lohan.
- Is friends with Kelly Osbourne.
- One of her favorite hobbies is photography.
- Favorite city is Moab, Utah.
- Has two cats, Gibson and Winky.
- Big fan of Aimee Mann and Lisa Loeb.
- Said in Us Weekly that her close family knew about her engagment to Teddy Landau before she got married.
- Customized her wedding dress.
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