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Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American soft rock/Piano pop singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for the Billboard top five, Grammy-nominated single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody which was released April 30, 2002, and certified platinum in the U.S.

Carlton's second album, Harmonium (released November 9, 2004), debuted at number thirty-three Read more...

She is of Scandinavian descent on her father's side, and of Russian Jewish descent on her mother's.Although she was not raised in any religion, she has referred to herself as "Jewish" and said she was "spiritual".[citation needed]

She has two younger siblings, a sister named Gwen, who is a student at George Mason University, and a brother named Edmund, who is a member of his school's acapella Read more...