It wasn’t until 1996 that she released her debut album, a collection of jazz numbers feturing some of New York City’s finest local performers. At age 16, Peyroux began touring throughout Europe with The Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band performing the usual standards. They passed around a hat, raking in their earnings throughout the day, and eventually let her join them. She started busking with a group of street musicians in Paris’ Latin Quarter. Their split when she was 13-years-old saw her move to Paris with her mother. Peyroux found herself in a new city, surrounded by the smooth beauty of the French language, and immediately fit right in. The Athens, Georgia jazz singer-songwriter was raised by hippie parents, the two of whom believed in eccentic education, and totted through Brooklyn and southern California.
Talent has never been defined by age, and for Madeleine Peyroux, that was especially true. It’s the mark of wunderkind at work, and Smith was just beginning to get tangled up in his own knotted ropes. The track was so bare that Van Sant asked to see an orchestral rendition for the film with help from Danny Elfman. The quiet acoustic guitar paired with his hushed vocals produced the type of pained artistry that later inspired Conor Oberst. Beside that Grammy-nominated song, however, lay another, equally sodden number: “Between The Bars”. “ Miss Misery” went on to become part of Gus Van Sant‘s Good Will Hunting soundtrack, launching him into a newfound success. On his third full-length, Either/Or, Elliott Smith released some of his darkest tracks, many of which match fairly well with the gritty bathroom mirror pasted on the album’s cover. Before he began working as the dark folk prodigy we know him as today, Smith was laying out the same whispery lyrics in Heatmiser, a four piece rock act that lasted two years before ending in 1993. Over the course of his 10-year-long solo career, he went on to pen songs around his depression, alcoholism, and love life. While Elliott Smith‘s cause of death is still debated–suicide makes sense, but so does his girlfriend murdering him–his talent never is. The singer-songwriter was born in Nebraska and raised in Texas, but spent the majority of his life residing in Portland where he honed his craft. The only problem is that awareness that deep is too harrowing to support on your own.
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