Madeleine Peyroux

THE American jazz singer brought her languid and unassuming style – and 90 minutes of warmth – to a cold, windswept evening on the Gateshead quayside. Read More

SULTRY songstress Madeleine Peyroux, it's fair to say, has a history of erratic behaviour. Read More

Jazz-literate, pleasantly low-key blues/folk/country songs from Gallic-American songstress Peyroux, whose delivery is a pleasant, smoke-tinged bluesy drawl. Read More

Jazz-literate, pleasantly low-key blues/folk/country songs from Gallic-American songstress Peyroux, whose delivery is a pleasant, smoke-tinged bluesy drawl. Read More

Though her previous releases ( Half the Perfect World and Careless Love ) have featured a handful of her own songs, Peyroux is highly regarded as an interpreter who puts her jazzy, soul-drenched voice to material by writers like Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. Read More

There's a popular saying among aspiring wordsmiths that goes something like, "In order to become a good writer, you need to read good writers." Read More

Proceeds from the Benefit will go toward The City of Joy, a safe house and leadership community under construction in the Democratic Republic of Congo Work donated by renowned artists to be auctioned off at the benefit NEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The second annual Women of the Congo Benefit, hosted by a planning committee of women from New York, Connecticut and Long Island, will take place from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. on Tuesday October 20, 2009 at the W New York, 541 Lexington Avenue. Read More