Vanessa Carlton

Vanessa Carlton is a critically acclaimed American singer/songwriter, pianist, and actress whose career unfolded in unexpected ways after her early 2000s mainstream breakthrough. Her first single, the enduring piano-backed anthem "A Thousand Miles," gave Carlton a career-defining smash in 2002, becoming such a big hit that it threatened to overshadow the rest of her body of work. Indeed, "A Thousand Miles" turned out to be something of an outlier in Carlton's music. Although she would retain her melodic sense of craft, she gradually drifted away from mainstream music over the ...