In her publicity photos, 23-year-old singer-songwriter Melody Gardot is usually seen wearing a pair of dark sunglasses that one initially assumes are a part of a well-cultivated look. In fact, Gardot ...

Sometimes life just has the overwhelming ability to throw some rough tests your way, and a person can find oneself dealing in silence with the aching certainty of an unfinished journey, where life ...

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Melody Gardot: ‘What is the problem with an ass? It’s not a weapon’ The jazz singer meets Craig McLean at a Paris cafe to talk about her new album, lockdown blues, media negativity and posing naked ...

FORGET about the obvious quality of the writing, the subtle charms of the smoky tunes and the intimacy of the hushed vocals on her second album, My One And Only Thrill - Melody Gardot should not be ...

While Melody Gardot writes quiet, jazzy ache-filled songs about loss and longing, there’s something exhilarating about listening to her ravishing debut album, “Worrisome Heart” (Universal/Verve).

Many of us are missing the joys of live performance: concerts, plays, clubs, rock bands, opera. Artists are suffering too, from the loss of jobs, livelihoods, and joy. But the pandemic has also ...

Melody Gardot has good reason to punctuate everything she does these days with lavish Hollywood strings. Just five years after she was nearly killed by a hit-and-run driver, the 24-year-old ...

A carefully controlled macrobiotic diet helped, too. What a difference a decade makes. The Melody Gardot I meet in a bistro in the 16th arrondissement in Paris is a wise-cracking, chic, olive-green ...