Vonda Shepard
b. 7 July 1963, New York City, New York, USA. Shepard relocated to California with her family as a child, and studied voice and piano from an early age. She began working in local clubs as a teenager, and before she was 20 had landed slots as a backing singer for Jackson Browne and Rickie Lee Jones (she has also worked with Al Jarreau, Julia Fordham, and Chaka Khan over the course of her career). Shepard signed a solo deal with Reprise Records in 1987, and two years later released an anodyne rock collection that muted her distinctive bluesy voice. Her much improved sophomore collection, The Radical Light, benefited from a more sympathetic production, but Shepard was dropped by Reprise shortly after its release. She retired to the Los Angeles club circuit to lick her wounds, building up a loyal following in the process and releasing an excellent, independently released album in 1996. Her big break came when producer David E. Kelley and his wife, Michelle Pfeiffer, spotted her at a club. Kelley was developing the television series Ally McBeal, and cast Shepard as the resident singer in the local bar frequented by the star of the show and her legal co-workers.
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Albums
- (2007) The Radical Light
- (2005) Vonda Shepard
- (1999) Heart and Soul: New Songs From Ally McBeal
- (1999) By 7:30
- (1998) Songs From Ally McBeal
- (1996) It's Good, Eve
- (1992) The Radical Light
Top Tracks
- Searchin' My Soul
- I Only Want to Be With You
- You Belong to Me
- Baby, Don't You Break My Heart Slow
- Tell Him
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