Madeleine Peyroux

What draws me to Madeleine Peyroux is not the half-million copies of Careless Love but the path that got her there. A girl from Athens, Georgia who learned her craft busking on the streets of Paris carries something no conservatory can teach. Her smoky, unhurried phrasing inevitably invites Billie Holiday comparisons, yet I admire how she refuses to be a tribute act and quietly builds her own world. In an industry chasing trends, her commitment to vintage jazz and blues feels like a small act of defiance. She is, to me, the perfect voice for a rainy, reflective evening.

Name (English)

Madeleine Peyroux

Name (Japanese)

マデリン・ペルー

Reading

までりん・ぺるー

Born

April 18, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Origin

Athens, Georgia, United States

Occupation

singer / street artist / singer-songwriter / jazz musician / composer

Awards & achievements

• BBC Jazz Awards

• Official sitehttps://madeleinepeyroux.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/madeleinepeyroux/
• Xhttps://x.com/mpeyrouxmusic
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine%20Peyroux
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285444

Tags

• Georgia
• singer
• street artist
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.