Melody Gardot

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Melody Gardot is a musician and a Grammy-nominated jazz singer-songwriter. She was born in New Jersey in 1985, and brought up mainly by her grandparents. She studied fashion at the Community College of Philadelphia.

In 2003, Melody was out cycling when a driver who had driven through a red traffic light hit her. Melody suffered serious head injuries and a broken pelvis. So severe were her injuries that she had to lie flat in a hospital bed for 12 months. During this time, she had to relearn everyday tasks such as walking and cleaning her teeth. Melody has been left hypersensitive to light and sound, so she constantly wears sunglasses to protect her eyes. She has also been left with short-term and longer-term memory loss.

Melody found it difficult to communicate properly after the accident and was unable to remember the right words to express what she was feeling, so she began writing music, and is now an advocate of the use of music for therapy. She wrote songs and learned to hum, an activity that is thought to help the brain form new pathways. At last, melody was able to sing into a tape recorder.

She has been introduced to macrobiotics, and cooks for several hours a day, claiming that it relaxes her and allows her to sleep soundly. She has also become a Buddhist, giving away her furniture and cat, her only possessions now fitting into two suitcases.

Melody plays the guitar and piano, starting piano lessons at the age of nine. By the age of 16 she was playing piano in the bars of Philadelphia at the weekends on four-hour shifts. She would only play music that she liked, and that ranged from Duke Ellington to the Mamas and Papas and Radiohead. Melody Gardot gigs were as enjoyable for her as they were the audience, watching the enchanting singer.

She learnt to play the guitar while in hospital and began writing her own material. She included these songs in her repertoire and was soon spotted by the University of Philadelphia’s radio station, WXPN, the same medium that helped launch Norah Jones. WXPN helped Melody assemble a demo that Universal Records quickly picked up, knowing that Melody Gardot tickets would be popular.

Verve Records released her debut album, Worrisome Heart, in 2006. Producer Larry Klein began working with the singer after meeting her in New York in 2008, and the result was a second album, My One and Only Thrill, released in 2009.



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