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| From | "Bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Has Ms Peyroux had enough? |
| Date | Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:40:32 -0700 |
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Hunt on for missing singer Peyroux
(Thursday August 18, 2005 08:01 PM)
A record label is hiring a private detective because one
of its artists - jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux - has gone missing.
Peyroux's album Careless Love is set to crash into the top
10 on Sunday.
But the singer, whose voice has been compared to Billie Holiday's,
has disappeared and not turned up for any promotional work,
according to Universal Classics.
This is not the first time Peyroux has done a disappearing act - she
walked away to spend seven years busking on the streets of Paris
after the launch of her debut album, Dreamland.
Peyroux, who was born in Georgia in the US, returned to the music
scene but signed up with a small independent label, Rounder Records,
which has since been involved in a licensing deal with Universal Music.
The singer has played three concerts in the UK and her album has
sold over 150,000 copies to date.
Her track Don't Cry Baby was used in a million pound advertising
campaign by beauty company Simple and her album has become
Starbucks' UK best-seller.
A spokeswoman at Universal said: "The enigmatic singer who tasted
early success should be overjoyed with the album's chart position,
but she has now returned to America and is proving impossible to
track down.
"Anxious record company bosses and her management company
have been trying to contact her for nearly a week to no avail. She
has simply disappeared. Universal have gone to great lengths to
protect Madeleine from burnout through too much promotional
work.
"But it would seem that despite these efforts Ms Peyroux has had
enough. She is that rare thing, an artist more interested in her music
than in the glitz and glamour of showbusiness. This is one of those
classic cases that proves that no matter what, talent will always out."
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