Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American soft rock/pop singer, songwriter, and pianist of Russian and Scandinavian descent. She is best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from he . .   Expand    Wikipedia

Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American soft rock/pop singer, songwriter, and pianist of Russian and Scandinavian descent. She is best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody, which was released April 30, 2002, and certified platinum in the U.S. Carlton's second album, Harmonium (released November 9, 2004), debuted at number 33 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and had sold 179,000 copies as of February 2006, with the single "White Houses," peaking at 86 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. She subsequently parted company from her record label A&M.