By Cynthia Charlene Greason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Michelle Jacquet Branch (born July 2, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. During the early 2000s, she released two top-selling albums: The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper. She won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals with Santana for their 2002 single, “The Game of Love“.
As a solo recording artist, she signed to Madonna‘s Maverick record label in early 2001, and released her debut album The Spirit Room later that year. The album contained the hit singles “Everywhere” and “All You Wanted” and was followed up with Hotel Paper in 2003. In 2005, she formed the country music duo the Wreckers with Jessica Harp, and produced the Grammy-nominated single “Leave the Pieces“. The Wreckers disbanded in 2007 to pursue their respective solo careers. Since then, she has released extended plays in 2010 and 2011, and a third solo album, Hopeless Romantic in 2017. Her fourth studio album, The Trouble with Fever, was released in 2022.
Branch has stated that her music has been influenced by The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith, Lisa Loeb, Joni Mitchell, Queen, Alanis Morissette, Dolores O’Riordan, Jewel, Fleetwood Mac and Cat Stevens. She also likes classical music and older country music. Branch mainly uses a Gibson Hummingbird after retiring her blue Taylor 614ce.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
A division of time and a girl’s name. (Use these clues to find the two words that, when combined, form the name of a flower.)
Answer: Daylily
Died
- Nostradamus (physician, astrologer) –
- Ernest Hemingway (writer) –
- Betty Grable (actress) –
- Jimmy Stewart (actor) –
- Mario Puzo (author) –
- Ernest Lehman (screenwriter) –
Born
- Sir Charles Tupper (6th Prime Minister of Canada) –
- Hermann Hesse (author) –
- Jean-Rene Lacoste (tennis player) –
- Thurgood Marshall (first African American justice of the Supreme Court) –
- Medgar Evers (civil rights leader) –
- Imelda Marcos (First Lady of the Philippines) –
- Richard Petty (race car driver) –
- Polly Holliday (actress) –
- Larry David (actor, writer, producer, & director) –
- Jose Canseco (baseball player) –
- Michelle Branch (musician) –
- Ashley Tisdale (actress) –
- Lindsay Lohan (actress) –
Events
- Morrill Act passed–
- Charles Guiteau shot and fatally wounded U.S. President James Garfield–
- The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed–
- Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator–
- Lake Washington Floating Bridge dedicated in Seattle, Washington–
- The Lawrence Welk Show made its television debut–
- Civil Rights Act signed into law–
- Steve Fossett became the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a balloon–
Weather
- An alligator was reported to have fallen from the sky at Charleston, S.C., on Anson Street during a thunderstorm–
- Northeast Texas was pelted with softball-size hail, and Dallas experienced wind gusts of 90 mph–
- 89-mph wind gust occurred in Lavon Dam, Texas–
- An F3 tornado touched down in the Kawacatoose First Nation community in Raymore, Saskatchewan–
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