Michelle Branch is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter and an actress, who is well known for her song, featuring Santana.

Michelle Branch Early Life, Education

Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch was born on , in Sedona, Arizona. She is the daughter of David Branch who is an Irish and mother Peggy Branch of Dutch-Indonesian and French descent. She has an older brother named David and a sister named Nicole.

Michelle started singing at an early age of . She was enrolled at  for voice lessons. She attended the  but was homeschooled for the last of her high school.

Professional Accomplishments & Awards

She self-produced her first album , in and contained songs that she had written when she was . The album was released under an independent record label.

Michelle was then signed to , where she produced her major-label debut, . The album was certified by the .

In , she collaborated with Santana, to produce , which won her a . Michelle then released in , her second album, which contained the single  also won her a Grammy nomination.

In she and her musician friend Jessica Harp collaborated to form . Together they released an album titled . They later split in to pursue their own solo careers. Her other album was released in .