- Will headline a spring college tour of 18 cities, with Gavin DeGraw, Joe Firstman, Michael Tolcher and Chris Grace, in support of her sophomore Maverick album, Hotel Paper. (January 15, 2004)
- Under doctors' orders, she has to drop 10 North American shows, but she will stay on the road, picking things up Friday (Nov. 21) in San Francisco. She will then play nine shows through a Dec. 15 gig in Tampa, Fla. (November 18, 2003)
- Will go opposite Monica in a pre-recorded performance competition that will air during halftime on Monday Night Football on ABC-TV on Monday (October 27) -- The Monday Night At The Mic feature consists of two pairs of football players and musicians that perform for one minute each and sit down for pre-and-post song interviews.
- Branch will perform a concert Wednesday for broadcast exclusively to AOL Broadband subscribers -- The invitation-only show at New York's intimate Bowery Ballroom will begin at 9 p.m. ET. (August 26, 2003)
- Norah Jones and Michelle Branch are among the artists appearing on the upcoming tribute album Remembering Patsy Cline -- The 12-track collection comes out September 9, one day after what would have been Cline's seventh-first birthday. (August 25, 2003)
- Her album Hotel Paper sold more than 150,000 copies its first week out. (July 12, 2003)
- UNLIKE some of pop's blonder, more flamboyant stars, Branch doesn't mind being the girl next door -- She's pretty, smart and laughs easily at music journalists as well as herself.
- Branch is constantly mistaken for her fellow female singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton. (June 19, 2003)
- Branch will release her sophomore album Hotel Paper on June 24. (June 10, 2003)
- Snippets of Branch's Are You Happy Now?, the first single from her upcoming album, Hotel Paper, are currently featured on TV commercials for the DAWSON'S CREEK series finale -- The two-hour finale of DAWSON'S CREEK will air on Wednesday (May 14) at 8 p.m. on the WB Network. (May 10, 2003)
- Branch, whose sophomore album Hotel Paper, is due June 24 on Maverick Records, will take to the road for a brief tour prior to the set's release -- Her tour starts May 14 in San Francisco and hits 14 major U.S. and Canadian markets through a June 4 date in Washington, D.C. (April 24, 2003)
- Branch - along with Sugar Ray, Sixpence None The Richer, and Ashanti - performed at the annual Bogart Tour For A Cure charity concert at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on Monday (November 6, 2002)
- Branch says her collaboration with Carlos Santana on The Game of Love was unlike any song she'd recorded - she admits she never sang somebody else's song, but when she went into the recording studio, Santana had already put his guitar track down on the song, making her feel like "there's so much at stake, I'm going to go in there and just sing my heart out and just cross my fingers. (November 20, 2002)
- Nickname: Meech, Chelle
- Is Dutch-Indonesian and French on her mother's side, and Irish on her father's side.
- Lists her musical influences as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Aerosmith, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, and CSNY (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young).
- Her album The Spirit Room went platinum.
- Was named after a Beatles' song.
- Was born 7 weeks premature.
Quotes- Asked how can a guy get her attention: "Well, you know that thing where you always want what you can't have? I like guys who are taken. I can't help it. It's the guy who's not paying attention to you. That just kills me."
- On her weird obsessions: "This is going to sound stupid, but I have a pirate fetish. It started when someone in my band hurt their eye and had to wear an eye patch. I realized that I always thought pirates were sexy."
- "People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert. We'll be on the tour bus, and me and my makeup artists will be watching porn. Everyone thinks about sex, so why are we pretending that we're not?"
- "With me, what you see is what you get."
- "Music has always been in me. When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch."
Awards- MTV Video Music Awards: Viewer's Choice, Everywhere (2002)
- Grammy Awards: Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, The Game Of Love (2002) - shared with Santana
- Grammy Awards: Viewer's Choice, Everywhere (2002)
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