Vonda Shepard
Vonda Shepard was born in New York City, New York, United States on July 7th, 1963 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 60, Vonda Shepard biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Vonda Shepard (born July 7, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
She appeared in Ally McBeal's television series as a resident performer in the bar where the show's characters drank after work.
After being featured on a season 4 episode of Ally McBeal, Kay Starr's Christmas hit "Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man with the Bag" became a common holiday song.
She plays piano, bass, and guitar.
Life and career
In 1963, Vonda Shepard was born in New York City. When she was a child, her family moved to California. She began playing piano at an early age. Richmond Shepard, a mime and improvisational actress, was her father. She has three siblings.
Vonda has released 15 albums, including eight solo albums, three live albums, and four albums for Ally McBeal.
She has worked on keyboards and performed with Jackson Browne, Al Jarreau, and Rickie Lee Jones throughout her career.
Vonda has a following of over 12 million albums. She has received two Golden Globes, two Emmy awards, two TV Actors Guild prizes, and the Billboard award for selling the most television soundtrack albums in history.
Vonda is on tour around the world, performing her original material and songs from her days on Ally McBeal. Rookie is her latest album.
She began performing as a back-up singer for many years before finding her own recording deal. Vonda's first chart appearance was in 1987, when she sang "Can't We Try" alongside Dan Hill. She had applied for Michael J's name before this. In Light of Day, Fox's sister appeared on Screen, but she was dissatisfied with Joan Jett's performance. She had been set to perform on Peter Cetera's "The Next Time I Fall" but instead she chose Amy Grant. In 1989, she released her first self-titled album, but with little fanfare. One chart single, "Don't Cry Ilene," a middle-tempo piano-driven jazz-R&B flavored song about a woman's friendship with a white man as a result of adult peer pressure, was released on the album. The woman's white female friend, who has a hankering to have the man for herself, but holds her distance out of respect for her friend. The song peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart and stayed on the charts for a year.
Vonda was signed to appear on Ally McBeal after the show's producer, former prosecutor David E. Kelley, noticed her performing in a nightclub. While on the show, she released two complete soundtrack albums and was also included on two other Ally McBeal compilations. Shepard's songs on the Ally McBeal soundtrack albums were mostly covers of old songs with lyrics that related to what was going on in the title character's life on film. However, "Finding My Soul," the album's first hit song after Kelley selected it for the show's titles theme, was "Searchin' My Soul." Vonda and Paul Howard Gordon's joint creation of the song was an original selection jointly written and composed.
Mitchell Froom, a musician, married her in 2004; they had their first child in 2006. Ruby, Froom's daughter, is also the stepmother, according to Suzanne Vega's marriage.
She sang of "I Need You" (James Newton Howard's music for the 2010 film Love & Other Drugs, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, and Anne Hathaway sang of "I Need You."