Vanessa Carlton BiographyVanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody, which was released in 2002. Carlton's second album, Harmonium was released in 2004. Her third album, Heroes & Thieves, was released in 2007.Carlton was born in Milford, Pennsylvania, to Ed Carlton, a pilot, and Heidi, a pianist and school music teacher. Carlton is of Scandinavian descent on her father's side, and Russian Jewish descent on her mother's.[1] She has two younger siblings, a sister, Gwen and a brother, Edmund. Her interest in music began at an early age; after returning from Disneyland at the age of two, she played "It's a Small World" on the piano.
