Vanessa Carlton

American singer-songwriter and pianist

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2025 Ranked by Billboard among the best female artists of the 21st century.
2024 Created the score for the upcoming film 'Wish You Were Here' with her husband John Joseph McCauley III, directed by her friend Julia Stiles, set for release in January 2025.
2023 Went viral when puppeteer Ben Howard performed a puppet version of her hit song 'A Thousand Miles' at one of her concerts.
2021 Carlton moved from Nashville to Warwick, Rhode Island with her family.
January 2021 Revealed plans to re-release 'Love is an Art' in March with new songs and demo recordings.
October 16 2020 Released 'Piano Songs' album through Universal Music, available in CD and download formats.
March 27 2020 Released her sixth album 'Love is an Art'.
June 27 2019 Made her Broadway debut in the Carole King musical 'Beautiful'.
May 2019 Announced her Broadway debut in the Carole King musical 'Beautiful', set to perform for a limited season.
May 27 2019 Announced her sixth album 'Love is an Art', produced by Dave Fridmann, via Instagram.
November 23 2018 Released a triple vinyl collection featuring her covers EP, Liberman Live, and Earlier Things Live EPs.
August 10 2018 Released the sixth and final cover song, Lucinda Williams' 'Lonely Girls'.
July 20 2018 Released the fifth cover song, Elliott Smith's 'Needle in the Hay'.
June 15 2018 Released the fourth cover song, Fred Neil's 'Little Bit of Rain'.
May 18 2018 Released the third cover song, Neil Young's 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart'.
April 20 2018 Released the second cover song, a version of Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams'.
March 23 2018 Carlton began her monthly cover song project, releasing the first cover, Robyn's 'Call Your Girlfriend'.
February 17 2017 Vanessa Carlton released a live album titled 'Earlier Things Live' via her own Victor Music label, featuring six songs from pre-Liberman albums performed during the 2015-2016 Liberman tour.
2016 Released the single 'Nothing Where Something Used to Be' from the album 'Liberman'
October 21 2016 Carlton released Liberman Live, an album of eight live tracks recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.
October 23 2015 Liberman album was released.
August 27 2015 Official lyric video for 'Willows' premiered on USA Today.
August 3 2015 Official music video for 'Blue Pool' premiered on Southern Living.
July 24 2015 Blue Pool EP was released digitally, which was part of the deluxe version of the Liberman album.
June 15 2015 Carlton released the song 'Blue Pool' through Nylon magazine's website.
April 20 2015 Carlton signed with Dine Alone Records to release Liberman in October 2015.
January 13 2015 Carlton gave birth to her daughter with John McCauley.
2014 Vanessa Carlton's song 'Carousel' was recorded by Stevie Nicks for her album '24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault'
June 26 2014 Carlton announced via Facebook the delay of her album Liberman until summer 2015 due to her pregnancy.
June 11 2014 In a CBS News interview, Carlton described her upcoming Liberman album as 'lush, trippy and beautiful'.
April 11 2014 Carlton reported that the Liberman album was being mastered.
February 28 2014 Carlton announced completion of a ten-track album titled Liberman.
2013 Carlton went on a small tour, teasing new songs including 'Willows', 'House Of Seven Swords', 'A Matter Of Time', 'Take It Easy', and 'Unlock The Lock'.
December 27 2013 Carlton married John McCauley in a ceremony officiated by Stevie Nicks.
November 2013 Carlton experienced an ectopic pregnancy, which resulted in a ruptured tube and internal bleeding, requiring surgery and removal of her entire right fallopian tube.
October 9 2013 During a live performance in Bay Shore, New York, Carlton announced her first pregnancy with fiancĂ© John McCauley.
2012 Vanessa Carlton returned to Real World Studios to begin work on a new album with a theme of euphoria.
June 7 2012 Released the music video for 'Hear the Bells', which Carlton described as her most revealing video to date.
2011 Vanessa Carlton released a cover of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" for the 2011 Paste Magazine Christmas Sampler
November 21 2011 Released her holiday EP 'Hear the Bells', which included acoustic versions of 'Hear the Bells' and 'A Thousand Miles'.
July 26 2011 Released her fourth studio album 'Rabbits on the Run' under Razor & Tie record label, which was critically praised for its personal subject material and recorded at Real World Studios in Box, England.
May 3 2011 Released the first single 'Carousel' from her 'Rabbits on the Run' album.
January 4 2011 Released 'Icon: Best of Vanessa Carlton' compilation album through A&M, available in CD and download formats.
June 19 2010 Carlton publicly came out as bisexual while headlining Nashville Pride, stating to the audience, 'I've never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman.'

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