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Origin
  
Role
  
Singer · vondashepard.com

Genres
  
Rock, acoustic

Spouse
  
Mitchell Froom (m. 2004)

Years active
  
1987–present

TV shows
  
Name
  
Vonda Shepard


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Born
  
July 7, 1963 (age 61) New York, U.S. (
1963-07-07
)

Occupation(s)
  
Singer, pianist, songwriter, actress

Instruments
  
Vocals, piano, guitar, bass

Labels
  
Reprise/Warner Bros. Records550 Music/Epic/SME RecordsVesperAlley Records

Albums
  
Songs from Ally McBeal, Heart and Soul: New Songs fro, It's Good Eve, Live ‑ A Retrospective, By 7:30

Profiles

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Vonda Shepard (born July 7, 1963) is an American pop/rock singer, songwriter, and actress. She appeared, in that last capacity, as a regular in the television show Ally McBeal, as a resident performer in the bar where the show's characters drank after work. Her version of Kay Starr’s Christmas classic "(Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man with the Bag," after it was featured on a season 4 episode of Ally McBeal, became a popular holiday song. She plays piano, bass, and guitar.

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Life and career

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Vonda Shepard was born in New York City. Her family relocated to California when she was a child. She played piano from an early age. Her father is Richmond Shepard, a mime and improvisational actor. Vonda has three sisters.

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After performing as a backing singer for many years she was eventually given her own recording contract. Shepard's first chart appearance was in 1987, when she recorded a duet with Dan Hill entitled "Can't We Try." Before this, she had tried out for the part of Michael J. Fox's sister in Light of Day, but she lost the part to Joan Jett. She was also poised to sing on Peter Cetera's duet "The Next Time I Fall," but he picked Amy Grant instead. She released her first self-titled album in 1989, but with little fanfare. The album did yield one chart single, "Don't Cry Ilene," a middle-tempo piano-driven jazz-R&B flavored song dealing with the break-up of a relationship between a black woman and a white man, arising from adult peer pressure. The track is sung from the perspective of the woman's white female friend, who harbors a desire to have the man for herself, but keeps 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 12 weeks.

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After her third album, Shepard was signed up to appear on Ally McBeal after the show's creator, former attorney David E. Kelley, spotted her. While on the show she recorded two full soundtrack albums and was featured on two other Ally McBeal compilations. The songs that Shepard recorded for the Ally McBeal soundtrack albums were mainly covers of old songs with lyrics that paralleled what was happening in the title character's life on-screen. However, "Searchin' My Soul," which became the album's biggest hit single after Kelley chose it for the show's titles theme, was an original selection jointly written and composed by Shepard and Paul Howard Gordon. Since her appearances in the show, Shepard has released two more studio albums and a live album.

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Shepard married music producer Mitchell Froom in 2004; they had their first child in 2006. She is also the stepmother to Froom's daughter, Ruby, from his marriage to Suzanne Vega.

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Shepard provided vocals for "I Need You," whose music had been composed by James Newton Howard, for the 2010 film Love & Other Drugs, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.

Albums

  • 1989 Vonda Shepard
  • 1992 The Radical Light
  • 1995-96 Vonda sang with Jackson Browne on tour in 1995, and after the release of It’s Good, Eve, Jackson asked Vonda to open for him, as well as sing with him on the 1996 tour.
  • 1996 It's Good, Eve
  • 1997-2002 joined Ally McBeal as the “musical voice” and Music Producer of over 500 songs, working with artists Al Green, Gladys Knight, Sting, Robert Downey, Jr., Jon Bon Jovi, Randy Newman, Chubby Checker, Barry Manilow, and many others. Vonda, along with the cast, won two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors’ Guild awards, and a Billboard award for selling the most TV soundtrack records in history.
  • 1998 Songs from Ally McBeal
  • 1999 By 7:30
  • 1999 Heart and Soul: New Songs from Ally McBeal
  • 2000 Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas
  • 2001 For Once in my Life
  • 2001 (circa) Vonda was a featured artist with The Funk Brothers on the Standing In The Shadows of Motown tour.
  • 2002 Chinatown
  • 2004 Live: A Retrospective
  • 2008 From the Sun
  • 2010 From the Sun Tour: Live in San Javier
  • 2011 Solo
  • 2015 Rookie
  • Compilation soundtracks

  • Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas 2000 US: 550 Music/Epic/SME Records / UK: Epic Records
  • Ally McBeal: For Once in My Life Soundtrack 2001 US: 550 Music/Epic/SME Records / UK: Epic Records
  • The Best of Ally McBeal – The Songs of Vonda Shepard / Sony Legacy / October 6, 2009
  • References

    Vonda Shepard Wikipedia


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