Michelle Featherstone

Michelle Featherstone is a British-American singer-songwriter . Born in Chester , England , and raised in Cambridge , England, Featherstone now lives in Hollywood, California . At the age of nine she began playing the piano and composing her own pieces of music. She has received awards from the Royal Academy of Music for piano and violin and the Bishops Award for her voice.

Career

Beginning

Featherstone originally had no plans to pursue a career in the music business. With a minor in art history and anthropology from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in West Chester, Pennsylvania , she eventually became the manager of the Walt Disney Tishman Collection of African Art, which she was not very happy about:

“It was heartbreaking in some ways for me because ... I had come from the Guggenheim where if somebody sneezed in the general vicinity of a painting ... a conservator was there with a little Q-tip ... and I was now working for a corporation ... that because it wasn't necessarily making them any money, they were a little bit more trepidatious in spending money on the collection ... it was frustrating mostly at times to work for them because of that reason. "

After about 18 months at Disney, Featherstone decided that "corporate America" ​​was not for her and decided to develop her musical roots while serving as a waitress in Southern California . In fact, it was during her work as a waitress that she played some songs on the piano while the actual musicians were on their break. Due to the positive reaction from the audience, it was clear to her that music was the path to follow in her life.

"It was the most bizarre experience ... everybody sat down and was quiet ... I played three songs and people were asking me where my album was ..."

success

In recent years, her songs have become more popular due to their use in films and television. Stay has been used in ABC's alias - The Agent , FOX's Wonderfalls, and CW's One Tree Hill, as well as in various independent film projects. Another song, Over You , found its use in Smallville and the newly recorded I'm There Too was used in the pilot of Aaron Spelling's drama Summerland Beach . Summerland Beach also used I Will Be Fine later in the season and All That I Want came in the pilot of NBC's Las Vegas . The song Careful was heard at the end of the How I Met Your Mother episode Reluctant Help . Last year Featherstone worked on various music projects in LA and the UK.

Use in film and television

• How I Met Your Mother used Featherstone's God Bless the Child in the 18th episode of the first season, The Decent and Careful in the 23rd episode of the fourth season, Reluctant Help .
• One Tree Hill used Michelle Featherstone's music in many episodes, including:
  • Stay (Season 1, Episode 21)
  • Looking For Love (Season 2, Episode 15)
  • Back of the Church (Season 2, Episode 17)
  • Sunday (Season 3, Episode 2)
  • Go On My Child (Season 3, Episode 14)
  • God Bless the Child (Season 3, Episode 16)
  • Coffee & Cigarettes (Season 3, Episode 21)
  • We Are Man and Wife (Season 3, Episode 22) - sung directly by Featherstone in the episode
  • Looking for Love (Season 5, Episode 6)
  • Running Down (Season 6, Episode 5)

• Smallville used Perfect in the Season 7 finale.
• Canon used We are Man and Wife in a 2007 TV commercial.
• Alias ​​- The agent used Stay in the fourth episode of season two.
• The Hills used 'Stay' in Season 2 of the MTV series.

Web links

• Official site (English)