Record collector / DJ / Broadcaster / Producer / Brownswood Recordings boss / occasional remixer

To me, music is fluid architecture through which we can be transported back in time by melodies, memories and feelings or into the future of dreams yet to come true.
Performing practically since before I could talk, I have experience spanning nearly three decades having been reared in performing arts schools from a very young age, learning piano since the age of four and completing a Master of Music degree in Jazz Performance.
I have had the opportunity and pleasure to work alongside some amazing artists... (Outkast, Duran Duran, Ennio Morricone, Take That, Kodaline, The Dubliners, Mika, Reef, Walking on Cars, Bono, Brian Kennedy, Maverick Sabre, Angelique Kudjo, The Riptide Movement, Richie Buckley, Scott Flanigan, David Brophy are some of the names coming to the fore front of my mind)... and on some very prestigious stages... (3Arena, Main Stage Electric Picnic, National Concert Hall, Belfast Opera House, Ulster Hall, JJ Smyths, Round Room at the Mansion House, The Guinness Storehouse, Wexford Speigletent, The Olympia, Adare Manor and toured abroad as far reaching as India, Lithuania, Germany and Spain).
Thanks for taking time to read my bio and I look forward to sharing my music with you and hearing yours here on SoundCloud. 
Sooz x

Management:
American International Artists, Inc.
Cynthia B. Herbst, President
+1 (518) 686-0972
Cynthia@aiArtists.com

Much like songbird Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little sparrow’, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its Latin quarter her first performing stage. Years later, Peyroux would cite iconic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classic La Vie En Rose, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melancholy.
 
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1974, Madeleine “grew up in a house filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realised music’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life.

Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her parents divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.”

Thirty years after her formative busking days Peyroux is the proud curator of nine beguiling albums and an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours under her belt. Her atmospheric version of Serge Gainsborough’s La Javanaise was used in the soundtrack of Oscar Winner The Shape of Water and her countless accolades
include the coveted BBC International Artist Of The Year honour.
 
Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago.

With endearing passion and great curiosity the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
 
Madeleine might attribute her success to “mostly luck” but to the industry and loyal fans alike, it is the immense talent and utter dedication to her craft that shines through.
“Peyroux is a tremendous talent and almost a total intuitive” reflects Larry Klein, “she has the capacity to get the magic. When she sings and plays her guitar, great things happen.”

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