Vanessa Carlton
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Vanessa Lee Carlton was born on August 16, 1980. She is an American soft rock/Piano pop singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for the Billboard top five, Grammy-nominated single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody which was released April 30, 2002, and certified platinum in the U.S.
Carlton dated singer/producer Stephan Jenkins of the rock band Third Eye Blind from 2002 until 2007. Jane magazine in the U.S. named Carlton one of the "eleven people you’d most like to see naked"; she posed for the magazine’s July 2005 issue.
Ashton Kutcher Punk’d Carlton in November 2004 during a rehearsal for her performance on The Tonight Show. In 2005, Vanessa Carlton completed the New York City Marathon and donated the pledge money she collected to Musicians on Call, a nonprofit organization that brings live and recorded music to patients’ bedsides. She currently resides in an apartment in New York City, Manhattan.
