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The Essential Melody Gardot
The guitarist, singer and songwriter Melody Gardot was born in New Jersey in 1985. She took piano lessons and, as a teenager, performed in small venues in and around Philadelphia. She was studying fashion and art at the Community College of Philadelphia in 2003 when she was hit by an SUV while riding a bicycle. She suffered pelvic, spinal and head injuries and ended up in a hospital bed for almost one year. Initially, she could neither walk nor talk and was hypersensitive to light and sound. A doctor suggested music therapy. Lying in bed with a plaster cast, she learned to play the guitar, sing and compose. While still in her hospital bed, she wrote and recorded songs that would become her first recording, the 2005 EP...
