Born july 2nd 1983 she was named after the beatles song "michelle" she is of irish ancestry and eursian as her mother was born in the netherlands. michelle started learning to sing when she was 8 years old when she was only sixteen she released an album without a label called broken bracelet, which was named after a friend of hers gave her a bracelet promising when it broke she would be famous. she released her first album which was an instant bestseller in 2001 called "The Spirit room" her 2nd and perhaps final album as a solo singer was
Hotel Paper released in 2003, michelle joined up with her longtime pal
jessica harp to form the band the wreckers they made their debut with the song leave the pieces on the one tree hill soundtrack. Michelle is now happily married to her bass player
Teddy Landau who is 19 years older than her, she has a one and half year old little girl named owen isabelle.