Best known for I Don't Want to Wait and Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?, which was a Billboard Hot 100 1997 top-10 hit.
She studied jazz singing and improvisation at the Berklee College of Music. She was honored with a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1998.
Her time touring with Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair solidified her reputation as a masterful live performer.
Her mother was an elementary school art Teacher and her father was a biology and ecology professor as well as a polka musician.
She achieved great popularity when her song I Don't Want to Wait was used as the theme song for the teen drama series Dawson's Creek starring Katie Holmes.
