

Branch was also nominated that year for Best New Artist. 5 in the US and won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. She teamed with Santana in 2002 for “The Game of Love.” It peaked at No.Branch’s 2001 major label debut, The Spirit Room, went double platinum and spawned three Top 40 hits: “Everywhere,” “All You Wanted,” and “Goodbye to You.”.It apparently broke the day Branch landed a deal with Maverick Records in 2001.

Poltz told Branch she would become famous when it broke.

Her parents signed her up for vocal lessons at Northern Arizona University and bought her a guitar when she was 14. Branch was musically inclined from an early age.Pop-rock singer-songwriter Michelle Branch broke through in the early 2000s with a string of ubiquitous Top 40 hits, including the smash 2002 Santana collaboration “The Game of Love.”
