Petra Haden

One of three daughters of jazz bassist Charlie Haden, Petra Haden was born in 1971 in Manhattan. Haden's early life was steeped in music, and not only from her father -- she and her two sisters sang together all the time, and at a very early age she demonstrated not only an extraordinary ear for music but also the ability to re-create the sounds of musical instruments with her own voice, in pop, classical, jazz, blues, or any other idiom or genre one cared to name. She began studying the violin when she was eight years old, and by her teens she was on her way to becoming a virtuoso, although she also displayed proficiency on the trumpet, mandolin, and various keyboard instruments, making her a true multi-instrumentalist.