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Sat 03 Mar 2007Player on the streets of a half-perfect worldAmerican-born Parisian Madeleine Peyroux has the perfect blend of influences for her languorous music, writes Tony Clayton-Lea.Maadeleine Peyroux. She may have once described her parents as hippies, but Peyroux seems to be as straight and organised as they come. Talking to her as she travels by car through the Florida town of Fort Lauderdale, on her way from one gig to another, Peyroux exhibits most of the signs of the artfully controlled person. She gives the impression that she knows what the next town is going to be, the next gig, the next album.