Victoria Garance Alixe Legrand (born May 28, 1981) has been the singer-songwriter and keyboardist for the dream pop band Beach House since 2005. She is the daughter of a painter and the niece of French composer Michel Legrand. She was born in Paris, France, but was raised in Philadelphia. She returned to Paris to study acting at the International Theatre School of Jacques Lecoq. After becoming "disenchanted with theater school in Paris," she moved back to Philadelphia in 2004.