Victoria Garance Alixe Legrand (born May 28, 1981) is a French-American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter and keyboardist of the dream pop band Beach House.

[3][4] She spent her early years in Paris until age six, when her family moved to the United States, first briefly living in Baltimore, Maryland, before relocating to rural Cecil County.

[5] Legrand studied piano throughout her early life and adolescence,[7] and, as a teenager, performed in a Led Zeppelin cover band.

[8] She graduated from the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1999,[9] and subsequently attended Vassar College, where she majored in drama.

[11] After becoming "disenchanted with theater school"[12] and more interested in songwriting and in musical artists such as Le Tigre and Yo La Tengo, she dropped out of the program and returned to the United States, settling in Baltimore.