Melanie biography

Record company--Lonestar Records, Cleveland St. Folk singer-songwriter Melanie recorded her first album in and attracted national attention as well as a loyal fan following two years later when she performed at Woodstock, the legendary rock festival.

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During the early s, Melanie's gentle, acoustic sound on songs like "Lay Down," "Beautiful People," and "Brand New Key" was in sharp contrast to the hard-driving, heavy-metal rock that dominated the charts. Edwin Miller of Seventeen magazine observed that her "urgent ballads bind you to her with invisible threads of emotion.

Her mother was a blues singer at the local clubs who fostered a love of music in her daughter and entered her in area talent contests. At age four, Melanie made her professional debut on a radio show called "Live Like a Millionaire," where she sang and played the ukelele. When Melanie was a teenager, the family moved to southern New Jersey, where despite her mother's blues influence, she was drawn to the New York folk scene and the music of artists Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie.

At age 16, Melanie was hired to sing at a local club where, she told Miller, "I worked Monday nights. Though the young thespian enjoyed her drama studies, she found it extremely difficult to audition for acting jobs. Descriptions of the people wanted never [fit] me. Melanie signed with a music publishing company and was assigned to producer Peter Schekeryk, whom she later married.

In she landed a recording contract with Columbia Records.