Melanie

Melanie , of his true name Melanie Safka Schekeryk (born the February 3rd 1947 with New York, the United States), is an American singer interpret-type-setter Rock .

However, on this subject, itself is not defined in a particular category.

“I like all the kinds of music but what I prefer, it is to mix so many different styles in a song that at the same time the song and me transcend the categories. I hate to be categorized: country, pop, anything. The trick is to become a musical being atemporel, with atemporelles musical songs. ” ¹

It sold more than 80 million discs in the world.

It was also the first pop singer/rock'n'roll to make a concert in each following place:

  • Carnegie Hall
  • Metropolitan Operated House
  • Sydney Opera House
  • General meeting of the the United Nations where delegates ovationné it upright.

She was spokesperson of UNESCO in 1971.

Since 1969, Melanie leaves a album per annum. They all are produced by her husband, Peter Schekeryk. The couple has three children who are also Musicien S: Leilah, Jeordie, and Beautiful “Virtuoso” Jarred Schekeryk. They have also two small children.

Musical career

Its beginnings

It appears for the first time at the radio at the 4 years age with the song: Gimme has Little KIS . The song was recorded with the Shirley Temple.

It truly starts to sing at 16 years in nightclubs and coffees of Greenwich Village. At the same time she studies a little the Théâtre with the New York Academy off Fine Arts.

In 1967, it goes to a hearing for actors to Broadway. The gatekeeper, indicator which it carries a Guitare directs it by error towards the office of Peter Schekeryk (his husband-to-be), a producer from Columbia Records. This one makes him sign a contract and becomes its Manager. It records four songs for this Recording company, whose Beautiful People , but in front of commercial failure that its first disc constitutes, Columbia does not wish that it continue its career there.

Its first successes

It thus signs with her husband at Buddah Records in 1969 and leaves its first album: Born to Be .

It is in Europe that she is in first a real success. Its song “Bobo' S Party” remained N°1 in the charts French several weeks of continuation in 1969. The same year she is also success in the Netherlands with the song “Beautiful People”.

On the other hand, for the United States, its native land, it is necessary to await the Festival of Woodstock and its concert of the August 16th. During this one, for the first time in the history of the pop, the public lit Bougie S (what initiated a Tradition). That inspired Melanie, and she wrote the song “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)”, which was a success in all the Europe and the the United States, in 1970. It is a homage to the public of Woodstock, a song recorded with the Edwin Hawkin Singers.

Melanie took part in the Festival of the island of Wight (England) in 1970.

Neighborhood Records

Disputing with its recording company, it assembles in 1971 with Schekeryk its own label: Neighborhood Records. It is under this label that Brand New Key leaves, its larger hit. It will be 18 weeks n°1 Chart S American, and will be sold in the world to more than one million specimens. It will be also censured on some radios because of sexual allusions. However Melanie refutes the fact that those were deliberated.

“I wrote Brand New Key in 15 minutes one harms. I found it nice; a kind of old melody of the Thirties. I imagine that the key and the lock always were of the symbols freudiens, and rather obvious besides. There was no message serious behind the song, but people read things there. They invented incredible stories about the words and of what the song wanted to say. In certain places, it was even prohibited with the radio. ” “My idea of the songs it is that once they were written, one has to say very little on their life afterwards. It is like having a child. You conceive a song, you deliver it, and then you give him the best departure than you can. After it is all alone. People will take it as they want to take it. ²”

In 1975, firm Neighborhood Records.

Since

At the end of the Eighties, it composes the topic of the televised series Beauty and the Beast .

In 2004, Melanie left the album Paled by Dimmer Light which is a coproduction of Peter and Beau (his son) Jarred Schekeryk. CD contains 16 titles whose 4 headlights are: “To Be the One”, “Extraordinary”, “Make It Work”, and “I Tried to Die Young”.

Recoveries

The song Hip-hop “The Nosebleed Section” (2003) of the Australia NS The Hilltop Hoods sample extensively in the song “People In The Row Face” of Melanie.

Its songs were taken again inter alia by Cher, Dolly Parton, Macy Gray or Dalida.

Rewards

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Titles and words of songs
  • Central Melanie Bonds towards many sites.

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