Melanie Safka

Melanie Anne Safka - Schekeryk ( born February 3, 1947 in Astoria, New York City as Melanie Anne Safka ), primarily known by their first name Melanie, is an American singer and songwriter.

Life

At the age of five years, the daughter of jazz singer Polly Safka - Bertolo made ​​her first recording with Gimme a Little Kiss, a song she lectured in the style of Shirley Temple.

Europe discovered her talent in front of the United States. Your Song Bobo's Party was in 1969 for several consecutive weeks at the top of the French charts. In the same year she had a hit with Beautiful People in the Netherlands and performed at the Woodstock Festival, where she took the place of the Incredible String Band, who refused to appear in the rain.

The then 22 -year-old Melanie had the impression that she was apparently the only one in Woodstock, which was not under the influence of drugs in his own words. Although they knew all the artists from the media, but none of them had ever seen up close. Not only because they occurred with a strong stage fright. She played her two songs Beautiful People and Birthday of the Sun, while the audience in the dark candles in time with the music moving, which had previously been dealt. This moment she held later in the song Lay Down ( Candles in the Rain) ( German: Candles in the Rain ) that the managed to the following year and accompanied by a choir of the Edwin Hawkins Singers at # 6 of the U.S. charts and also in Europe was very successful.

Her biggest hit in her home country in 1971, however, Brand New Key, which is also known under the name of The Roller Skate Song and made ​​it to the top of the U.S. charts. In Germany and the UK it was 1970/71 also very successful with the Rolling Stones Title Ruby Tuesday. Worldwide, the most successful song by Melanie What Have They Done was to My Song, known in the original version, but also in the German version of Daliah Lavi in Germany: " Who's got my song so destroyed, Ma? ". Other successful titles were Peace Will Come, nickel song, Ring the Living Bell and in 1973/74, the cover version of the Shirelles title Will You Love Me Tomorrow. Melanie was awarded three gold discs. In 1972, she received in a readers' poll the Silver Bravo Otto the German teen magazine Bravo.

Since their appearance in Woodstock, the singer has released an album almost every year, most of which were produced by her husband, Peter, who died in 2010 Schekeryk. The two have three children, who are also all in the music business: Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred Schekeryk. They also have two grandchildren.

2003 used the Australian hip- hop group The Hilltop Hoods a sample from Melanie's People in the Front Row for their song The Nosebleed Section. In the same year her album Paled by Dimmer Light, in which it is a co-production between Peter and Beau Jarred Schekeryk appeared.

You still touring almost every year and is often accompanied by her son, Beau Jarred as a guitarist.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Compilations

Trivia

The CD " A Portrait of Melanie " from the year 1993 to suggest, Melanie was left-handed (or at least ambidextrous same), because on the cover and on the CD itself is the right hand on the fretboard and the left hand on the body the guitar positioned. For more information on the CD are: Original Buddah Records. Marketed and distributed by Castle Communications Germany GmbH (CHC 7080 CR, photo M. Putland, cover design: Bert Hülpisch )

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