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  Melissa Manchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melissa Manchester (born on February 15, 1951 at New York, New York) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
Manchester was born in the Bronx area of New York city to a musical family of Jewish descent.
Manchester then appeared on the Manhattan club scene, where she was discovered by Bette Midler and Barry Manilow, who took her on as a backup singer in 1971.
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Singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester was born on Feb. 15, 1951 in the Bronx, N.Y. Her father was a bassoonist in the New York Metropolitan Opera and music was an integral part of Melissa's upbringing.
Manchester dabbled in acting, starring opposite Midler in For the Boys on the big screen and playing Maddy in the TV series "Blossom." Music, however, continued to dominate Manchester's career throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Manchester released two albums in 1997: her first holiday album, Colors of Christmas, and her greatest hits compilation, The Essence of Melissa Manchester.
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Manchester's voice is mixed at a lower level, echoed and overdubbed in parts.
Poncia's grand style production (he also cowrote one song and sings backup) has given Manchester a confidence and discipline that were only intermittently in evidence on her previous albums; her tendencies toward vocal excess and flatness of pitch have been eradicated, while her idiosyncratic phrasing and intimate approach to a ballad remain intact.
Manchester is very sexy in a barely disciplined, almost blowzy way -- maybe a touch overexpressive, a little too liberal with her emotions.
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Melissa's albums have served to establish her as one of the most compelling singer/songwriters in contemporary music.
Melissa Manchester has combined her acting and singing talents in starring roles in Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Song and Dance" and "Music of the Night," and in a recurring role in the hit television series "Blossom." She also worked again with Bette Midler, co-starring in the film "For The Boys," released by 20th Century Fox.
Melissa Manchester received the Governor's Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for her contributions to the music and recording arts.
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Grammy Award-winning artist MELISSA MANCHESTER was born in New York where her father was a bassoonist for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
MELISSA MANCHESTER will return to the stage in March of 1999, when she co-stars with Kelsey Grammer ("Frasier"), in Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed musical "SWEENEY TODD" at The Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles.
MELISSA MANCHESTER recently received the Governor’s Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for her contributions to the music and recording arts.
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Manchester recorded this album in 1975 and it was her third album to date...
A revelation : Melissa Manchester has managed to remain contemporary while at the same time remember her musical roots on this fine recording.
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It seems that Manchester's father, the late David Manchester, played second bassoon for nearly three decades in New York's Metropolitan Opera orchestra, and many of his daughter's earliest memories include fleeting glimpses into the world of orchestras, orchestral venues and classical performance.
With David Manchester's classical orientation - though the Manchester home was the scene of quite diverse music-making - you might think the singer would have been pushed in a classical direction, either as a composer or singer.
As for Manchester's offering, she is promising "everything from old hits to a little bit of Sondheim" to a little bit of her more recent material.
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Melissa Manchester will perform on the 100-foot stage at the Stafford Township Arts Center.
Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester is probably best known for her hits "Midnight Blue" and "Don't Cry Out Loud." Tonight, she will come to the University of South Carolina Upstate to...
Melissa Manchester, after taking 10 years off to raise her children, has returned to the music business and played the Pops at Heinz Hall on Thursday night.
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From the first words out of her mouth, you knew that Melissa Manchester -- at the outset of her first personal appearance tour in more than 20 years -- does singing like singing should be done.
Manchester stood on a great big pile of musicianship to get her message across, stacked up by, among others, Peter Hume, who can twang the hollow body guitar in a sort of white-guy, down-home fashion that struck just the right tone.
The Manchester face is a beautiful one, true, but her hands, too, are strikingly delicate and graceful.
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Grammy Award-winhing artist Melissa Manchester was born in New York where her father was a bassoonist for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
On the acting front, MELISSA also combined her acting and singing into a recurring role in the TV hit series Blossom (as Blossom's mother, Maddy), which premiered its season with a two-hour special, filmed in Paris in the summer of '93.
Featured in the liner notes for THE ESSENCE OF MELISSA MANCHESTER are quotes from two of MELISSA's biggest fans and closest friends: Barry Manilow and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, with whom MELISSA wrote a majority of her classic and most memorable hits.
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Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter-musician MELISSA MANCHESTER will mix songs from her current WHEN I LOOK DOWN THAT ROAD album and her classic hits like “Midnight Blue” and “Come In >From The Rain” with deep album cuts for her special club tour launching October 10 in San Francisco.
Manchester, who quit recording a decade ago to raise her children.
MELISSA had tried doing it the other way, with success, but her last few projects wound up alienating her from her own authentic voice.
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 Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester, whose father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera, began singing commercial jingles at age 15 and went on to become a staff writer for Chappell Music while attending the High School of Performing Arts.
Manchester took her talents to the Manhattan club scene, where she was discovered by Bette Midler and Barry Manilow; the two hired her as a backup singer in 1971.
Manchester has alternated occasional recording with scriptwriting and acting, appearing with Bette Midler in For the Boys and on the television series Blossom as the title character's birth mother.
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Melissa Manchester starts her comeback at the Cinegrill in October, 2004.
Manchester stood on a great big pile of well-played music to get her message across, stacked up by, among others, Peter Hume, who can twang the hollow body guitar in a sort of white-guy, down-home fashion that struck just the right tone.
Or maybe the idea was “to the barricades,” since Melissa kept balling her little fist concerning the days when Paris loved so well.
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Among the introspective female singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1970's was Melissa Manchester.
With the new decade, Manchester hit #32 with "Fire in The Morning" and her duet with Peabo Bryson, the jazz-pop of "Lovers After All" reached #54 in 1981, showing signs that maybe she was being outdated with the onset of new wave.
Melissa Manchester is and always will be the one voice I like to listen to when I need cheering up.
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During this time, she began performing at clubs in Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side, where her voice and mastery of the piano attracted the attention of Bette Midler, who hired Manchester as a backup singer for her cabaret act in 1971.
In 1975, Manchester scored her first Top 10 hit, "Midnight Blue," from her third album, Melissa.
In 1998, Manchester was invited to perform for President Clinton.
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Instead, she was talking about something that had become considerably less of a taboo by the 1970s.
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Melissa Manchester is not a name most people on this campus are likely to know.
Melissa demonstrated at the show that she was a super fan of her backup band.
The rest of the band consisted of: Stephan Oberhoff migrated from keyboard to piano all night, depending on whether Melissa was playing piano, Bruce Lett on bass guitar, and finally John Lewis on the drums.
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A singer's singer and a songwriter's songwriter, THE MUSIC OF MELISSA MANCHESTER, the latest entry in the Arista Masters Series, celebrates her Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated career from 1973 to 1982 at Arista and Bell Records (the latter on any collection for the first time).
For Melissa Manchester, the new collection underscores a performance career that is in full swing this springtime 1997.
THE MUSIC OF MELISSA MANCHESTER is the definitive retrospective package that both her fans and critical admirers.
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MOR singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester, whose father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera, began singing commercial jingles at age 15 and went on to become a staff writer for Chappell Music while attending the High School of Performing Arts.
After taking a songwriting class at New York University taught by Paul Simon, Manchester took her talents to the Manhattan club scene, where she was discovered by Bette Midler and Barry Manilow; the two hired her as a backup singer in 1971.
1975's Melissa produced her first Top Ten hit, "Midnight Blue," and set the tone for most of her career with its direct, slickly produced MOR pop sound.
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