SUMMERS: Born Melanie Safka in 1947, the singer got her start in music at a young age. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MELANIE: My entire family sang and played instruments. My mom was a jazz ...

50 years ago,Melanie Safka — who rose to fame simply as "Melanie ... It was silly, but I was very young. I didn’t know any better. I had already been battling this beautific image of ...

Melanie Safka, the folk-pop singer and songwriter known as the artist Melanie, who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and topped the pop chart in the early 1970s with her hits “Brand New Key” and ...

Singer Melanie Safka, known as “The First Lady of Woodstock” for playing the 1969 festival at just 22 years old, who also had hits in the 1970s including “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (C ...

But Melanie — full name Melanie Safka — had been in the studio earlier ... The singer did not lack for respect from many prominent younger performers. Miley Cyrus enlisted her for a duet ...

Born Melanie Safka, the daughter of a jazz singer, in Queens, New York, she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and performed in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village and other New ...

Melanie, the influential singer-songwriter who was one of three solo female performers at the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, died on Tuesday (January 23) at the age of 76. The news ...

She was 76. The musician — full name Melanie Safka — died on Tuesday, her record label Cleopatra also confirmed. “This is the hardest post for us to write, and there are so many things we ...