Melanie, the "Brand New Key" singer, posthumously released "Lullabies From Heaven," an album of children's music. Melanie's daughter, Leilah Schekeryk, discusses her mother's artistry and the ...

Country music icons. The “leader” of a 1960s girl group. Songwriting gurus. This year ended with more irreplaceable losses within the music industry. At the top of the year, Melanie Safka (Melanie), ...

Hear songs from Quincy Jones, Melanie and Toby Keith. By Lindsay Zoladz As we look back at 2024, it’s important to honor the many great musicians we lost this year. Over the past 12 months, we’ve said ...

Melanie Nakagawa has built her career around championing sustainability: from working as an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, to advising Secretary John Kerry on climate change as a ...

At a time when the music industry was rapidly expanding and more and more record labels were putting out new music, these 1960s and 70s artists took the opportunity to use their newfound platform to ...

I had a late sixties flashback last week prompted by two of the era’s female icons. It began glumly on Tuesday with the death of Melanie (Safka), whose music stardom launched at Woodstock. I was a kid ...

Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key,” has died. Her ...

Musician and Astoria native Melanie Safka, best known for her hit songs “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” and “Brand New Key,” died Tuesday at the age of 76, her family said in a statement on Facebook.

MELANIE: (Singing) Beautiful people, you live in the same... SUMMERS: Born Melanie Safka in 1947, the singer got her start in music at a young age. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MELANIE: My entire ...