in various stages of dress, undress and chemical alteration. The people were there for a music festival. The music festival was called Woodstock. Safka was just called "Melanie," like Cher or Reba.

“Not my dress, not my dancing, not my fishnet stockings, not my butt. It was my music, my music I protected my whole life.” Melanie Anne Safka was born in Queens, on Feb. 3, 1947, to a father ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Safka performed at Woodstock and won an Emmy Award for composing the lyrics to the theme song for the 1987-90 CBS series “Beauty and the Beast,” starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Singer Melanie, who performed at Woodstock and called Nashville home, passed away Tuesday at the age of 76. She had multiple hits in the 1970s with “Brand New Key ...

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 ...

Melanie Safka, the singer who went by the mononym Melanie famous for songs including “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” and “Brand New Key,” has died. She was 76. The news was shared with ...