“It was just me and my mother," said Melanie, aka Melanie Safka-Schekeryk ... Melanie, shown performing in 2015 during the Red Bank Regional High School Hall of Fame ceremony, died Jan. 23.

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 ...

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, who won sudden fame as a 22-year-old folk singer playing for hundreds of thousands of people on the first night of the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and followed it up with a string of ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

Melanie Safka was 22 years old in the summer of 1969 on the day her mother couldn't board the helicopter. "My mother was right about to get in, and they guy said, 'Who's she?' " Safka says.

Melanie Safka opens the second day of the "A Day In The Garden" festival on Aug. 15, 1988, in Bethel, N.Y. Melanie, a singer-songwriter behind 1970s hits including “Brand New Key,” has died.

Melanie Safka, the singer and songwriter who charmed audiences with her husky voice and soulful lyrics, sadly passed away on January 23, 2024, aged 76. Safka rose to prominence with her ...

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 ...

It had a key place in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film “Boogie Nights” and was lip-synced by Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” in 2016.Born Melanie Safka, the daughter of a jazz singer ...