Melba Moore
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| Melba Moore | |||||||
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| Born | Melba Hill October 29, 1945 New York City, New York, United States |
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| Spouse(s) | Charles Huggins (1975-1991) | ||||||
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'Melba Moore (born Melba Hill on October 29, 1945 in New York City) is an American R&B singer and actress.
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[edit] Career
She started her career in 1967 with a role in the musical Hair. In 1970, Moore won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Purlie (She portrayed Lutiebelle) making her the first black actress to do so. In 1978 she appeared (as Marsinah) with Eartha Kitt in Timbuktu!.
By the 1970s Moore started focusing on music with many hits in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. Her debut album, released in 1971 on Mercury records, was Look What You're Doing to the Man. Her 1975 second album, Peach Melba, earned her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. In 1976, she earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female for the song "Lean On Me",[1] in which she held a 35-second note. Some of her other hits include "You Stepped Into My Life", "Love's Comin' At Ya", "This Is It", "The Greatest Feeling", "A Little Bit More" and "Read My Lips". Moore often collaborated with R&B crooner, Freddie Jackson.
Her 1990 recording of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was instrumental in having that song entered into the Congressional Record as the official African-American National Anthem.
More recently, Moore has been focusing on gospel recordings whilst still appearing in occasional Broadway shows. In 2003, she was featured in the film, The Fighting Temptations, which starred Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles.
After her impressive career of more than forty years, with over a dozen released albums, she finally gets her first royalties in the beginning of 2007.[citation needed]
[edit] Selected Discography
- I got love (Mercury Records, 1970)
- Look what you're doing to the man (Mercury Records, 1971)
- Live (Mercury Records, 1972)
- Peach Melba (Buddah Records, 1975)
- This is it (Buddah Records, 1976)
- Melba (Buddah Records, 1976)
- A portrait of Melba (Buddah Records, 1977)
- Melba (Epic Records, 1978)
- Burn (Epic Records, 1979)
- The other side of the rainbow (Capitol Records, 1982)
- A lot of love (Capitol Records, 1986)
- I'm in love (Capitol Records, 1988)
- Soul exposed (Capitol Records, 1990)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Melba Moore at the Internet Broadway Database
- Melba Moore at the Internet Movie Database
- SoulTracks.com profile of Melba Moore
- Melba Moore Official Website
- Melba Moore's Official Myspace page
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| Preceded by Marian Mercer for Promises, Promises |
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical 1970 for Purlie |
Succeeded by Patsy Kelly for No, No Nanette |
