With song and a guitar Melanie artfully changed all expectations.

Pieces of many lifetimes, scattered by the winds of experience and assembled again by the force of love. Melanie introduces all generations to the power of lyric and spellbinding melody artfully brought to life through her passionate performances.

With her songs and a guitar Melanie changed all expectations. She began her career in New York in the coffeehouse circuit and with dreams of becoming an actress. She stumbled across a record deal at the Brill Building on Broadway when she responded to a casting call for “a girl who played the guitar and sang.” The doorman sent her to the wrong office, and so she appeared in the private offices of the American record producing team Hugo and Luigi. Luigi introduced her to her future husband and manager Peter Schekeryk. From this came her first recorded song “Beautiful People” which immediately became a turntable hit played by DJs but not yet available in stores.

It wasn’t long before her audiences grew. Melanie brought something they had not experienced before. Bruno Coquatrix scheduled her for forty consecutive days of performance in Paris’ Olympia Theater. From there she traveled to the United Kingdom for more shows. She returned briefly to the United States and took the stage as the final performer on the first day of the legendary Woodstock Music Festival. Melanie’s songs captivated hundreds of thousands of people that night. The rain fell and the audience raised candles in response to her. The following year Melanie made the journey to the United Kingdom again to perform at the legendary Isle of Wight and Glastonbury festivals.

The interest in Melanie’s unexampled performances and songwriting grew. She performed at Carnegie Hall in New York as well as at the brand new Lincoln Center Metropolitan Opera House, the largest repertory opera house in the world, now affectionally known as “The Met”. She was invited to be the first solo pop/rock artist to perform at the Sydney Opera House.

And so her story began.

Audiences loved watching Melanie's interviews with leading television hosts such as Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett and Johnny Cash.

John Rockwell of the New York Times wrote, “Melanie's cult has long been famous, but it's a cult that's responding to something genuine and powerful--which is maybe another way of saying that this writer counts himself as part of the cult, too.”

Jazz piano virtuoso Roger Kellaway said, "Melanie is extraordinary to the point that she could be sitting in front of us in this room and sing something like 'Momma Momma' right to us, and it would just go right through your entire being."

Melanie in her youth spent a Halloween “trick-or-treating for UNICEF.” As an adult she became UNICEF’s spokesperson and toured the world in support of protection of children everywhere. In more recent times the South Korean government invited her to perform her song “The Saddest Thing” in the Demilitarized Zone between North Korea. This song is known as the heartache anthem for the split between the two countries.

Melanie is outspoken about many human rights concerns, and regularly participates in concerts and charities to bring greater awareness to human rights.

After five decades of songwriting and performance Melanie is a quintessential troubadour.