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Melba Moore, a Tony Award winning, 4x Grammy nominee, has starred in the Broadway musicals "Hair", "Purlie!", "Timbuktu!" and "Les Miserables". Her countless hits include "You Stepped Into My Life," "Read My Lips," "Fallin'" and "This Is It." She's been a global success for over fifty years and now has a new book, which shares her strategies for longevity.
Melba shot to super-stardom in the early 1970s with her debut album ("I Got Love"), that garnered her a 1971 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, the following year, she also scored with a variety television show that co-starred Clifton Davis. In 2003, Moore was featured in the film, The Fighting Temptations, which starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé. A four-time Grammy nominee and one-time Tony Award winner, prior to being a singer/actress, Melba Moore also made guest appearances on nearly all of the following shows: The David Frost Show, Soul Train, The Mike Douglas Show, Dinah!, The Dick Cavett Show, 13 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Captain Kangaroo, The Tim Conway Show, and Solid Gold, This Is It – Marvelous…And Getting Better takes the reader on the highs and lows of Melba's career. The entertainment veteran shares how she had to pivot time and again, especially in an industry that didn't always know what to do with the massive voice within her petite being. From Harlem to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the book, Melba moves from wining the esteemed Tony Award for "Purlie!" to continually transitioning to discover what's next in her career. In the roller coaster ride in life, she's done it all and never backed down from a challenge.
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Melba Moore, a Tony Award winning, 4x Grammy nominee, has starred in the Broadway musicals "Hair", "Purlie!", "Timbuktu!" and "Les Miserables". Her countless hits include "You Stepped Into My Life," "Read My Lips," "Fallin'" and "This Is It." She's been a global success for over fifty years and now has a new book, which shares her strategies for longevity.
Melba shot to super-stardom in the early 1970s with her debut album ("I Got Love"), that garnered her a 1971 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, the following year, she also scored with a variety television show that co-starred Clifton Davis. In 2003, Moore was featured in the film, The Fighting Temptations, which starred Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé. A four-time Grammy nominee and one-time Tony Award winner, prior to being a singer/actress, Melba Moore also made guest appearances on nearly all of the following shows: The David Frost Show, Soul Train, The Mike Douglas Show, Dinah!, The Dick Cavett Show, 13 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Captain Kangaroo, The Tim Conway Show, and Solid Gold, This Is It – Marvelous…And Getting Better takes the reader on the highs and lows of Melba's career. The entertainment veteran shares how she had to pivot time and again, especially in an industry that didn't always know what to do with the massive voice within her petite being. From Harlem to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the book, Melba moves from wining the esteemed Tony Award for "Purlie!" to continually transitioning to discover what's next in her career. In the roller coaster ride in life, she's done it all and never backed down from a challenge.
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