24 January 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\nSinger Melanie Safka has died aged 76.<\/p>\n
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Singer Melanie Safka has died aged 76<\/p>\n
The US folk musician, best known for her song \u2018Brand New Key\u2019 and rendition of The Rolling Stones\u2019 classic \u2018Ruby Tuesday\u2019, passed away “peacefully” on Tuesday (23.01.24), her family announced.<\/p>\n
Her children \u2013 Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred \u2013 shared the news in a Facebook post on Wednesday (24.01.24), and even though the cause of death is unknown, Melanie\u2019s representatives mentioned she was suffering \u201cillness\u201d in their separate statement.<\/p>\n
The family announcement in full said: \u201cA message from Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred. <\/p>\n
\u201cDear Ones,<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis is the hardest post for us to write, and there are so many things we want to say, first, and there\u2019s no easy way except to say it\u2026 Mom passed, peacefully, out of this world and into the next on January, 23rd, 2024.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe are heartbroken, but want to thank each and every one of you for the affection you have for our Mother, and to tell you that she loved all of you so much! She was one of the most talented, strong and passionate women of the era and every word she wrote, every note she sang reflected that.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOur world is much dimmer, the colours of a dreary, rainy Tennessee pale with her absence today, but we know that she is still here, smiling down on all of us, on all of you, from the stars.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe ask tonight, Wednesday January 24th, at 10pm central time, each of you lights a candle in honour of Melanie. Raise, raise them high, high up again. \u201cIlluminate the darkness, and let us all be connected in remembrance of the extraordinary woman who was wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend to so very many people.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe are planning a Celebration of Life for Mom and it will be open to all of you who want to come and celebrate her. The details will be announced as soon as they are in place. We look forward to seeing you there.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAt this time please allow us, her family, privacy as we grieve for her, remember her, and figure out how to navigate this crazy world without her.<\/p>\n
\nThank you all for your love \u2013 you meant so very much to her.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cLove and Peace,<\/p>\n
\n\u201cLeilah, Jeordie, and Beau Jarred.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nKnown by her performing name of Melanie, Melanie Safka was recently working on a new record featuring cover songs.<\/p>\n
\nTitled \u2018Second Hand Smoke\u2019, it would have been her 32nd album.<\/p>\n
\nThe singer was 22 when she performed at the iconic Woodstock festival in 1969, which also featured Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead.<\/p>\n
\nShe said she waited hours to perform as her anxiety kept growing, once saying: <\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe terror kept building in me. The thought of me performing in front of all of those people and that huge stage \u2013 I was all by myself.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThen it started to rain and I truly believed that everyone was going to get up and go home: \u2018It\u2019s raining, I\u2019m free, I\u2019ll go back to life as it was. Maybe I will be an archaeologist; maybe I will join the Peace Corps.\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThat\u2019s when they said, \u2018You\u2019re next.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBorn 3 February, 1947, in Astoria, New York, Melanie studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts while pursuing her singing career.<\/p>\n
\nShe landed gigs at coffee houses and folk clubs in Greenwich Village during New York\u2019s booming folk scene and in 1967 met her future manager, producer and husband, Peter Schekeryk.<\/p>\n
\nShe signed with Columbia Records and released the singles \u2018Beautiful People\u2019 and \u201cGarden in the City\u2019, but when Clive Davis declined to allow her to record an album, she left the label for Buddah Records, which released her debut LP. \u2018Lay Down\u2019 was her first US hit, followed by \u2018Peace Will Come\u2019, \u2018What Have They Done to My Song Ma\u2019, \u2018The Nickel Song\u2019 and a cover of the Stones\u2019 \u2018Ruby Tuesday\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nIn 1971, Billboard named her the year\u2019s biggest-selling female artist in the US.<\/p>\n
\nMelanie became a spokesperson for UNICEF and continued recording albums regularly until the death of her husband in 2010.<\/p>\n
\nShe also frequently teamed up with her children to perform live record gigs for Internet streaming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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