Melissa Manchester

Melissa Manchester is one of the great underrated voices of the singer-songwriter era. She came up alongside Barry Manilow as one of Bette Midler's Harlettes, then built a genuinely distinctive catalog where the ballads like Don't Cry Out Loud hit with real theatrical power. What impresses me is the range, she could write a tender confessional like Midnight Blue and then belt a film anthem, even performing two Oscar-nominated songs on the same Academy Awards show. She never quite got the household-name status of her peers, but the craft is undeniable. A pro's pro from the Bronx with a voice built for the big notes.

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Melissa Manchester is an American singer, songwriter, and actress born in 1951 in the Bronx, New York. A staple of 1970s and 1980s soft rock and pop, she scored hits such as Midnight Blue and Don't Cry Out Loud. She won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Pop Female Vocal Performance for You Should Hear How She Talks About You and performed two Academy Award-nominated songs on the same Academy Awards show.

Name (English)

Melissa Manchester

Name (Japanese)

メリサ・マンチェスター

Reading

めりさ・まんちぇすたー

Born

February 15, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

The Bronx, New York, United States

Occupation

Actor / Musician / Singer / Songwriter / Television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

High school

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School

• Official sitehttps://melissamanchester.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/melissa.manchester/
• Xhttps://x.com/melissashares
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa%20Manchester
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271888

Tags

• From New York
• Actor
• Musician
• Singer

Last updated

September 26, 2026

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