GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter MELISSA MANCHESTER is the first recording artist in the history of the Academy Awards to have two nominated movie themes in a single year, “Through The Eyes Of Love” from "Ice Castles" and “I’ll Never Say Goodbye” from "The Promise." MANCHESTER starred in the national tours of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "Music Of The Night" and "Song And Dance," and she created the role of Maddy, the title character’s mother, on the NBC hit TV series "Blossom." Nominated for a Grammy in 1980 for “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” she won the GRAMMY Award for best female vocalist in 1982 singing “You Should Hear How She Talks About You.” MANCHESTER composed music for the animated features "The Great Mouse Detective" and "Lady And The Tramp II," the sequel to the Disney classic. In addition to composing the scores for the theatrical musicals "I Sent A Letter To My Love" and "Sweet Potato Queens," MANCHESTER also co-wrote the radio mainstays “Midnight Blue”, “Come In From The Rain” and “Whenever I Call You Friend.” MANCHESTER IS celebrating her fifty-year career with the release of her 25th album, "RE:VIEW," a re-envisioning of many of her nineteen Billboard charted hits . In 2021, MANCHESTER was inducted into the Great American Songbook Foundation’s Hall of Fame.
