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Tony Winner Melba Moore to Celebrate Birthday with Metropolitan Room Performance

By: Sep. 12, 2015
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Tony Award Winner and Grammy Nominee, Melba Moore will celebrate her birthday with fans on Oct 30. She will perform with he Live Band. In addition to her Tony Award, her music career brought additional accolades. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1971 for 'Best New Artist'. Her 1975 second album, Peach Melba, saw her get a Grammy nomination. In 1976, she earned another Grammy nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female for the song "Lean on Me",. Moore was also nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal in 1986 for "Read My Lips".


Moore is also the 2012 Recipient of the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival Theatre Legend Award.
Moore returned to Broadway in 1995 landing a part in LES MISERABLES. A year later, she started her long-running one-woman show, Sweet Songs of the Soul, later renamed I'm Still Standing. In 2003, Moore was featured in the film, The Fighting Temptations, which starred Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles. In 2007, she landed a role in the Broadway revival of Ain't Misbehavin'. In 2009 independent label Breaking Records released the EP Book of Dreams, in which Moore was featured. That same year Moore told her life story on TV-One's Unsung and later that year released her first R&B album in nearly 20 years, a duet release with Phil Perry called The Gift of Love. Her song called "Love Is" debuted on the R&B charts in 2011 at #87.



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