Biography: Matt White, Maurice Jarre, Max Steiner, Maxwell Anderson, Megan K. Hey, Melanie B., Melanie Chisholm, Melina Mercouri, Meredith Erlewine, Meredith Willson,

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Contemporary singer/songwriter Matt White is a melodic vocalist with a knack for intimate adult alternative pop Growing up in Englewood, NJ, White spent much of his youth in and around New York City

Maurice Jarre Biography, Photos, Pictures

Film music composer Maurice Jarre attended the University of Lyons, then went to Paris, where he studied engineering at the Sorbonne before entering the Paris Conservatoire to study composition and percussion

Austrian-born film composer Max Steiner was the grandson of the musical impresario who discovered Strauss and brought Offenbach to Vienna Growing up with a rich heritage of opera and symphony all about him, Steiner developed into a musical prodigy; at the age of thirteen he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Music, completing the course in one year and winning the Gold Medal of the Emperor

Maxwell Anderson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Maxwell Anderson is far better known as a playwright than a composer, but his collaborations with German-born composer Kurt Weill added several classic standards to the popular song lexicon

Megan K. Hey Biography, Photos, Pictures

MK Hey is a writer and music professional living in Los Angeles Born in Pennsylvania, she’s also lived in Arizona, Oregon, New York as well as California She’s been in and out of four universities, plays as many instruments and digs travel

Pop singer and television personality Melanie B (aka Scary Spice) is best known as a member of the ’90s all-girl pop group the Spice Girls Born Melanie Janine Brown in Leeds, England, in 1975, Brown was interested in performing from a young age and attended the Intake High School Arts College in Leeds

Melanie Chisholm Biography, Photos, Pictures

The world-famous Sporty Spice, singer Melanie Chisholm was born January 12, 1975, in Liverpool, England; a onetime session vocalist and ballet dancer, in March of 1994 she answered an advertisement for an all-girl vocal group, and with fellow applicants Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams, and Melanie Brown formed the nucleus of what later (with the addition of fifth member Emma Bunton) became the Spice Girls

Melina Mercouri Biography, Photos, Pictures

Christened “the last Greek goddess” by her many fans, Melina Mercouri was best known as an actress and cultural activist, but was also a talented singer who recorded successfully in multiple languages

Meredith Erlewine Biography, Photos, Pictures

Meredith Erlewine is the daughter of Guitar Player columnist Daniel Erlewine She is a junior at Ohio University, a bicyclist, and a lover of live musicDesert Island PicksThe BeatlesDavid BowieThe Rolling StonesPhishBob DylanNeil YoungMudhoneyPublic EnemyThe Grateful DeadDonald FagenThe Red Hot Chili PeppersJimi Hendrix, All Music Guide

Meredith Willson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Active in music since the early ’20s, songwriter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Meredith Willson is best-known for his Broadway scores for The Music Man (1957) and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960), and as the composer of the holiday standard “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

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