Michelle Lewis

Michelle Robin Lewis (born ) is a singer-songwriter from United States who has released two solo albums. She has since worked as a songwriter for artists including Cher, Shawn Colvin, Hilary Duff, Kay Hanley and Kelly Osbourne.

Biography

Michelle Lewis was born in New York City to saxophonist Morty Lewis and Annette Sanders (née Benbasset), a session singer for radio and TV jingles. As a child, she was a jingle singer and also a regular on ''Sesame Street''. She was raised in River Vale, New Jersey.

Lewis began performing with emerging downtown NY bands such as Blues Traveler and Spin Doctors while she attended Columbia University as a religion and psychology major. After graduation, Lewis was hired by jazz label GRP Records as a production coordinator; she then signed a publishing deal with BMG Music in 1994 for songs she was writing for her band, The Jazzhole, which was signed to Bluemoon/Atlantic Records in 1994.

While with BMG, she also wrote singles for other artists including Amy Grant and Todd Terry. "Deeper Shade of Love," a song she co-wrote for Trinidadian singer Camille Rodwell, earned a Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1996, and Australian pop star Deni Hines won an ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist for Lewis' song " It's Alright" at the 1996 ARIA Music Awards.

Lewis signed with Giant Records as a solo artist and released her debut album, '' Little Leviathan'', in 1998. The single "Nowhere and Everywhere" charted in ''Billboard'' and was featured on the soundtrack of the film ''Practical Magic''. In the summer of 1998, she appeared on some dates of the Lilith Fair tour.

Lewis' second album, ''Letters Out Loud'', was released in 2001 on Kismet Records. Relocating to Los Angeles, she joined with other women singer-songwriters, forming the ad hoc group The Dilettantes and a postmodern Andrews Sisters-style trio, The Goods. Lewis also continued to write songs for other artists, including a co-writing credit on " A Different Kind of Love Song," a No. 1 dance-pop single for Cher in 2002.

In 2006, Lewis and Jill Sobule formed The Broadband with Kay Hanley to record and release “God Save the Internet”, a song to raise awareness of and support net neutrality, an issue then facing corporate opposition and pending legislation in Congress. The song was part of a nationwide grassroots effort by the Save the Internet Coalition. From 2006 to 2009, Lewis and Sobule formalized their collaboration as "The Provocateurs", contributing commentary, opinions, and original topical and political songs to their ''Provocateurs'' blog on Yahoo! Music and to the ''Huffington Post'' blog.

In 2008, Lewis and her husband, Dan Petty, co-wrote songs with Lisa Loeb for the children's album '' Camp Lisa,'' and performed on the album. More recently, Lewis is known for creating music for the Disney Jr show ''Doc McStuffins'', which aired for five seasons, and for which she won a Peabody Award in 2015. She also received her first Emmy nomination in 2015, at the 42nd Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Original Song, as the composer of "Holiday Ride" for the Nickelodeon show '' Bubble Guppies''.

While she continues to perform with The Goods, write songs for pop radio and compose for kids’ television, Lewis' experience as a working songwriter led her and some long-time collaborators ( Kay Hanley, Shelly Peiken and Pam Sheyne) to found Songwriters of North America (SONA) – a Los Angeles-based organization of professional songwriters and composers who advocate for upholding the value of their work in the digital future.

Discography

Solo

Film

Television

Vocals

Selected songwriting discography

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michelle-lewis-mn0000888794/songs List of all songs throughout career

References

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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women singer-songwriters
Jazzhole members
Musicians from Bergen County, New Jersey
People from River Vale, New Jersey