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Melba Moore was born as Beatrice Melba Hill on the 29th October 1945, in New York City, USA, and is probably best recognized for being a singer, who has released over 20 studio albums, including “Look What You’re Doing To The Man” (1971), “Burn” (1979), and “Soul Exposed” (1990). She is also known as an actress, starring in such TV and film titles as “The Love Boat” (1979-1984), “Falcon Crest” (1987), “The Fighting Temptations” (2003), etc. Her career has been active since 1967.

So, have you ever wondered how rich Melba Moore is, as of mid- 2016? According to authoritative sources that the total size of Melba’s net worth is over $30,000, accumulated through her successful involvement in the entertainment industry not only as a singer, but also as an actress.

Melba Moore was brought up in Harlem, New York by her father, Teddy Hill, a well-known saxophonist, and her mother, Bonnie Davis, a singer. When she was nine years old, her mother remarried to Clement Leroy Moorman – a jazz pianist – so they moved to Newark, New Jersey, where she attended the High School for Performing Arts, matriculating in 1958. Upon graduation from Montclair (NJ) State College, she began to work as a music teacher, but soon after she made a decision to pursue her career in the entertainment industry.

Thus, Melba’s professional musical career began in 1970, when her debut studio album came out under the name “I Got Love”, and two years later she released “Melba Moore Live!”. In 1975, she signed a contract with Buddah Records, and the first album which was released for this label was “Peach Melba”, which received positive critiques, and encouraged her to continue further with career, also increasing her net worth to a large degree.

In the following year, Melba’s career reached a whole new level, as her next album – “This Is It” and the title single – reached No. 91 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play, and No. 9 on the UK charts. By the 1980s, she had released four albums, increasing further her net worth.

In the next decade, Melba signed a contract with Capitol Records, and released the single “Love’s Comin’ At Ya”, peaking No. 2 on the US Dance, and No. 5 on the US R&B charts. Other albums and singles which she released during the 1980s include “What A Woman Needs” (1981), “Read My Lips” (1985), “A Little Bit More” (1986), among others. To speak further about her musical career, in the 2000s, Melba released “I’m Still Here” (2003), “The Gift Of Love” (2009), and “Love Is” (2011). Her net worth was certainly rising.

Thanks to her accomplishments in the music industry, Melba has been nominated for a Grammy Award four times, in the categories – Best New Artist, Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance – Female, Best Female Rock Vocal. She won the prestigious Sandy Hosey Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.

Apart from her successful career as a singer, she is also recognized as an actress, Melba’s professional acting career beginning in 1967, when she began performing on Broadway, selected for the role of Dionne in the musical “Hair”, starring alongside Diane Keaton and Ronnie Dyson. This role was followed by an appearance as Lutiebelle in the musical “Prulie”, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical in 1970, which helped increase her net worth by a large margin. Thanks to that, she was chosen for two big-screen roles in films “The American Woman: Portraits Of Courage” (1976), and “Hair” (1979). She has also starred in other TV and film titles, such as “Ellis Island” (1984) portraying Flora Mitchum, “Melba” – her own TV series in 1986 – and “Def By Temptation” (1990) as Madam Sonya, among others, all of which added a considerable amount to her net worth.

Most recently, she featured in the film “The Fighting Temptations” (2003) alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles, and it is announced that Melba will appear in the film “Tobacco Valley” in 2016.

Regarding her personal life, Melba Moore was married to business promoter Charles Huggins from 1975 to 1991; they have one child. She has not re-married.

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Melba Moore Quotes

• [about her breakup with Clifton Davis]: It was devastating to break up, because I thought I found the love that was going to be there for the rest of my life, and everybody would just kind of tore apart of me away.
• [on John P. Kee]: I love John P. Kee. This song illustrates the classic power of what gospel is and conveys that there is a God and that no matter what is going on, you will be alright. Chris Davis did a great arrangement on the song which just drives you into a higher place. The chord changes just pull you up and hopefully Phil and I do too.
• [when she paid homage to Dionne Warwick]: Dionne Warwick has a certain sound and feeling in her voice that is completely her own. She does not sound like anyone else. I tried to capture the sweet smooth charisma of her voice.
• Music is what God allows me to do. Music was a centerpiece in my family. My parents were musicians and so were many of my aunts and uncles.
• [who confesses about keeping the faith]: Everybody’s got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream how you gonna have a dream come true? At the same time, all things come to an end and you have to be able to reinvent yourself. You either have to change or die. I just know that and I am willing to surrender before it kills me!
• [on her true calling]: Singing is my ministry and my art. Music is what God allows me to do and the opportunity came now and it feels right! When I was asked to do this project and collaborate with Phil Perry, I said ‘heck yeah!’ With Phil everything is there – power, a certain freshness, emotion, artistry and an incredible range!
• [about focusing on gospel music]: I’ve had such a struggle to re-direct myself. I need to find out who I am as an artist. We let God re-create us.
• [on being a born-again Christian]: As the years went by, we saw the devastation that has come upon us because of sexual immorality. And we had no idea that our popularizing taking drugs was going to be so devastating. I regret that. But I know that, with every age, we make mistakes.
• [when believing that “Hair,” would dealt with such topics as: drugs, sexism, racism, politics, among many others]: I think it’s still excellent as an example of the period. But I feel, as a mature artist now, that you have a responsibility to try to reflect the best. We have the same difficulties with gangster rap and all that: we took the lowest aspect of society and glamorized it. But again, I can’t condemn. I can say, ‘Please forgive me for not knowing better. Now I’ll try to do better.’
• Winning the Grammy is the highest critical accolade, which says your peers respect what you’ve achieved. For me, it meant I was now free to explore and grow. I always smile and say, ‘I’m still here, not in the mainstream radar, but you need to catch up to me.’

Melba Moore Important Facts

• Stepdaughter of Clem Moorman.
• Did a lot of session singing in the 1960s, including “Sunny” by Bobby Hebb in 1966. Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson also sang on the track.
• Won Broadway’s 1970 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for “Purlie,” which launched her TV and recording career.
• Recorded “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which was entered into the Congressional Record and is now the official African-American national anthem.
• Studied piano and voice at the High School for Performing Arts and received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Montclair (NJ) State College.
• Her mother was a singer and her father played saxophone and ran the popular jazz club Mitten’s Playhouse in Harlem.
• Formerly a schoolteacher
• Legendary for possessing a four-octave vocal range.
• In 1996 took over the role of Fantine in “Les Miserables” on Broadway, the first black actress to play that role.
• After ten years, she is putting out a new album of gospel songs (2002).
• Has a one woman show in 1998-“Sweet Songs: A Journey In One Life
• She went on welfare in 1992 and was shunned by her friends. Her daughter left her and moved in with Bill Cosby’s family.
• Daughter of vocalist Bonnie Davis.

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