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About Me

Melissa Ivey songs from her CD "Lovers and Stars"
It's the voice.
Yes, there are also her Latina good looks, but it's the Melissa Ivey voice that is particularly memorable: sultry, self-assured, upbeat, seductive.
She got her start in music at nine when a musician came to her school and inspired her to take violin lessons. At 13 she picked up her mother's bass guitar and taught herself to play. At 14, it switched the electric guitar. A year later, she stumbled across a pick-up band practicing in a storage room and within a year won their high school talent contest. The band was called Manic Notion, and became one of the top punk bands based in San Jose.
In 2002, she moved to Denver and started singing at open mic nights and built up a loyal following of fans. After 3 years of working in local clubs, she became known as one of the hottest talents in Denver, and in 2005 was voted Number 1 by the readers of Westword Magazine in the Singer/Songwriter category.
February 2006 - After a year of touring and nonstop songwriting, Melissa chose 5 songs to record. The title song "Lovers and Stars" got airplay right away on Denver's classic rock station, KQMT (99.5 FM The Mountain) on Jake Schroeder's Mountain Homegrown hour to rave reviews. KTCL (93.3 FM) soon followed suite, local DJ Alf also heard the magic and included the track on his weekly show.
Dave Herrera's (music editor -Westword magazine) local Beatdown dedicated an entire article to Melissa and the song. To quote Dave "this delicious pop ditty hits a sweet spot with me like no recording since the Fray's early demos. It's a quantum leap beyond anything she's produced before - a track that evokes Mary Lou Lord as much as it does Sheryl Crow -- Ivey's most polished effort to date." Ivey was named Best Singer/Songwriter again in 2006 by Westword, Colorado's major alternative weekly.
By the end of 2006, more opportunitues opened up and she landed a lead role in a cartoon series in Spain. While in Madrid, she studied Spanish and sang with Europe's top recording stars. In 2007, she licensed her first song to a TV show, and is currently working on new songs and recordings. Her musical career as a songwriter and performer has taken off as more TV and film producers request her original songs. She will begin performing again in the late 2007.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/8/2004
Band Website: MelissaIvey.com
Band Members: Melissa Ivey
Influences: Ani Difranco, Concrete Blonde, Janis Joplin,
Sounds Like: Rilo Kiley, Tegan and Sara
Record Label: Ivey Productions LLC
Type of Label: None

My Blog

I'm not retired!!!

So I keep getting these phone calls of friends who ask me why i'm not playing shows or why i'm not out n about in the Denver Music scene. Here is the truth from the Singers mouth. I've been playing we...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:55:00 PST

Nominated Best Singer Song writer!

So just as i'm getting settled back into Denver life for a while before the next big adventure I get this news..... Third Nomination by Westword magazine! For the third year in a row, Me...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:19:00 PST

Memorial Day.

I had this uncle Sam that used to write me all the time. He was a WWII fighter pilot. He would tell me all these crazy stories about the war and about the people fighting for our country before I ever...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Mon, 28 May 2007 10:05:00 PST

Fuego o no fuego...esta la pregunta

Today, I woke up late and decided to miss my first class and sleep in, it was review and i've been studing so hard so I didn't feel too guilty about it. I went to make breakfast and could have sw...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:06:00 PST

Escuela en Espana is muy loco!

So I have a confession to make... if you have writen me in the past four months via mysapce it was not me. It was my best friend whom I some how conned into taking over my myspace page,hence no g...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:52:00 PST

Lovers and stars

Friends, I have been waiting for this week for month's if not years... Most of you probably met me years ago as a solo performer beating on my old Ovation, peddling my music and mailing list, night ...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:56:00 PST

I hear the train a coming!!!

My friend,Happy new year and what a great year already in Denver at the Ivey Production's HQ's!!!! The band and I decided to ignore the hype of the city's luster and go the recluse route up to my uncl...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:30:00 PST

just a minute

So i'm trying to post a new song unreleased on CD for all my lovely friends. It should be up any minute now. Or so tech support tells me. It's called "Everywhere and Nowhere" I origionally wrote the m...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:01:00 PST

Melissa Ivey Rocks Battle of the Bands

Melissa Ivey Rocks Battle of the Bands Friends in the Denver area. We have been selected to participate in this years Battle of the Bands sponsored by Coors, The Westword , Benders Tavern and Glob...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:55:00 PST

Chicago

Man i love being in Chicago so much to do. I am just getting settled here then Bam i'm off to Detroit for about a second to play with Sugarspell. Sugarspell has members from Sista Otis and the Wholly ...
Posted by Melissa Ivey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST