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Michelle Lewis
Lewis in 2014
Lewis in 2014
Background information
BornNew York City
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
Years active1994–present
LabelsGiant Records
Kismet Records
Websitewww.michellelewissongs.com

Michelle Robin Lewis (born 1971 or 1972) is an American singer-songwriter 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.[1]

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.[2][3] As a child, she was a jingle singer and also a regular on Sesame Street.[4] She was raised in River Vale, New Jersey.[5]

Lewis began performing with emerging downtown NY bands such as Blues Traveler and Spin Doctors while she attended Columbia University.[6] After graduation, Lewis was hired by jazz label GRP Records as a production coordinator and then signed a publishing deal with BMG Music in 1994. While at BMG, she wrote singles for artists such as Amy Grant and Todd Terry. She also earned a Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year for "Deeper Shade of Love," a song she wrote for Camille, and an ARIA for Song of the Year with Australian pop star Deni Hines.[7]

Lewis signed with Giant Records and released her debut album, Little Leviathan, in 1998. The single "Nowhere and Everywhere" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Practical Magic.[8]

Recently, she is known best 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 this past year[when?] for her work as a composer on the Nickelodeon show, Bubble Guppies.[9]

While she continues to perform with her band, The Goods, write songs for pop radio and compose for kids’ television, Michelle's experience as a working songwriter has led her and some of her 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 wish to advocate for upholding the value of their work in the digital future.[10]

Discography

Solo

Year Album Artist Role
2001 Letters Out Loud Michelle Lewis Composer, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Primary Artist, producer, Vocals
1998 Little Leviathan Michelle Lewis Composer, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Primary Artist, producer, Vocals
1998 Nowhere & Everywhere (CD/Casset Single) Michelle Lewis Primary Artist
1994 The Jazzhole Jazzhole Songwriter, performer

Film

Year Film Role
2021 The Loud House Movie Composer, performer, Songwriter
2006 Charlotte's Web Composer
2006 Bambi II Composer, Primary Artist
2004 A Cinderella Story Composer
1998 Practical Magic Composer, performer, Primary Artist

Television

Year Show Role
2019 DC Super Hero Girls Songwriter
2018 Muppet Babies (2018) Songwriter
2016 The Loud House Composer
2013 Shake It Up Composer
2013 Doc McStuffins Composer
2008 Ruby and the Rockits Composer
2007 The Hills Composer
2006 That's So Raven Too! Composer
1998 Touched by an Angel Composer

Vocals

Year Album Artist Role
2015 Ghost Notes Veruca Salt Vocals
2012 Merry Christmas, Baby Rod Stewart Choir
The Party Starts Now (From Disney's Club Penguin) Cadence Vocals
2010 Hooked! Lucy Woodward Vocals
2003 American Juniors: Kids in America American Juniors Vocals
2002 Citizen Cope Citizen Cope Vocals
1996 The Beat is the Bomb EP Jazzhole Vocals
1995 And The Feeling Goes Round Jazzhole Vocals
1994 Bullets Over Broadway Original Soundtrack Vocals

Selected discography

Year Album – "Song" Artist Role
2015 Sometime Last Night – "What You're Missing" R5 Songwriter
2014 Disney Junior: DJ Shuffle – "Doc McStuffins" Various Songwriter
2013 BRIT Awards 2013– "Wings" Little Mix Songwriter
2012 DNA – "Wings" Little Mix Songwriter
2012 Now That's What I call Music! Vol. 83 Multiple Songwriter
2010 Il Volo – "This Time" Il Volo Songwriter
2010 Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You Katherine McPhee Songwriter
2010 Greatest Hits – "I Will Be Your Friend" Amy Grant Songwriter
2009 Plays Paper Empire – "Bright Lights" Better Than Ezra Songwriter
2009 Mitchell Musso – "Odd Man Out" Mitchell Musso Songwriter
2009 Echo (Crooked Crown) Maia Sharp Songwriter
2008 Camp Lisa Lisa Loeb Songwriter, producer, Clapping, Vocals
2007 Noise From Words Michael McDermott Songwriter
2007 Inside Out Emmy Rossum Songwriter
2007 Broken and Beautiful Suzie McNeil Songwriter
2006 Sunday Love Fefe Dobson Songwriter
2005 Traveling Light Courtney Jaye Songwriter
2005 Gold – "Different Kind of Love Song" Cher Songwriter
2005 A Little More Personal (Raw) – "My Beautiful Life" Lindsay Lohan Songwriter
2004 Greatest Hits 1986–2004 Amy Grant Songwriter
2003 Super – "Come Dig Me Out" Kelly Osbourne Songwriter
2003 The Very Best of Cher Cher Songwriter
2002 Living Proof – "Different Kind of Love Song" Cher Songwriter
1999 Pay Attention – "It's Alright" Deni Hines Songwriter
1998 Remix Your Imagination – "It's Alright" Deni Hines Songwriter, Vocals (Background)
1998 Female Hits of the 90's – "Nowhere and Everywhere" Michelle Lewis Songwriter, performer
1997 Todd Terry Presents Ready for a New Day Todd Terry Songwriter
1997 Greatest Hits – "Think About Me" Eternal Songwriter
1997 Behind the Eyes Amy Grant – "I Will Be Your Friend" Songwriter, Vocals (Background)
1997 Before the Rain – "Think About Me" Eternal Songwriter
1996 Songs of the Letter People Various Vocalist

[11]

References

  1. ^ "Future 25: Kay Hanley and Michelle Lewis, Co-Directors of Songwriters of North America". Rolling Stone. September 30, 2019.
  2. ^ Nager, Larry (March 21, 1997). "Commercial Breakthrough: Annette Sanders Trades Studio Work for Club Dates". The Cincinnati Enquirer Weekend. p. 39. Retrieved December 18, 2022.
  3. ^ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ5F-63L : 7 January 2021), Annette Benbasset in household of Joseph Benbasset, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 3-256, sheet 62A, line 5, family 116, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2467.
  4. ^ Mike Joyce (August 14, 1998). "MICHELLE LEWIS: "LITTLE LEVIATHAN"". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  5. ^ Gavin, John A. "Workshops on words give clue to future", The Record, March 3, 2000. Accessed January 6, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Lewis, the recording artist, had similar advice as she told students how she sat in the same classrooms in the mid-1980s. Now 28, Lewis lives in Manhattan, has written songs for prime-time television, and just cut her first CD. Yet she said she didn't want to miss the opportunity to come back to River Vale and talk to students who might have the same dream she had."
  6. ^ "Michelle Lewis Letters Out Loud". www.michellelewis.com. Archived from the original on October 29, 2001. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  7. ^ "Michelle Lewis Letters Out Loud". www.michellelewis.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2005. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  8. ^ "Practical Magic (1998) - IMDb". IMDb.
  9. ^ "Michelle Lewis – PopTech". Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  10. ^ http://www.michellelewissongs.com/about3.html Michelle Lewis Website – About Page
  11. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michelle-lewis-mn0000888794/songs List of all songs throughout career

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