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| Born | New York City |
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| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Giant Records Kismet Records |
| Website | www |
Michelle Robin Lewis (born 1971or1972) 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]
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] 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. [7]
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 . [8] 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. From 2006 to 2009, Lewis and Jill 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. [9] [10]
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 . [11]
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. [12]
| Year | Album | Artist | Role |
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| 2001 | Letters Out Loud | Michelle Lewis | Vocals, guitar, composer, producer |
| 1998 | Little Leviathan | Michelle Lewis | |
| 1994 | The Jazzhole | Jazzhole | Songwriter, performer |
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | The Loud House Movie | Composer, performer, songwriter |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web | Composer |
| 2006 | Bambi II | Composer, performer |
| 2004 | A Cinderella Story | Songwriter |
| 1998 | Practical Magic | Performer, songwriter |
| Year | Show | Role |
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| 2019 | DC Super Hero Girls | Songwriter |
| 2018 | Muppet Babies | 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 |
| 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 ) | DJ Cadence | Vocals | |
| 2010 | Hooked! | Lucy Woodward | Vocals |
| 2003 | Kids in America | American Juniors | Vocals |
| 2002 | Citizen Cope | Citizen Cope | Vocals |
| 1996 | The Beat is the Bomb | Jazzhole | Vocals |
| 1995 | And The Feeling Goes Round | Jazzhole | Vocals |
| 1994 | Bullets Over Broadway | Original Soundtrack | Vocals |
| Year | Album – "Song" | Artist | Role |
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| 2024 | Super Magick — "This Time" | Better Than Ezra | Songwriter |
| 2015 | Sometime Last Night – "What You're Missing" | R5 | Songwriter |
| 2012 | DNA – "Wings" | Little Mix | Songwriter |
| 2010 | Il Volo – "This Time" | Il Volo | Songwriter |
| 2010 | Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You – "It's Not Christmas Without You" | Katherine McPhee | Songwriter |
| 2009 | Paper Empire – "Bright Lights" | Better Than Ezra | Songwriter |
| 2009 | Mitchell Musso – "Odd Man Out" | Mitchell Musso | Songwriter |
| 2009 | Echo (Crooked Crown) – "Where Do I Begin" | Maia Sharp | Songwriter |
| 2008 | Camp Lisa – "Going Away", "Wake Up Song", "Best Friend", "When It Rains", "It's Not Goodbye" | Lisa Loeb | Songwriter, producer, vocals |
| 2007 | Noise From Words – "No Words", "All My Love" | Michael McDermott | Songwriter |
| 2007 | Inside Out – "High" | Emmy Rossum | Songwriter |
| 2007 | Broken and Beautiful – "Broken and Beautiful" | Suzie McNeil | Songwriter |
| 2006 | Sunday Love – "Get You Off", "Hole" | Fefe Dobson | Songwriter |
| 2005 | Traveling Light – "Traveling Light", "Hanalei Road", "Love Song (For Everyone)" | Courtney Jaye | Songwriter |
| 2005 | A Little More Personal (Raw) – "My Beautiful Life" | Lindsay Lohan | Songwriter |
| 2003 | Shut Up – "Come Dig Me Out" | Kelly Osbourne | Songwriter |
| 2002 | Living Proof – "A Different Kind of Love Song" | Cher | Songwriter |
| 1998 | Remix Your Imagination – "It's Alright" | Deni Hines | Songwriter, vocals |
| 1997 | Ready for a New Day – "Live Without You" (featuring Jocelyn Brown) | Todd Terry | Songwriter |
| 1997 | Behind the Eyes – "I Will Be Your Friend" | Amy Grant | Songwriter, vocals |
| 1997 | Before the Rain – "Think About Me" (featuring Basil Reynolds) | Eternal | Songwriter |
| 1996 | Songs of the Letter People | Various | Vocalist |
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