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Michelle Lewis
Lewis in 2014
Background information
Born	New York City
Occupations	Singer songwriter composer actress
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Giant Records Kismet Records
Website	www.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.

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. 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 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 and released her debut album, Little Leviathan, in 1998. The single "Nowhere and Everywhere" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Practical Magic.

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 in 2015 for Outstanding Original Song for her work as a composer of the song "Holiday Ride" on the Nickelodeon show, Bubble Guppies at the 42nd Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

While she continues to perform with her band, The Goods, write songs for pop radio and compose for kids’ television, Lewis' experience as a working songwriter 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.

Discography

Solo

Film

Television

Vocals

Selected songwriting discography

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

External links

• Michelle Lewis at IMDb
• Official website
• https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p98249

• Living people
• American women singer-songwriters
• Jazzhole members
• Musicians from New Jersey
• People from River Vale, New Jersey