MOORE, MELBA

MOORE, MELBA (née MELBA MOORMAN). Actress/Popular-music singer (29 October 1945 in New York, New York). She came from a musical family: her mother was a singer, her father was a jazz saxophonist, and her brother Dennis became a professional jazz pianist. She obtained her education at the Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey, and at the Montclair [New Jersey] State Teachers College (B.A.). After graduation from college she taught in the local high school for two years,...