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A Jane of all trades, Melody has worked professionally as a recording artist, creative and PR writer, songwriter, model,
dancer, puppeteer and in her spare time creates art and imprint designs for a cafepress store. She has been a guest radio
DJ in New York and also aspires to act. Her ambition should not surprise, for she has had some pretty big shoes to fill. Melody
is by blood, the daughter of country-bluegrass legend and founding member of The Grand Ole Opry Jimmy Cook--the 18th of his
20 known children, including two sets of twins and a set of triplets. [He was best known for his work with Roy Acuff-with
whom he recorded "Wabash Cannonball", Ferlan Husky-with whom he recorded "On The Wings Of A Dove", and Hank Williams Sr.-with
whom he recorded "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain". He is also remembered for his boyhood friendship with Elvis Presley and founding
both a record company and radio station WJDC in the 1950's.] She is also the maternal grand-daughter of early NYC Radio star
and Rainbow Room Chanteuse Elsie Bramer (also of "Jerry And The Delmars"). Following in the same family musical tradition
as singer-songwriter and pianist, she writes both country and pop/dance music. Also a pr writer and aspiring actress, Melody
first made a name for herself in New York in the early 90's while still in her teens. She appeared as a guest on two national
televison talk shows, toured with members of Public Enemy and won several awards, including Long Islands Teen Talent Competition
(sponsored by Newsday and WLIH Radio), New Yorks Star Quest Competition (landing a modeling and music contract with the Dixon
agency) and was the years final solo vocal winner in the Jutebox Cafe's Talent Search (sponsored by Sony Music and WBAB FM
Radio.) As a song-writer and back up dancer she has worked with Rudolph Valentino cousin Ian Crawford (also appearing as a
bar girl in his music video for the song "Do You Like What You See?"), among others, and most recently co-wrote Bylli Crayone's
top ten club hit Dizzi Boi. As a journalist she has won minor awards, her work included in anthologies, and in several major
publications-most recently the Boston Globe. In addition to doing PR for other entertainers and freelance for smaller record
labels, she is presently both penning her memoirs and working on an authorized celebrity biography. She aspires to act, having
in 1993 landed the lead in a tv movie, opposite Rosie O'Donnell. Although the project closed early in production due to a
lack of sufficient funding, she showed the industry that she had among her other talents, serious acting chops. She has earned
the distinction of being named one of entertainments top 100 acts, added to the plaque hanging on the wall of Long Island's
great comedy club "The White House Inn", alongside comedy greats Jerry Seinfeld, Rosie O'Donnell and Eddie Murphy. Her early
performance opening for Andreus 13 in 1990 is remembered in a published work about the career of Public Enemy and she is hailed
for her "uncommon versitility", in director-producer Richard Dixons's forthcoming hollwood how-to "The Talent Factor". Her
personal and professional pursuits have been the subject of several articles in Suffolk Life, The New York Daily News, The
Weekender and New York Newsday. Melody hopes to prove herself worthy of the legacy she's inherited and worthy of success in
her own right.
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