Melle Mel

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Melle Mel

Melle Mel (actually: Melvin Glover , born May 15, 1961 in the Bronx , New York City ) is an American hip-hop musician.

Career

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Downtown (with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis , Eric Nally, Kool Moe Dee & Grandmaster Caz )
  DE 30th 04.09.2015 (15 weeks)
  AT 45 09/11/2015 (12 weeks)
  CH 48 09/06/2015 (9 weeks)
  UK 11 09/10/2015 (23 weeks)
  US 12 09/12/2015 (20 weeks)

Melle Mel became famous as a member of the group Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five . In their best-known title The Message, he raps alongside frontman Grandmaster Flash . After Flash left, he became a front-line figure himself and called himself Grandmaster Melle Mel . The group made an appearance in the film Beat Street . From 1984 he worked with other artists, for example rapping Chaka Khan's worldwide chart hit I Feel for You . In 1988 another album was released by the reunited group around Grandmaster Flash called On the Strength . In 1989 he was involved in Quincy Jones ' album Back on the Block . Melle Mel's debut album Muscles was only released in 2007, but it missed the charts.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
personal data
SURNAME Melle Mel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glover, Melvin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hip hop musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York