Melissa Ferrick
Melissa Ferrick (born September 21, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter. She is a music professor at Northeastern University and at Berklee College of Music.
Melissa Ferrick
September 21, 1970
Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States
Folk-Rock
Singer-songwriter
Guitar, vocals
1991–present
Atlantic Records
What Are Records?
Right On Records
MPress Records
Early life[edit]
Ferrick was raised in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Her father John was a public school teacher who managed several free-jazz bands on the side. As a child, Ferrick would often accompany her father to clubs on Boston's North Shore to watch the bands play.[1] She began taking classical violin lessons at the age of five, and then moved on to the piano. In elementary and junior high school, she learned the trumpet and bass. Altogether, she received 15 years of formal music training, including two years at Berklee College of Music. She dropped out to pursue a music career.[2]
