Melissa Forbes

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Music, University of Southern Queensland

Melissa Forbes is a singer, educator and music researcher. She has released two albums, No More Mondays (2005) and The Intimacy of Distance (2014). Her research focuses on experiences of singing, from the community singer to professional performers. In a former life, she was a corporate lawyer of little renown.

Written by Melissa Forbes

Photo of a woman singing passionately into a microphone wearing a sparkling black and gold dress on a dark stage.
MUSIC

The jazz singer’s mind shows us how to improvise through life itself

Be more jazz: by letting go and embodying the present, you can learn to transform the mundane into the transcendent

by Melissa Forbes