Singer Melanie Safka, known as “The First Lady of Woodstock” for playing the 1969 festival at just 22 years old, who also had hits in the 1970s including “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” has died. She was 76.

Melanie’s kids, Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred confirmed her death Wednesday in a Facebook post, writing, “This is the hardest post for us to write, and there are so many things we want to say, first, and there’s no easy way except to say it … Mom passed, peacefully, out of this world and into the next on January, 23rd, 2024.”

A cause of death was not given in the Facebook post.

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