She’s been making music for more than a decade now, following a successful career as a television actress. Now, with the help of a long-standing yoga practice, meditation, and an thoughtful new EP, Sara Melson might be coming to terms with, well, everything.
Digging into the L.A. singer-songwriter’s backstory leads into a wonderful wormhole of ’90s TV viewing. As a wide-eyed ingenue and Geena Davis doppelganger, she starred, for instance, opposite Kelsey Grammer in Fraiser and Fred Savage in The Wonder Years. But by the early aughts she was releasing her own music, and sharing the stage with the likes of Ben Folds, Juliana Hatfield and Lissie, while performing backing vocal duties for Moby and the Dandy Warhols.