Harper's Bazaar - April 1998
"Melissa Levis tailors her one-of-a-kind ditties for the rich and famous"
Levis has carved out a lucrative niche on New York"s charity benefit and dinner-party circuit, performing witty, customized three-minute ideas that both praise and poke fun at the excesses of Manhattan's highrollers. The singer-songwriter, who shares a love of witticisms with her aunt, playwright Wendy Wasserstein, has crooned to Jonathan Tisch aboard the QE2 as well as for publicist Peggy Siegal. For bigwigs with the Mercedes S600, the Gulfstream V and the Hermes wardrobe, Levis' personalized ditties have become that prized offering - an original girl.

The New York Post - April 1998
"This Diva Sings Your Praises"
Melissa Levis is making sweet music - as a high-society songstress. The 28-year-old Manhattanite writes and performs witty, tailor-made songs for glitzy parties, corporate galas, weddings, birthdays and special occasions. "I'm the chanteuse to the power elite," said Levis ... "They go to great expense to make their parties unique and I’ve become the new caviar. It's the perfect gift."

Crain's New York Business - August 1997
"Ditties Made For Firms"
The 27-year-old Manhattanite has parlayed her songwriting skills into an unusual business -- performing made-to-order ditties at fund-raisers, private parties and corporate galas. Over the past three years, she has serenaded everyone from Loews Hotel chief Jonathan Tisch to outgoing Brown University President Vartan Gregorian .... Now Ms. Levis and a friend are working on a new venture, Music on Hold. Their goal: to convince companies to replace phone line Muzak with corporate jingles written by Ms. Levis.

New York Magazine - June 1997
"Your Life in Three Minutes: It Could Be Verse"
The "Page Six" party, a different power sector from her usual uptown scene, is Levis's third event this week and her second of the evening. Earlier at lawyer Michael Kennedy's 60th birthday party, she'd taken the stage after roasts by O.J. Lawyer Barry Scheck and former senator and presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy .... She has earned her upper-crust bona fides, with years spent at Middlesex and Brown University. For Jerry Finkelstein, she called his best friends Al D'Amato and Barbara Walters ... She's at ease singing for Bianca Jagger and Peggy Siegal, and considers her subjects friends, often joining them for dessert after the songs.

The New York Times - August 1996
When you are the lead singer of the hottest rock group in the Hamptons, you perform at the hottest places, which is why Melissa Levis of "Melissa and the Moguls" sang "The Star Spangled Banner" before the Bridgehampton polo matches last weekend.

Avenue - June 1996
"Boardroom Boogie"
Between gigs at Tatou, Au Bar, and The Bottom Line, Melissa Levis, half reporter, half society troubadour, has made a name for herself singing customized songs at bashes for Jonathan Tisch, Susan Magrino, and the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.