Melanie Fiona is Soulful and Sassy

Melanie Fiona's parents immigrated to Canada from Guyana in the late 1970s, a few years before she was born. She grew up in a musical household; her mother sang at home and her father was a professional guitarist. At around 16, Melanie began writing her own songs, and two years later, she became a member of an all-girl singing group called X-Quisite. Although the group didn't last, Melanie continued to perform, mostly in clubs in the Toronto area. In 2005, she traveled to Los Angeles in the hopes of being signed by a major record label.

While working on getting her own singing career off the ground in the mid-2000s, Melanie gain work as a songwriter, co-writing tracks for Rihanna and Kardinal Offishall, among others. In 2007, she was signed to Universal Motown subsidiary SRC Records. She also recorded a reggae song called "Somebody Come Get Me" under the stage name Syren Hall. The song was included on the 2008 Reggae Gold compilation.

Fiona is a dramatic soprano. Her voice has been referred to as being both "soulful" and "sassy." Some have praised her vocals for being "very passionate, but clean and controlled, and not over-the-top singing."

Her debut album, The Bridge, was released in June 2009. The album spawned four singles in the U.S., the most successful of which, "It Kills Me," reached No. 1 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and stayed there for 10 weeks. In her native Canada, the biggest hit from the album was the first single, "Give It To Me Right," which reached No. 20 on the Canadian charts. Her second album, The MF Life, was released in summer 2011.

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