melanie

Introducing Melanie Fiona Currently hot new Soul/R&B artist who is prepping the release of her debut album, The Bridge on Steve Rifkin’s SRC Records. Already being tauted as Kanye West’s new “it” girl and making the Top 5 Artists to Watch in 2009 list in Entertainment Weekly, Ms. Fiona has the key ingredients necessary to be a household name by this time next year. The lead single to the album, “Give It To Me Right” (listen below), samples the Zombies’ 1968 song “Time of The Season”.

Listen to Give It To Me Right

The album is called The Bridge,” enthuses Fiona. “It crosses the barriers between ethnicities, genres, age groups, and genders. It can’t be defined as just one thing. It’s got a soul that’s something old, yet something new.” Born to Guyanese immigrant parents and growing up in a music-filled house in the inner city of Toronto, Fiona knew from the very beginning that music is what moves her. “My mother, who shares my love for music, played everything from The Ronettes to Whitney Houston around the house as I grew up. My father would let me sit on the stage while he rehearsed with his band as a guitarist. ”

Her EPK below

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