Profile and Story. Her labels are SRC, Universal Motown and Roc Nation. R&B, soul and reggae are her genres. The story was written on Wikipedia, Melanie Fiona is a Canadian singer (musician). She was born July 4, 1983 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter and second child of Guyanese immigrant parents, who immigrated to Canada in the late 1970s. Her father was a janitor before working in finance, and her mother worked in banking. Fiona began writing songs at age 16.
Fiona cites Bob Marley, Sam Cooke, Sade, Whitney Houston, India.Arie and Patsy Cline as her musical influences. She also cited Mary J. Blige's career as inspirational, who she called an icon. She called Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill the album that changed her perspective, calling it an "amazing body of work". She attributes her parents for her vintage sound. Her father was a guitarist in a band, while her mother would sing around the house. She explained that "[m]y parents were big music lovers and played soul music all the time", who would play The Supremes, The Ronettes and Cooke, as well as Caribbean music like soca, calypso and reggae.
Fiona songwriting revolves around her personal experiences. She stated that she attempts to "keep [the songs] as universal as possible, unless I am writing about something very personal, even then the themes are universal". She has received comparisons to Hill, Macy Gray, Chrisette Michele, Marsha Ambrosius and Jill Scott.
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