Melanie Fontana

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Melanie Joy Fontana, born in Newington, Connecticut, is a singer/songwriter signed to Rondor/Universal and David Foster & Jaymes Foster. She was first managed by M.O.A.M Management"" - brothers Nael and Nasri Atweh. She is now managed by Nils Gums of The Complex Music Management.

Melanie has sung, written & co-written songs with David Foster, Justin Bieber ("Home This Christmas"), Rod Stewart "Merry Christmas Baby"), Lemonade Mouth ("Don't Stop The Revolution), Girls Generation ("Stay Girls^[1]"), Karmin, Christina Milian, Adam Irigoyen, Victoria Duffield, Christina Grimmie, Astrid Smeplass ("Shattered")^[2] which stayed #1 on iTunes for almost 7 days. Melanie has also worked with Rodney Darkchild Jerkins, Skyelab Studios and Pras of the Fugees. In 2013, the song "Nothing Really Matters",^[3] co-written by STIX of Fly Panda & released by TyDi/Universal Republic was debuted on Billboard.^[4] It is spinning on SirusXM 20on20^[5] as well as many mainsteam FM stations internationally. It reached #40 on the Japanese iTunes chart.

Melanie co-wrote the theme song to the PBS show "Shelter Me." Shelter Me is a family-friendly PBS show, hosted by Katherine Heigl, that celebrated the human-animal bond. The series focuses on shelter animal success stories, to hopefully bring more people into the shelters to give animals a second chance. Not only did Melanie co-write and perform the song, the show itself is named after the song.

The theme song, "Shelter Me (Love is Everything)," was written by Austin Bis, Melanie Fontana and Daniel Walker. It is performed by Melanie Fontana.

Some of her early parody songs, "Married Ladies", "New England Gurls" & the song "Paris' Sweet Escape" co-written by Gary Craig, received nationwide airplay on CBS radio/SiriusXM.

Television

Melanie's appeared on Say What Karaoke, TRL, Love Monkey, The Flight of the Conchords, Live at the Apollo and Rescue Me.

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