Melanie Fontana

Melanie Fontana
Origin	Newington, Connecticut, United States
Genres	Pop, Country, R&B, urban
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Years active	2011–present
Associated acts	Justin Bieber, Meghan Trainor, Ron Fair, David Foster, TyDi, Jordan Knight, Nick Carter, Aaron Carter, Josh Kelley, F(x), Girls Generation, Kumi Koda, Shawn Hook

Melanie Joy Fontana, born in Newington, Connecticut, United States, is an American singer-songwriter signed to Universal and David Foster. Formerly managed by 'M.O.A.M Management- brothers Nael and Nasri Atweh. Nasri discovered Melanie's writing ability in May 2011.

In 2015, Melanie Fontana, alongside tyDi, topped the Mediabase dance charts with their EDM track "Redefined", co-written by Priya J. Geddis. Melanie has written & co-written songs with Justin Bieber ("Home This Christmas"), f(x) ("Boom Bang Boom"), which topped all 9 of South Korea's music charts. She penned the 2015 J-pop debut comeback single of Kumi Koda Dance in the Rain Astrid Smeplass ("Shattered"), Girls Generation ("Stay Girls"). Melanie has worked with Rodney Darkchild Jerkins, David Foster, Andreas Carlsson , and Pras of the Fugees. She has worked and co-written with Karmin, Christina Milian, Adam Irigoyen, Victoria Duffield, Meghan Trainor, Christina Grimmie, among others. In 2013, the song "Nothing Really Matters",^[1] co-written by STIX of Fly Panda & released by tyDi/Universal Republic was debuted on Billboard.^[2] She also penned DJ tyDi's title track off of his 2014 album release, ("Redefined") & also performed it. "Redefined" debuted at #9 on the US iTunes chart^[3] and peaked at #4. She is associated closely with The Elev3n, Mario Marchetti Jordan Knight, JR Rotem and has been sighted working closely with Ron Fair and many of the artists signed to Virgin Records. She co-wrote the song "Hit Me Up" for Eurovision competitor Charlie Tepstad of Norway with Lars Hustoft & Jon Asher.

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

Television

Melanie co-wrote the original 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.

Melanie performs all the singing vocals on Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine. Melanie has appeared on Say What Karaoke, TRL, Love Monkey, The Flight of the Conchords, Live at the Apollo and Rescue Me.

Selected songwriting discography

2011

"Home This Christmas ft. The Band Perry" by Justin Bieber (produced by Nasri Atweh and Nick Turpin)

2012

"Don't Stop the Revolution" by Lemonade Mouth

2013

"Shattered" by Astrid S
"Chain Reaction" by Sverre Eide
"Set In Stone" by Steffen Jakobsen
"Lust or Love" by Eirik Søfteland
"Stay Girls" by Girls Generation
"GYU" by Becky

2014

"Si Je Pars" by Alex Marshall
Hit Me Up by Charlie
"Boom, Bang, Boom" by F(x)
Dance In The Rain by Kumi Koda (produced by Masaki Yokobe)

2015

"Relapse" by Shawn Hook

Featured as artist

"Love Is Everything" (Shelter Me) (Single release/ PBS TV documentary “Shelter Me” - Season One theme song) by Melanie Fontana (2012)^[4]
Merry Christmas, Baby (album) by Rod Stewart (Choir vocalist under the direction of David Foster) (2012)
"Nothing Really Matters" by tyDi (2013)^[5]
"Party, Sleep, Repeat" by Rhema Soul Feat. Gawvi (2013)
"Gold Grill BBQ" by Krysta Youngs Feat. Laganja Estranja (2014)^[6]
"Moment Of Peace" by Constant Flow Feat. Immortal Technique (Produced by Toure "Southpaw" Harris) (2014)^[7]
"Fireflies" by John Dahlbäck (2014)
"Bells At Midnight" by Thomas Newson & Otto Orlandi (2014)^[8]
"Redefined" by tyDi (2014)^[9]
"Dripping Gold" by Lace Up (2015)
*"Saturday" by Simple Plan (background vocalist) 2015

Television and voice over

Vocals for all songs on Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine animated TV series (2015)
Wrote and performed the song “Cutie Curl” for Sun Pacific / Cuties Citrus National Radio spot (2015)

References

↑ "Vote for Your Top 20 on 20 Songs Now - SiriusXM Radio". SiriusXM. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
↑ "tyDi, 'Nothing Really Matters': Exclusive Song Premiere". Billboard. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
↑ "Redefined by tyDi on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2014-09-30. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
↑ "Love Is Everything (Shelter Me) - Single by Melanie Fontana on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
↑ "Nothing Really Matters (feat. Melanie Fontana) - Single by tyDi on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2013-05-14. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
↑ "Gold Grill BBQ (feat. Laganja Estranja & Melanie Fontana) - Single by Krysta Youngs on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
↑ "Ascension by CF on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2014-09-02. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
↑ "Bells At Midnight (feat. Melanie Fontana) - Single by Thomas Newson & Otto Orlandi on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2014-12-12. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
↑ "Redefined (feat. Melanie Fontana) - EP by tyDi on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2014-11-18. Retrieved 2015-11-10.

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