Melanie Fiona
Melanie Fiona was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 4th, 1983 and is the R&B Singer. At the age of 41, Melanie Fiona biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Melanie Fiona Hallim (born July 4, 1983) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
She was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario.
She began her career in 2002 as part of the girl group trio X-Quisite, who was nominated for a Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year for the group's self-titled album.
She went on to be part of The Renaissance (with rapper Drake), and under the name Syren Hall, recorded some reggae songs. Hallim's debut solo album The Bridge was released in 2009, having collaborated with Future Cut, Vada Nobles, Stereotypes, J. Phoenix and Peter Wade Keusch.
Her debut single, "Give It to Me Right", was sent to radio stations on February 28, 2009, and peaked at number 20 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart and number 41 on the UK Singles Chart.
The second single, "It Kills Me", became her breakout song on the Billboard Hot 100 where it entered the Top 50, along with topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
The song earned Hallim a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
The song "Monday Morning" is her biggest hit in Europe to date.
The Bridge also earned her a NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding New Artist.
In 2012, Hallim won two Grammy Awards for Best Traditional R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for the song "Fool for You" with CeeLo Green.
Personal life
Fiona and songwriter Jared Cotter have a son born on 14 March 2016. They became engaged on 14 February 2018. Originally they planned to marry on Amalfi Coast, Italy; but the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to postpone their wedding three times. The couple married privately on 12 December 2020 in Los Angeles. The couple welcomed a daughter in December 2021.
Life and career
Melanie Fiona Hallim (who goes by Melanie Fiona professionally) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 4, 1983. She is the daughter and second child of Guyanese immigrant parents who immigrated to Canada in the late 1970s. Her parents are of Afro-Guyanese, Indo-Guyanese, and Portuguese descent. Before working in finance, her father was a janitor, and her mother worked in banking. Fiona began writing songs at the age of 16. Fiona says she always knew music was her passion despite being raised in a music-filled household. Her father, who was a member of a band, would not allow her to attend the performance if she was younger as he appeared. Fiona was a member of X-Quisite in 2002, alongside Nicole Holness and Nirvana Savoury. The group, which is affiliated with Warner Music Canada, released their self-titled debut studio album X-Quisite in 2003. The group was selected as one of five finalists for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year for the album X-Quisite at the 2004 Juno Awards. The group had a number of singles from the album, including "Bad Girl" and "No Regrets." In 2005, the corporation was disbanded.
She was also involved in The Renaissance with rapper Drake. She would perform at nightclubs in Toronto early in her career. Fiona moved to Los Angeles in 2005 in search of a recording contract. According to Fiona, the way she looked and sung was "loved" by the time she worked with them or would have signed them, but she "knew" that they would have changed me into someone else entirely different. I didn't want to do this because it was something I didn't want to do." She went on to co-write songs for recording artists Rihanna and Kardinal Offishall, as well as super producer Mike City. The reggae song "Somebody Come Get Me" was also recorded under the stage name Syren Hall, which was also included on the Reggae Gold 2008 compilation album.
In 2007, Steve Rifkind, an entrepreneur, discovered and contracted Fiona to SRC Records and Universal Motown by Title 9 Productions. In the Dark Tour, she and Kanye West performed in his Glow in his debut album. Fiona met with recording artist Jay-Z and his companion Tyty before completing her debut album. She performed some of her songs and was then signed by Roc Nation to be managed. In June 2009, she released her debut album, The Bridge, which has sold 248,000 copies in the United States. Fiona was rated among the "50 Emerging Artists" of 2009 by Beyond Race Magazine. Several singles were released from the album, including "It Kills Me," which topped the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Songs chart for ten weeks and earned her a Grammy Award nomination at the 52nd Grammy Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 52nd Grammy Awards. "Sad Songs" was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download, with reggae-ting songs "Somebody Come Get Me" and "Island Boy" as B-sides, among others. In the United Kingdom, "Sad Songs" did not chart. The first official single from The Bridge was "Get It to Me Right." The song topped the charts in the United Kingdom at #41, but in the United States, it fell short of charting on the Billboard Hot 100. However, it did not make it to #57 on the US charts, reaching #57. Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, ranked at ###1, which is now at #41.
"Monday Morning" charted in Switzerland and Poland at number 1, and Austria at number 5. It was the third U.S. single, but "Bang Bang" was the second Canadian single for Canadian top 40 and hot AC play. "Monday Morning" will debut in Canada as the country's fifth single due to hot adult contemporary radio station CKZZ-FM (Virgin Radio 953) in Vancouver having the song on its playlist. According to Fiona's website and Twitter, "Ay Yo" was the fourth official single from The Bridge. On April 12, 2010, the music video premiered. Due to airplay on urban adult contemporary stations, "priceless" will be the fifth U.S. single. "Priceless" will not be announced in Canada, "Monday Morning" will be released as the fifth single on Canadian televisions, even though "Monday Morning" appeared as the third American single.
Fiona appeared on "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" to help victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. In 2010, she began touring with Alicia Keys as an opening act on The Freedom Tour. The album produced six singles, with one of them being "It Kills Me" which debuted on the US R&B charts, which earned its highest rank. Melanie Fiona's album "it kills me" and "4am" were also on the top 100 charts for her song "it kills me."[20]
Fiona's second studio album was released in 2011. "Gone and Never Coming Back" was the lead single. The single reached 37 on the US R&B chart as her second highest peaking song on the R&B chart so far. "4 AM," Fiona's second single, was released to urban stations on August 30, 2011. The song, which was at number eight on the US R&B chart, was about a lover who had been kicked out and was cheating on her. The album was released on March 20, 2012.
At Citizens Bank Park in January 2, 2012, she appeared "O Canada" at the NHL Winter Classic between the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers.
Fiona, a young independent artist, is currently working on her third album Awake. In 2013, she introduced "Cold Piece" as a single unit. She premiered "Bite the Bullet," her latest song and lyric video, on May 12, 2015, and it will be released on her new album (2016). "I feel like sometimes people know my songs but haven't had the opportunity to meet me," Fiona told the VIBE. "I want to make people feel well and I want them to feel that they are not alone, that this album and myself as an artist are a voice for people.' "I want to make people happy, and we're living it together, so let's do our part to move forward and do some really amazing things when we are here." She released two more tracks for the album in September: "I Tried" – the first track to be published on the album, and "Killing Time" – written when she broke up with her boyfriend. The album Awake is set to be released in 2016.
