With influences like Bonnie Raitt, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Tyler, and Sting, Melissa has pieced together her own unique sound â raspy rock vocals, with a bit of blues and a hint of country⦠just right.

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ROCK: Southern Rock, COUNTRY: Country Rock

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Previously singing as âMâleshaâ, Melissa Solomon has been mastering her own style for years. With influences like Bonnie Raitt, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Tyler, and Sting, Melissa has pieced together her own unique sound â raspy rock vocals, with a bit of blues and a hint of country⦠just right! Her debut album, âSteppinâ on Faithâ, showcases her songwriting and her powerful voice. She has also released the single, âDonât Let Goâ, a song written in the perspective of an unborn child wanting to live.

Singer/song writer, Melissa Solomon has been a native to the stage since she was three years old. She grew up learning to sing by mastering every Sandi Patti song made. She sang soprano with The Sojourners, her familyâs southern gospel group, traveling up and down the east coast. At age 13, she toured the United States singing with the American Christian Youth Chorale. During her high school years, Melissa sang her way to the ACDA Southern Divisional Honors Chorus. After attending the North Carolina Governorâs School for the Academically Gifted in music performance, Melissa then left for Nashville to begin her career. Skipping her senior year, Melissa went to the prestigious Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee to study Commercial Music and Music Business.

While in Nashville, Melissa worked in the marketing department for a major Christian record label, Benson Music Group. She also worked for Atkins-Muse Management marketing Christian artists to the CCM industry. She was a Research Assistant for the Creative Resource Directory and has worked events in the music business industry such as Gospel Music Association week, Christian Broadcasterâs Association week, and Country musicâs Fan Fare week. Melissa has worked as a demo singer and a background vocalist for many studios, some of which are Sound Control Studio, Nashville, TN, J & M Studio, Nashville, TN, Robert E. Mulloy Studios, Nashville, TN, Sun Sound Studio, Murfreesboro, TN, White Room Studio, Charlotte, NC, and GAT3 Studio, Charlotte, NC.

Melissa Solomon, aside from her career, does artist development in the Charlotte, NC area. Included in these services are vocal training, piano training, music theory, contract writing and reading, marketing, press kits, and music business consulting.

Check out Melissa Solomon on her website at

www.MelissaSolomonMusic.com

or on her myspace at

www.myspace.com/melissasolomonmusic


Melissa Solomon
FOR BOOKING INFORMATION CONTACT:
Integral Artist Development
13000 S. Tryon St., Ste. F113
Charlotte, NC 28278
booking@integralartistdevelopment.com