A biography for Melanie Fionahasn’t been written yet.
“I love Canada, always.”
“My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.”
“I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.”
“I'm a first-generation Canadian.”
“I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything.”
“Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.”
“When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.”
“I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.”
“I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.”
“The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.”
“The social networking sites are such good way to keep in touch with your fans, it's quick and simple and it keeps your fans interested in what you're doing.”
“I always feel like music should be a universal language.”
“Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.”
“My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.”
“Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I'm just like everybody else.”
“Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.”
“I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.”
“Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.”
“It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.”
“Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.”