Melanie Joy Fontana, born in Newington, Connecticut, is a 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. written & co-written songs with David Foster, Justin Bieber ("Home This Christmas"), f(x) ("Boom Bang Boom"), topping all 9 of South Korea's music charts. Rod Stewart "Merry Christmas Baby", the 2015 J-pop debut comeback single ("Dance In The Rain") for Kumi Koda, Lemonade Mouth ("Don't Stop The Revolution), Girls Generation ("Stay Girls"), Karmin, Christina Milian, Adam Irigoyen, Victoria Duffield, Meghan Trainor, Christina Grimmie, Astrid Smeplass ("Shattered") 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", co-written by STIX of Fly Panda & released by tyDi/Universal Republic was debuted on Billboard. It is spinning on SirusXM 20on20 as well as mainstream FM stations internationally. It reached #40 on the Japanese iTunes chart. She also penned the DJ tyDi's title track off of his 2014, ("Redefined") & also performed it. "Redefined" debuted at #9 on the US iTunes charts & 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.

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.

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

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