Welcome to MelanieFontana

Meet Melanie Joy Fontana!

Melanie Fontana is an award winning 20 year old singer/songwriter/actress/dancer originally hailing from Newington, CT, and currently residing in New York City.

Melanie has a 5 octave vocal range and a bold, soulful voice that has been compared to the vocal abilities of Teena Marie, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston as well as Christina Aquilera. Although her genre is considered pop/r & b/rock, she is capable of singing ALL genres and can perform Broadway tunes, to rock selections and has even demo’d a couple of country tunes for songwriter Joe Dansereau of Nashville.

Melanie has received awards for both her vocal abilities and her songwriting. She has been featured in press articles, as well as radio station performances and interviews, including being a live vocalist and being interviewed by WTIC-FM in Hartford, Connecticut, MORE94 FM in Nassau, Bahamas, and via phone with www.tynefm.com in the U.K. Melanie has had selected songs played on www.tynefm.com, - United Kingdom; WMEL (PopGarden Radio) -Melbourne, Florida; and Q107- Cape May, New Jersey.

Most recently, she was featured with a parody song that was co-written by DJ Gary Craig on WTIC-FM, Hartford, CT. This song received nationwide air play from Connecticut to Chicago to Hawaii as well as other radio markets.

She has performed at various locations, including the World Famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NY, at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland for the Baltimore Orioles, as well as CBGB's, The Bitter End, as well as the Duplex Theater all of NYC.

She has performed at local coffee houses, lounges, for community affairs, national anthem singer for minor league ball teams in CT, and at private parties. Melanie was named the first "Connecticut Idol" in October of 2002 by WTIC-FM Radio. She has appeared on and been a winning episode contestant/vocalist and a semi-finalist on MTV’s “Say What Karaoke”, and was also a contestant/vocalist on MTV's Total Request Live. She has done acting recently, being a featured extra on CBS/Sony (then VH-1’s) “Love Monkey“, Fox Television‘s “The Wedding Bells“, and HBO’s “The Flight of the Conchords."

Melanie has 7 years of studio experience behind her. She has done demo singing at Trod Nossel Studios, Wallingford, CT; at Rooster Studios in Hamden, CT; one demo recording for Pitch Black Productions, Atlanta, GA; at Skyelab Studios, NYC; at Schoolhouse Music, Randolph, MA; at The Demo Center, NYC; Pitch Black Records, Roosevelt Island, NY; and For several different producers at Sony Studios, NYC.

Melanie is a member of both AFTRA and ASCAP.

Click here to download Melanie's Resume.