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Her next full length album The Velvet Lounge, consisting of 13 jazz standards, was launched on April 26, 2018 at Montreal's House of Jazz.

Melina launched her first full-length album Hold On in September 2011 at Upstairs Jazz in Montreal.

In 2010, with the help of Artists Alliance Productions in association with Global NTT, Melina started producing the regular series called Acoustic Nights Montreal, which take place in various venues in Montreal every two months and showcase a different set of five or six singer/songwriters (in solo/duo/trio acts) who perform their original music acoustically, without the help of electronic enhancements. Artists such as SuLE, Patrick Lehman and Sabrina Correa, to name just a few, have been featured, alongside Melina.

From 2006 until 2008 Melina was a regular member of the cast of the Belluscious Girls, a Montreal cabaret troupe that have performed at many events, such as La Relève en folie 2006 fund raiser.

As part of the RapSohD organization, Melina met and later performed as a guest artist in two concerts (March 2005 and May 2009) given by Lorraine Klaasen.

After high-school she went on to Marianopolis College in Montreal to get a double diploma in Music and Science (2005). Subsequently, she received a Bachelor of Music from McGill University in Montreal (2008) and has received the ARCT from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In the spring of 2015 Melina achieved an MBA from Concordia University's John Molson School of Business.

She entered and won the 2001 RapSohD Talented Teen Competition., and went on to represent Canada at the Hal Jackson Talented Teens International (HJTTI) Scholarship Competition in New York later that same year. There she performed one of her early original songs and won the Wilda Labrie Scholarship. At the HJTTI competition she met a young guest artist who has greatly inspired her ever since, Alicia Keys.

At the age of 15 she was briefly part of a rock band (Fubar), together with 2 high-school friends, and they entered the Granby Note Festival 2000 (for music students of all ages) where they won gold medals for performing one of Melina's early original songs and some classic rock covers. Later in 2000 Melina and the other two band members (Brandon Posner and Eliott Hayut) won the Pfizer Young Achiever Award.

Born (May 17, 1985) and raised in Montreal, Melina started composing and recording music for various school projects in high-school.