Biography
all about MELANIE MARTINEZ
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BIOGRAPHY MELANIE MARTINEZ MELANIE ADELE MARTINEZ (born April 28th, 1995) is an American singer and songwriter of the alternative genre. She first auditioned for the American television vocal talent show The Voice and became a member of Team Adam, where her popularity has grown within fans. Within the fifth week, she was eliminated which subsequently led to her beginning independent work on original material. She was inspired by many artists such as Lana Del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds, and Lorde.
EARLY LIFE Melanie was born in Astoria, Queens and raised in Baldwin, New York. At the age of 3, she realized that she enjoyed singing. She taught herself how to play guitar a year later as a four-year-old since her parents couldn’t afford guitar lessons for her. She became a songwriter at 11 and a guitar player at the age 14. As a sophomore in high school, she won the Baldwin Senior High School’s Talent Show. She began writing songs and releasing them onto YouTube, the oldest ones being Smoke, I Think I’m Crazy, and Birthing Addicts. She also covered many songs, such as The One That Got Away by Katy Perry, before joining The
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CAREER
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2012
CAREER BEGINNINGS AND THE VOICE Melanie Martinez appeared on
The Voice
during season 3. She sang Toxic by Britney Spears for her Blind Audition, and turned three chairs: Adam Levine, CeeLo Green, and Blake Shelton. Melanie chose Adam Levine, and then moved on to the battle rounds. She competed against Caitlin Michele with the song Lights by Ellie Goulding. Adam chose Melanie, who moved on to the knockout rounds. During the knockout rounds, Melanie was paired with Sam James, and she chose to sing Bulletproof by La Roux. Again, Adam chose her, who moved on to the live rounds. She chose to sing Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles for the first week of the live rounds. Public vote did not save her, but Adam picked her to keep on his team. She went on to the second week of the live rounds, where she sang Cough Syrup by Young The Giant. This time, the public vote did save her, so she moved on to week three with Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes. Seven Nation Army was in the top ten on iTunes, so Martinez got her iTunes votes multiplied by ten. Martinez got to move on to the fourth week of the live rounds, where her song was Too Close by Alex Clare. Again, the song moved into the top ten on iTunes, so she had her iTunes votes multiplied by ten. Melanie then moved into week 5, which is the top 6. Starting in week 5, singers of The Voice have two songs to sing. For those songs, Melanie picked Crazy by Gnarls Barkley and Adam picked The Show by Lenka for her. Neither of her songs appeared in the top ten on iTunes, resulting in
Melanie being eliminated.
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DOLLHOUSE EP AND AMERICAN HORROR STORY After being eliminated in the Top 6 on The Voice, Melanie began to work independently on original material. On April 7th, 2014, she announced that she signed on Atlantic Records and that she would go on tour. She released a new hit single titled Dollhouse on February 9th, 2014, along with a music video. The song was said to be about a family that looks perfect from the outside, but has many problems going on in the inside. Soon after, she released the
Dollhouse EP on May 19th, 2014 which included Dollhouse and its music video, Carousel, which later received a music video in October of that year, Dead To Me, and Bittersweet Tragedy. The EP is mostly about a relationship that doesn’t work out, excluding Dollhouse When the American Horror Story: Freak Show trailer was released, Melanie’s song Carousel was featured in it. This helped
Carousel become popular, and Melanie released a music video for it. The music video was released on October 15th, 2014..
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2015-2016 CRY BABY Melanie Martinez released her debut album, Cry Baby, on August 14th, 2015. It was made available to pre-order on July 24th. The lead single, Pity Party, was released on June 1st, 2015. The second single Soap on July 10th, 2015. The third single, Sippy Cup was
released on July 31st. Cry Baby was released on August 14th, 2015, to critical acclaim.The album debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200.She released a special Christmas single, titled Gingerbread Man on December 23rd, 2015. The music video of her song Cry Baby was released on March 14th, 2016. The fourth single, along with the music video, Alphabet Boy was released on June 2nd, 2016. Melanie plans on making music videos for every song on the standard edition of the album.
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2016-2017 2nd Studio Album Melanie is done working on a new album set to be released in early 2018, but that is subject to change. The title of the album will be confirmed by Melanie after the music video for Mad Hatter is released. Two photos on Instagram were posted with lyrics on both captions, revealing two possible songs:
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one on April 13th, and one on May 17th.
2017-Present 2ND ALBUM MOVIE It was confirmed on an exclusive interview that Melanie is currently working on a movie to go along with her second studio album. It is set to be released right before the new album is released, which is around January of 2018, but that is subject to change. Not much is known about the movie as Melanie wants to keep it a surprise.
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DISCOGRAPHY ABOUT HER ALBUM
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CRY BABY “Cry
Baby”
is the debut studio album by
American singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez. It was released on Friday, August 14th, 2015 by Atlantic Records through digital download, CD and vinyl. Cry Baby debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, coming in at #6 with 40,000 total copies sold in its first week. The album also topped the alternative albums chart by coming in at #1. It was also certified Platinum on February 24th, 2017, by RIAA. Her tour, called the Cry Baby Tour, is focused on the album, and began soon after Cry Baby was released. Before this, there were three intimate concerts debuting stripped down versions of some of the songs.
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The Story
This album tells the story of Cry Baby, a fantasy version of Melanie Martinez when she was a child, and a representation of her vulnerable and messed up side. Melanie claims that many of the things that have happened to Cry Baby are similar to the things that have happened in her own life, except where she gets kidnapped and where she kills her kidnapper. Each song on the track list is titled something childhood related, while the actual message being crossed to the listener carries more adult-like themes and problems. The storybook available in the pre-order bundle features rhymes and illustrations based on the album, written by Melanie herself, and the illustrations were drawn by Chloe Tersigni.
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BACKGROUND
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elanie Martinez began recording for her debut album soon after she was eliminated from The Voice. She had an acoustic album
completely done around 2013 and was ready to put it out, although she decided against it. Later, she finished her song
Dollhouse and changed her whole sound after discovering how much she liked this new sound instead. She discarded the tracks from that finished album and began working on some new music. In May of 2014, Melanie put out her Dollhouse EP, and announced that summer that she hoped to have her album out around October. When October came, Melanie released the video for Carousel and postponed her release date for her album, and stated that she hoped to have it out in spring. Around this time. That spring, Kinetics & One Love announced that all of the vocals for Melanie’s album were finished, and Melanie officially announced that her album would be titled “Cry Baby”. Melanie began teasing some titles for tracks.
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he first single was Pity
Party and was confirmed
on May 27th, 2015. The music video was accidentally leaked by Melanie herself on May 29th, but she later
tweeted that she was happy and excited for the fans who had already seen it and promised there was “more to come” during her live stream on June 1st. It was officially released on the day of the livestream. During the livestream, Melanie announced that the release date of Cry
Baby would be in August. She also revealed
that it would be available to pre-order soon. The second single, Soap, was confirmed in late June and it was announced soon before it was to be released on July 10th. It leaked a day earlier. The one-shot music video came out the same day. On July 16th, the album art and release date were leaked on Amazon, although the release date was false. On July 17th, the album art was officially revealed and merch bundles were available to pre-order on Melanie’s website, with the digital pre-order on July 24th. Before the 24th, the track list of the album was leaked, although the websites that leaked it replaced Tag, You’re It with Jump Rope and Play
Date with Half Hearted. The track list was officially revealed on the 24th with the pre-order.
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tarting on July 27th, Melanie released a snippet of each song (apart from the ones on the deluxe edition) on her Instagram page. On
July 28th, Melanie released the snippet for Sippy
Cup and announced that it would be released on
July 31st. On July 30th, SPIN Magazine premiered the video and Sippy
Cup was released the day
after. The album was released on August 14th. The CD was packaged as a storybook, with jewel case CDs available later. Both a picture disk and a standard black vinyl were released in the future. Cassettes were then released, advertised as being in yellow, white, and pink. There is also a less common green cassette. All physical copies of the album are the standard explicit, with the deluxe and clean being digital exclusives.
Cry Baby Coloring Book was released at Barnes & Noble on November 29th, 2016.
Cry Baby’s Extra Clutter EP, an EP on vinyl with the deluxe tracks and Gingerbread Man, was released as an Urban Outfitters exclusive on November 25th, 2016.
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