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American singer and songwriter Melanie Martinez was born on April 28th, 1995, in Astoria, Queens. Now, in 2016, at age 21, she has over 20 songs.
parents of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent. Her family moved to Baldwin, New York on Long Island when Martinez was 4.She listened to Brandy, Britney Spears, Shakira, The Beatles, Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls and Christina Aguilera growing up,[11][12][13] and claims to have wanted to be a singer from a young age.
Martinez attended Plaza Elementary School, crediting her teacher Mr. Nadien with teaching her how to sing, and in kindergarten, Martinez began writing poetry. Martinez has claimed to have not had many friends growing up and to have been a homebody, as she was "very emotional", and found it difficult to explain her feelings, crying when overwhelmed. She used photography and painting as a means of self-expression. Due to her emotionality as a child, she claims to have been referred to as a "cry baby" by others, which sparked the creation of the titular character of her debut album, Cry Baby.
She attended Baldwin High School. At the age of 14, Martinez taught herself how to play guitar by studying chord diagrams of songs that she enjoyed, which she found online, and wrote her first song by adding her poetry to one of the chord diagrams, but claims that playing guitar "eventually got stale". During her sophomore year, she won the talent show at Baldwin High School and at the age of 16, after watching 101 Dalmatians, dyed half of her hair blonde, in the same vein as Cruella De Vil. She received criticism from her classmates after appearing on The Voice.
In the year 2012, she auditioned for the American television show known as the Voice. She became a part of Team Adam. She sang the songs 'Crazy', 'Too Close', 'Toxic', 'Cough Syrup', 'Seven Nation Army,' 'Hit the Road Jack', 'The Show', 'Lights', & 'Bullet Proof.'
She was eliminated during the fifth week, where she began her independent work.
In 2013, she released singles 'Doll House' & 'Cry Baby.'
She continued her work as a singer through the year 2014 where in February, she made a performance at Gramercy Theatre in New York.
On August 14th, 2015, she released her infantile-themed album 'Cry Baby,' which has songs
Cry Baby, Dollhouse, Sippy Cup, Carousel, Mad Hatter, Alphabet Boy, Pity Party, Teddy Bear, Training Wheels, Soap, Milk and Cookies, Tag You're It, Cake, & Mrs. Potato Head.
The album was named number 22 of the top 25 albums of 2015, sky-rocketing her career.
Her #1 hit song: Dollhouse, with over 80 million views, was featured along with Carousel in American Horror Series: Freak Show.
In November 2016 she released the super popular music video for 'Pacify Her', which hit over a million views in the first three and a half hours of being posted.
When Melanie Martinez releases another album I will add to this biography, but until then that's it! Hope you like it!!!
