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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Martinez#:~:text=Born%20in%20Astoria%2C%20Queens%2C%20and,2014)%2C%20through%20Atlantic%20Records.

https://melanie-martinez.fandom.com/wiki/Melanie_Martinez

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6791934/bio

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Marley Wright

Miss. Rittenberg

Honors English 8

30 April 2021

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Melanie Martinez is a girl many know and love, but what they do not know is that it took many years, challenges, and times of hard work to get to where she is today.

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Melanie was born in the ¨Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, and raised in Baldwin, Long Island, New York.¨ . When she was only 3 years old she found her passion in singing. ¨She taught herself how to play guitar at age 4 because her parents could not afford lessons.¨. At 9 years old she started writing songs. She spent most of her time at her grandmas house when she was younger as sung about in her song piggyback and recess. Melanie was also bullied for one of her famous traits, her gapped teeth as she talked about in a interview.

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As a sophomore in high school, ¨she won the Baldwin Senior High School, Talent Show.¨ .She began writing songs and releasing them on YouTube, ¨the oldest ones being hey Alice¨. She also did many covers of songs before she got into the voice. She signed up to be on the voice and was accepted. When she got into the voice ¨she choose Adam Levine to be her mentor.¨.

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When she was on the voice she got ¨Blake Sheldon, Adam Levine, and ceelo green¨  to turn their chairs around. A quote that Melanie says about how Christina Agulara not turning around is ¨Never meet your idols¨. While she was on the show she sung ¨Toxic, Lights, Bulletproof, Hit the Road Jack,Seven, Cough Syrup, Seven Nation Army, Too Close. Crazy, and The Show.¨ She made it very far in the show but her last preformance on the show was crazy and the show due to them ot being popular on ITunes. In 2014 she got a deal with Atlanta records.

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She had signed a deal with Atlanta records and published her first album ¨Crybaby¨. Crybaby talks about melanie´s life and it talks about things many people relate to. Her song Dollhouse on the album was very popular along with Carousel.Her Song Carousel was later on American horror stories Freak Show. A bit later her ex best friend Timothy Heller who was very Jealous of Melanie at the time put a false claim in which she had said Melanie had been intamite with her whe she didn´t want to be. This claim was ruled as a lie.

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She took many years of the media so she could direct her movie K-12 which was about her school life and how growing up is. K-12 was Technically a music video movie and is free to watch on her youtube. In 2020 she released another album called after school. She told her fans about how she is working on music and working on the next film. She announced it should be done by 2022 .