Melanie Blatt

Melanie Blatt made her name as part of top UK girl group All Saints, but following their split has launched a moderately successful solo career. Her musical style is influenced by Blackstreet, Stevie Wonder, r'n'b and hip-hop. Her outlook is also influenced by being the daughter of hippy parents who - when Melanie was six - camped out at the Glastonbury Festival for three days. Melanie went to Fitzjohn's Primary School where her musical talent was immediately noticed by the head teacher, David Joyne, who encouraged her parents to send her to a stage school. In 1986 Melanie went to the Sylvia Young Theatre School where she met Nicole Appleton and the two ladies became best friends. During this period Melanie also played Ebony in Les Misérables for six months. In 1986 Melanie was diagnosed having Scoliosis. Since her parents weren't satisfied with the treatment methods in the United Kingdom, they decided to move back to France where a specialist decided that the best way to treat it was to put three metal rods in her back. In 1993 Melanie started out singing in the band Drive and they recorded "Curfew" together. She perfomed this song on the TV programme Access All Areas. She also did backing vocals with Dreadzone doing backing vocals with Denise van Outen. Later that year Melanie met Shaznay Lewis at the Metamorphisis recording studio in All Saints Road, London and they proceeded to record together. Together with Simone Rainford they formed the band All Saints 1.9.7.5 which was later renamed to All Saints when Simone left and Nicole and Natalie Appleton joined Melanie and Shaznay. Her solo releases have been of variable success; her most successful release being "TwentyFourSeven", a collaboration with The Artful Dodger, peaking at #6 in September 2001. Her new album is being written and recorded with Matt Hale from Aqualung and will feature "See Me", which was included on the Robots soundtrack (2005) and released on a single with matching video featuring footage from the movie and Melanie with her face covered in diamonds. On January 24th [2006] it was announced that All Saints have reformed with a new record contract and will be releasing a new album at the end of 2006. November 2008 her unreleased album leaked on the internet on All Saints Forum...(http://allsaints.freeforums.org/mel-blatt-s-rare-songs-t451.html#3781)