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Melanie Martinez is an up and coming Star. She's a singer, composer photographer and video director. In this article you will find out more about Melanie Martinez including her life as a child, as was her experience in "The Voice" and finally what she has achieved after the show.

Melanie Martinez is from Astoria, she was born on April 28 in 1995. Her parents are from Puerto Rico and Dominican republic. Her family moved to Baldwin, New York on long island when Martinez was 4 years old. Martinez attended Plaza Elementary School, Mr. Nadine, was teaching her how to sing. In kindergarten, Martinez began writing poetry. Martinez has claimed to have not had many friends growing up and to have been a homebody. She painted as a mean of self-expression Due to her emotionality as a child she claims to have been referred to as a “cry baby” by others. She attended Ballwin High School at the age 14. Martinez learned how to play guitar by studding chord diagrams of songs that she enjoyed, which she found online, she wrote her first song by adding her poetry to one of the chord diagrams.