RISING ICONS: MELANIE FIONA

This was a fun and aggravating episode to work on.  We moved the shoot dates about 4-5 times.  Management, the channel, and I couldn’t agree on what we wanted to shoot.  Each artist’s television shoots are broken down in two parts.  One day of shooting had to be a ‘day in the life’ type of shooting where people could get a better sense of Melanie’s personality and her busy schedule.  The other day of shooting consists of the performance in front of a live audience.

The aggravating part was that we couldn’t all come to an agreement over what the ‘day in the life’ segment was going to be.  The channel and I wanted to shoot in her hometown in Toronto but mgmt wanted it either LA or NY.  After A LOT of back and forth, we ended up shooting in NY.  The two days of shooting turned out to be great and I give kudos to mgmt to sticking their ground.  

If you haven’t already heard of Melanie you depriving yourself of experiencing a true rising star.  She is one of the best artists I’ve had the pleasure of working with.  Incredible personality, presence, voice, looks, the complete package.  When she performed the performance portion of the show, I got chills like a proud papa.  All that work culminated into a great mini concert & an episode that aired on BET.  Enjoy!

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