Melanie Fiona

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I'm just like everybody else.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

I love Canada, always.

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.