According to Fiona, record labels "loved" the way she looked and sung, but "knew that the minute I worked with them or would have signed with them, they would have tried to change me into someone else completely different. In 2005, Fiona traveled to Los Angeles, California, in search of a recording contract. Early in her career, she would perform at nightclubs in Toronto. In 2002, Fiona was briefly involved with girl group X-Quisite. The Break Down The Walls Songfacts reports Fiona told Billboard magazine that her goal with The MF Life was to give an "honest" depiction of her life and how things have changed from her debut set, The Bridge. Her second album, The MF Life, was released through the SRC Records and Universal Republic on Maafter several delays. The song earned Fiona a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
The second single, "It Kills Me", became her breakout song on the Billboard Hot 100 where it cracked the Top 50, along with hitting #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The debut single "Give It to Me Right" was released to radio stations on February 28, 2009, and peaked at #20 on Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 and #41 on the UK Singles Chart.
She worked on the album with Future Cut, Vada Nobles, Stereotypes, J. Her debut album The Bridge was released in the summer of 2009.
Her father was a guitarist in a band and would allow her to sit on the stage when she was younger as he practiced, and remembers her mother playing music at home everything from The Ronettes to Whitney Houston.įiona was featured on Reggae Gold 2008 with the Supa Dups-produced "Somebody Come Get Me". Living in a music filled household, Fiona says she always knew music was her passion. She was born to Guyanese immigrant parents (mixed with black, Indian, and Portuguese ethnicities) and grew up in the inner city of Toronto.
Melanie Fiona Hallim (born July 4, 1983) is a Grammy winning Canadian R&B singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario.
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