Melissa has always had a deep love for music. As a child in the suburbs of Detroit, she would spend hours in the park under the big maple trees with headphones on, singing along and lost in the music of many musical artists including Radiohead, 10,000 Maniacs, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Indigo Girls, The Cranberries, Jimi Hendrix, Fiona Apple, Stevie Wonder, Jeff Buckley, Wynonna Judd, Tori Amos, The Police, Whitney Houston...and whatever else she could get her little hands on! When she was 18 years old a friend gifted her an acoustic guitar and she started writing and performing songs. She went to college in Ypsilant, MI, but soon dropped out to follow her passion for both music and questioning the establishment. There, she formed a band with a few musicians at the local coffee shop "The Mudd House" and started performing regularly.

IN 2002, Melissa moved her band to Seattle. Her style was greatly influenced by the darker, edgy grit of the city and she started playing electric guitar. With her band "Seeing Blind" she recorded 4 studio albums with producers such as Jack Endino (nirvana, screaming trees) and Jonathon Plum (Blind Melon, Brandi Carlile), played at festivals such as Seattle Pridefest and SXSW, and shared the stage with artists such as Brandi Carlile and Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls.

In 2014, Melissa had the opportunity to participate in full time meditation practices, so she took a hiatus for 5 years in California. When she was finished in 2019 she moved to the Bay Area and was just getting ready to start performing again...when COVID hit! By this time though, Melissa had honed just the sort of skills needed for a lock-down from all her years meditating! She took that time to cook up some fresh new songs.

Today, she is in pre-production for the release of her first album in over 7 years.