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Devastation
Port-au-Prince has 1,000,000 homeless
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Melissa's Bio
Goal: To serve God and others with the gifts and talents entrusted into my care. To minister to those who are less fortunate, give them a glimmer of hope and fulfill Christ's work as outlined in Luke 4:18-19.
Melissa was born in West Palm Beach, in sunny South Florida. She was always surrounded by music as she grew up listening to her father playing classical guitar and directing choir at her church where she attended many concerts. She also enjoyed many other musical events in that community. Several of her relatives, including her aunt, are actively involved in music and she counts several cousins who are recording artists in their own rights.
When crying hard as a baby, the only thing that could get through to her was a certain record. She would immediately stop to listen. It is fair to say that she's got music in her.
Both her father and mother encouraged her to exteriorize the music that was inside her by steering her into singing and the piano. While she was taking in the contemporary Christian music records brought to her she stuck to the piano. It would be later on in her mid teen years, in Texas, that she began showing serious interest in singing. However once she started, she never looked back.
She was the soloist in children and adult choirs, school chorales and advanced choirs; she participated in competitions and sang the national anthem in several sporting events and even at her high school graduation. She took her music with her to Mexico where she sang on a missions trip. She sang at several weddings and she has been performing the songs that her father has been writing at concerts and other church events. She now leads worship at her church in Charlotte, NC, where she blesses the heart of the countless worshipers who are touched by her gift and genuine love for God and people. Her music was instrumental in raising funds to benefit the 2008 hurricanes victims at a benefit concert where several thousand dollars were raised. She has been featured at several events and concerts in Florida, Kansas City, New York, New Jersey and in Raleigh at a Tony Evans Town hall event. At the Gospel Music Association Immerse conference Melissa performed “Bless the Memories,” at cut on her album written by her father. That song received the American Bible Society award for Scripture song in the semi-professional category. Judges at the GMA were impressed with her talent.
One thing that will strike you as you come in contact with Melissa is the joy and sincerity that she exudes. You have the correct impression that you are in the presence of the "real thing" and this is what she is able to convey eloquently through her music. She has a deceptively powerful voice for her frame and that voice that will reverberate in deep areas of the soul.
In December 2009, along with her father Melissa started Operation Touch , a web site where people could download her e-album for free along with artwork. On that album she sings in three languages and the title cut of the album "Touch Someone" is a plea for people to reach out to others and do a gesture to relieve their sufferings as a testimony that their call is to reach out to others and fulfill the demands of God to do good to all mankind.
Melissa has been blessed with a talent that she is sharing with the world today. A ministry has been entrusted into her care and if you listen to her you will be convinced that this noble cause is hers and you will join her in helping carry the message to the ends of the earth.
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