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Melissa Salcedo

In my dreams the midnight dragon flies...

About Me

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Vocal Performance History & Overview of Background
1981 - February 9, My birthdate.
1985 - First began to write songs, Mom discovered my voice.
1988 - Mom tried getting me to sing for family. No luck. She stuck a tape recorder in the bathroom while I showered and recorded the evidence on tape.
1991 - Mom signed me up for the church choir at Mother of Christ Catholic Church.
1992 - I was lead singer in the children's church choir.
1994 - The beginning of my solo artist career.
1994 - First time performing for a Latin Community Municipality event in Miami: Nuevitas, Cuba. Others that followed: Puerto Rico, Peru, and Mexico
1994 - First solo performance done at Church for a Church sale event. Sang Whitney Houston's version of "I wll Always Love You".
1994 - First time performing for the City of Miami at Bayfront Park
1994 - First time performing for the City of Miami at Orange Bowl
1996 - Won the audition to perform the National Anthem for the Miami Heat Basketball game. First time performing for the Miami Heat Basketball games singing the National Anthem. Did so for 5 separate games.
1996 - First time performing for the Latin Builder's Association - sang the National Anthem and the cuban anthem. And did so for all of their events for the next 5 years.
1996 - Became a Cavalier Singer for Coral Gables Sr. High
1997 - Met Keyboard player and producer Gary Corbet (Who once was the touring keyboard player for Kiss) and world reknown engineer Bob Vila. Collaborated with them for the next 2 years on songwriting and gained a new level of artist development with their help.
1998 - Performed as a Cavalier Singer at many events and competitions, mostly doing solo performances on the side as well.
2000 - Began Vocal Performance education at FIU.
2001 - Met up with Joe Novo - Recording Producer and part owner of Big Dogg Studios. Worked on music and lyrics for 13 different songs, worked on training other artists, worked on presentation of different songs to different top artists such as Ricki Martin, Kylie Minogue, and Britney Spears.
2002 - Joined Opera Workshop at FIU.
2006 - Started to look for a band and found one within two weeks of searching. That was when I joined Hazel Witch in November 2006.
2007 - Recorded Demo for Hazel Witch at Talent Farm Studio
2007 - Performed Hazel Witch music at local Miami/Hialeah/Pembroke Pines/Hollywood rock venues.
2007 - Wrote well over 12 songs for Hazel Witch with Nelson Santamaria.
2008
- Start of new business venture giving Vocal Coaching Classes
2008 - Development of home studio
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/17/2006
Band Members: I am the vocalist for a local Miami Rock Band called "Tribal Witch". Mouse over the band name below to go to my band’s myspace page.
Tribal Witch

Influences: I'm influenced by many things, mostly related to art: The air, the trees, colors, magic, light, dark, fire, water, earth, fantasy, sci-fi, my imagination, music, emotions, world events, everyday life, family, friends, love, bellydancing, dancing in general, paintings, drawings, sketches, photographs, books, cooking, animals, especially felines and equines, dragons, fairies, the music community and industry, new age, beliefs, god, the secret, and the attractive power of the universe.
I love animals and nature and I am a strong believer in taking care of the animals in this planet and taking care of the planet itself. Please view the videos and myspace pages below to learn about ways you can help and educate yourself about what is going on today in your world. Don't stay ignorant. Learn and improve so that those around you can follow your example.
What's going on in Florida:
Florida Panthers 2007= 15 killed
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Click on Big Cat Rescue to sign the petition to request that China sustain their present ban on tiger farms and browse this great site.
Visit: Planet In Peril CNN coverage and find out what's going on in the world today - wake up it IS happening. You can make a difference if you join with me and act to pass the information along. The more together we are in our efforts to preserve life and our planet, the closer we will come to improving life as we know it here on this earth.
-------I am a hobby artist. I draw generally in pencil/colored-pencil but I have dabbled in other media such as acrylic, charcoal, oil pastel, and water color. I normally stick to drawing people, characters from my books, people I know, models in magazines, and maybe a commission or two. If you like my art below and want me to do something for you, I'd be more than happy to discuss this with you. Send me a message!
My characters "Seric Arcaine and Garnette Demetri" from a 4-book fantasy series I hope to publish one day.

"Garnette Demetri"

Self portrait for my band "Hazel Witch"
Sounds Like: I've been compared to many artists to which I am very graciously pleased to be compared to although I know I have my own sound. The artist I am compared to most is Amy Lee of Evanescence. In my High School days while performing R&B and pop ballads I was often nick-named Mariah, a.k.a. Maria Carey. I have a wide range of experience and well-developed vocal skills and technique through years of performing and two years of classical training at Florida International University under the exceptional tutelage of my voice teacher there, Rodney Miller. I have performed songs from a variety of musical genres such as old Nat King Cole jazz, broadway musical tunes, R&B, pop ballads, salsa, rock & Opera. I've worked with talented musicians, producers, song-writers and engineers over the years, developing my sound still to date. My music, my lyrics, my voice and its strengths and weaknesses are always progressing, always flowing, as this is a way of life for me. I will not sound like I did yesterday, and tomorrow I will sound better than today.
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My Blog

Covers I already know for Weddings & Events...

Here is the very long list of songs I have learned over the years and can perform for events and weddings or miscellaneous gigs.  If you don't see a song on here, let me know and I'll learn it if...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Tue, 06 May 2008 10:52:00 PST

Class Schedules Now Online

Hello my lovely students! I wanted to inform you that should you need to know my schedule, have a quick look at when I have you scheduled or if you are new and want to see my schedule online, I now ha...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:53:00 PST

Autobiography

I have probably been singing since I first discovered my voice as a baby. But one of MY earliest memories of singing is of a time when I was around the age of four. Every Sunday, I would go with my gr...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:43:00 PST

Lyrics to The Shadow of The Wind

Oh it's night againAnd the dark just killed the sunIf the light must endYou've got time to run awayThere's a door to dreamsAnd it always lets you inBut with a silent screamAll the nightmares must begi...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:54:00 PST

Latest News

Wow, haven't posted a blog in a while so here is an update. Hazel Witch News: I hope you all have liked Retribution, we've had several good comments about it and received all good feedback about that ...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:01:00 PST

Hazel Witch has a New Song up

Please go check out the alternate version of "Retribution" from my band Hazel Witch on the myspace page: www.myspace.com/hazelwitchbandIt is acoustic and very creepy!  There's a note there that N...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:39:00 PST

Open Mic @ Starbucks in North Miami

Hello my friends. I wanted to tell you about Open Mic Tuesday nights at Starbucks in North Miami.  The time is from 7-10 pm.  Hosted by Singer/Songwriter Adrian Guerra.  The address is ...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:23:00 PST

April 28, 2007 - Performance at Studio 3in1

Hazel Witch's next scheduled performance will be at Studio 3in1, April 28, 2007.  The address is 2950 West 84 Street, #10, Hialeah, FL  Please see the studio's myspace page at http://www.mys...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:49:00 PST

HAZEL WITCH - PREMIER SHOW!!! Feb. 24

I'm extremely excited.  My band will be doing its first show February 24, 2007.  We've rehearsed a couple of times and it is sounding incredible already.  I can't wait for Feb. 24. ...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:36:00 PST

I met all my band mates yesterday!

I finally got to meet the other two band members, Rodrigo (Drums), and his brother Carlos who we just got to be our new bass guitar player.  I was in the studio with all of the band members doing...
Posted by Melissa Salcedo on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:16:00 PST