Celebrity Facts [√]

Melanie Martinez

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1) Melanie Martinez auditioned for the American television vocal talent show The Voice and became a member of Team Adam. Within the fifth week, she was eliminated which subsequently led to her beginning independent work on original material.

2) She had a number of bisque dolls while growing up, and as an adult used them to make various necklaces.

3) She listened to Brandy, Britney Spears, Shakira ,The Beatles ,
Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls and Christina Aguilera growing up.

4) She claims to have wanted to be a singer from a young age.

5) In kindergarden, she started writing poetry.

6) Martinez has claimed to have not had many friends growing up, nor did she go outside of her home much, as she was "very emotional", and found it difficult to explain her feelings, and would cry when overwhelmed.She used photography and painting as a means of self-expression.

7) Due to her emotionality as a child, she claims to have been referred to as a "cry baby" by others, which sparked the creation of the titular character of her debut album, Cry Baby.

8) At the age of 14, Martinez taught herself how to play guitar by studying chord diagrams of songs that she enjoyed, which she found online, and wrote her first song by adding her poetry to one of the chord diagrams, but claims that playing guitar "eventually got stale".

9) At the age of 16, after watching 101 Dalmations, she dyed half of her hair blonde, in the same vein as Cruella De Vil.

10) Later in 2012, Martinez auditioned for the third season of The Voice. Although she claims not have watched the show herself before the audition, she says her parents did. The initial, untelevised audition was an open call, held at Javits Centre. She recalls that while her and her mother were driving to the audition, her mother's car broke down before they reached the Midtown Tunnel, and the two were forced to "hitchhike" a taxi cab in order to get there.

BONUS: She claims that she did not inform anyone outside of her immediate family about the audition.

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