Melissa is an accomplished performer and songwriter, with an immediately recognizable and distinctive vocal style that carries enormous range and power, garnering frequent comparisons to Dolly Parton, Patty Griffin, and Tammy Wynette. To date, Melissa has achieved notable success in the industry. From the time that she was old enough to talk, Melissa Endean was onstage, making her first public appearance as a country vocalist at just eight years of age. Melissa released her first EP at just 18 years old, as part of the family band, The Endean Sisters, to immediate success, with Endean's first underground single release, "Kiss My Canadian Ass", quickly becoming a local hit.
Melissa had originally planned to take these tracks back up to Canada and master and release them - but she ended up putting the tracks on a back burner as she had other projects she was working on at the time. She explains: "I also had a lot of fear about really establishing myself as a country music artist because at that time I was nervous that as an openly gay artist, I would be rejected in the country music industry. I put the project on hold, and then I ended up getting married, having babies, and then having a divorce lol. So by the time I was in a headspace to actually finish them, and also by the time I actually felt confident enough to release them as a gay artist, nearly ten years had past. I feel like now the world and the industry has progressed enough that there won't be as much pushback for a gay artist, and so I decided what the hell - may as well finish them and get them out there."
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