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Melanie Amaro
Melanie Amaro, the 19-year-old finalst of THE X FACTOR from the Virgin Islands and Florida, can’t remember the first time she sang, but her mother will never forget. When Melanie Amaro was just six-months-old, her mother recalls putting her to bed in her crib only to come in shortly after to see her baby standing up in her crib singing away.
Needless to say, music runs deep in Melanie from the time she was born to today and it was something to help her escape the pain of being separated from her family at a young age. She was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but her Caribbean-bred parents sent her to her grandparents in Tortola, Virgin Islands and would only see her parents on summer vacations and Christmas breaks.
It was her mother who encouraged her to try out for THE X FACTOR, but that was a rocky road at first too. She explains, “I wanted to get a Fast Pass at the local FOX news in Florida and they told me, ‘No, we didn’t enjoy you very much.’ So I waited in line with all the thousands of people,” she says, and as they say – the rest is history!
