Melissa Reese Biography, Age, Height, Net Worth, Family And News

Melissa Reese Biography

Melissa Reese is an American musician and model best known for her collaborations with Bryan “Brain” Mantia and her current position in hard rock

band Guns N’ Roses.

Melissa Reese Age

Melissa Reese is an American musician and model was born on  1 March 1985.

Melissa Reese Height

Information concerning her height is still under research and will soon be updated immediately we come across details about her height.

Melissa Reese Family

She was born in Seattle, Washington. She is the youngest of three girls born into a household of Chinese, English, Spanish, Japanese, Filipino, Irish, Scottish and Danish descent. she began singing and playing piano at age 4. She started writing music on the piano at age 12. At 13 years old, she was discovered by musician Tom Whitlock, who helped her get into the music industry. When she was 17, she learned Pro Tools, Reason, and Logic Pro and began performing and producing her own music. She attended Roosevelt High School, where she sang in the vocal jazz ensemble. She won an outstanding soloist award at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in high school. After graduating school, Reese began experimenting with recording, creating a module that featured a Boss BR-8 and a Roland Groovebox. In her early 20s, she moved to Los Angeles to study music full-time.

Melissa Reese Education

Talking about her educational background, according to our research she attended  Roosevelt High School, where she sang in the vocal jazz ensemble. She won an outstanding soloist award at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in high school.

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Melissa Reese Career

Her first EP, Lissa, was released in 2007 under the name Lissa and featured a collaboration with Bryan Mantia and Pete Scaturro. Three of the songs of the EP were featured in various TV shows, including Gossip Girl and Keeping up with the Kardashians. She has worked with funk artist Bootsy Collins, rapper Chuck D, singer Vanessa Carlton, soul artist Goapele and singer Taylor Swift. In addition to composing, Reese has produced work for artists such as Drumma Boy. She also did work on the soundtrack for the movie The Assignment. In October 2016, Reese sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a Seattle Seahawks game.

Brain and Melissa

She has worked on several projects with Mantia, a composing team dubbed “Brain and Melissa”. In 2010, along with Buckethead, they released the multi-CD sets Kind Regards and Best Regards. Brain and Melissa composed part of the soundtrack to the video game Infamous 2, for which they were nominated for “Outstanding Achievement in Original Composition” by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awards. Other video games the duo worked on include PlayStation Home, ModNation Racers, Twisted Metal, Fantasia: Music Evolved and Infamous: Second Son. They also scored the films Detention and Power/Rangers. They have worked with music video director Joseph Kahn on several television commercials for NASCAR, SEAT, and Qoros. In addition, they scored a commercial for Johnnie Walker Blue which featured a computer-generated Bruce Lee.

They also worked on several remixes of songs from Chinese Democracy for a planned remix album. In addition, the two created a stock music album called Eclectic Cinema alongside former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Paul Tobias, and Guns N’ Roses and Buckethead collaborator Pete Scaturro. They are currently working on the soundtrack for the upcoming movie Death Race 4: Anarchy and the upcoming Joseph Kahn film “Bodied”.The duo performed at a Houston Rockets halftime show on November 10, 2017, performing remixes of “Sorry” and “If the World” from Chinese Democracy, and a cover of KISS’s “Do You Love Me?” from Destroyer. They played another NBA halftime show, this time for the Los Angeles Clippers, on November 27, 2017.

Melissa Reese Net Worth

Information concerning her net worth is still under research and will soon be updated immediately we come across details about her net worth.

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The GNP Team
11/20/2018
 Provided by GNP Views and Events, Inc. Fil-Am Melissa Reese is a first female member of celebrated band Guns N’ Roses. Image credit to Guns B’ Roses Facebook Page. The legendary rock band Guns N’ Roses “Not In This Lifetime Tour” 2018, one of the highest grossing tours of all time with sold-out dates worldwide, made a stop in Manila to the rousing welcome and support for the band and its first female member, Fil-Am Melissa Reese. The Philippine Arena concert stage in Bulacan rocked with the musical skills that has made Guns N’ Roses hugely popular, all the more made more appealing to Filipino audiences because of keyboardist Reese who was in the country of her maternal roots for the first time.

 

Reese was welcomed into the iconic band as its first female member in 2016 to play keyboards, samplers and sing background vocals. On Instagram, Reese revealed how her mother was born in the Philippines and met her father who was a soldier who chose to be stationed at Clark Air Base in Pampanga during the Vietnam War saying, “It was the best decision he ever made!”Thanking her Guns N’ Roses family for opting to hold a concert in the Philippines and allowing Reese to meet her extended Filipino family the classically-trained musician went on IG to say:“Being proud to be part #filipina myself, coming here – seeing and experiencing the beauty, happiness and generosity of this country and culture has been deeply moving and given me so much insight as to why my #mama (who was born here) is *such* a #sunshine and has the biggest heart of anyone I know,” went Reese’s Instagram post.
In another social media post, Reese talked about her pride in being Filipino writing, “I am so proud to know that this is part of my heritage and that I learned so much about this part of myself and my family in such a short amount of time. Your love and support was overwhelming and meant the world to me. Maraming Salamat for the privilege. Love, Melissa.”Reese was classically trained in her youth and took up songwriting, eventually going more pop, R & B, and hip hop before joining the hard rock band. Reese revealed in Manila media interviews that she and her sister Stephanie grew up with her Filipino maternal grandparents who joined them in America and taught them the Filipino culture. After Manila, Melissa Reese and the Guns N’ Roses next performed in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei.

 

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