Melina Coolen
Portrait by Kate Mosher
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Listen to new single, Behind Every Cloud, today! Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, Tidal, Deezer Learn more about Behind Every Cloud "If music is the food of love, Melina Coolen makes musical comfort food, with uplifting and hopeful lyrics wrapped in a blanket of 1960s orchestral pop goodness and 1970s-style songcraft." -Stephen Cooke, The Chronicle Herald Melina Coolen proves that you don’t need to speak any language to understand music because the tone and tempo of the music itself can often times be all that you need.” -Joshua Macala, Rasied By Cassettes "...Coolen delights the senses here with her theatrical prowess, and her knack for combining bold and emotive piano keys against a slight jazz, slight doo wop ” -Great Dark Wonder |
Melina Coolen is a Canadian songwriter, producer and audio engineer and producer. Her retropop influence is undeniable in her carefully self-produced sound and sophisticated songwriting style. After years of formal classical training and receiving the RCM Silver Medal in piano, she pursued her love for pop and jazz songwriting in college and university. Paying homage to the Brill Building greats, Melina released her debut EP, All of My Life (2017) in conjunction with her masters thesis on analog and digital recording hybrids, (which involved using a Studer B67 Mk II reel-to-reel tape machine). Her second album Windows (2022) was also inspired by retropop as well as folk, jazz, and prog. Shortly after, in 2023, Melina released Nothing At All (feat. Linda Vilela) which was her first bubblegum pop tune to feature international talent. Her latest single, Behind Every Cloud is the first in her instrumental series. It draws inspiration from chamber pop and orchestral hip hop.
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Learn more about Melina Coolen's songs by visiting the Music tab.
Learn more about Melina Coolen's scoring, stock music and audio production work by visiting the Audio Production tab.