Who Is…Melanie Fiona
By Christina Lee, eMusic Contributor
Melanie Fiona often plays the standby to someone who's emotionally abandoned her — a lover who's thrust herself completely into unrequited love. "I'd make the perfect wife," she sings in "4 a.m.," a tortured torch ballad about waiting for her man to come home, featuring little more than synths dripping faintly, like a leaking faucet. But, as a soul singer who's flirted with reggae backbeats, then won two Grammys for a duet with Cee-Lo Green ("Fool… more »