Melissa Reese is a musical powerhouse. She began singing and playing piano classically at the age of four. By 14, she was writing her own songs, then at 17 taught herself Pro Tools, Reason and Logic to write, arrange, produce, perform, engineer, and mix her own recordings.

Melissa is the youngest of three girls born into a racially-mixed household of Chinese, English, Spanish, Japanese, Filipino, Irish, Scottish and Danish in Seattle, Washington.

“By the time I could talk and gather what was going on in the world, my second oldest sister was already doing choir and lots of other performing,” says Melissa. “Initially, I took up singing to mimic her, but quickly began loving it as my own thing. I ended up going on a similar path as she; joined girls’ choir and began piano lessons, but as I got older, I went down a different road. My sister continued on a classical course and now sings opera, whereas I took up songwriting and directionally went more pop, R & B, and hip hop.”

In high school, Melissa deviated from the classical music training of her formative years; She joined the Roosevelt High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble and competed at both the Reno, and Lionel Hampton Jazz Festivals. In both competitions the group took 1st place, while Melissa herself won an outstanding soloist award at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Immediately after high school, furthering her musical prowess, Melissa began experimenting with recording. Her first recording module featured a vintage Boss BR-8 and a Roland Groovebox that were gifted to her. Soon after, she invested in Pro Tools, Logic and Reason while teaching herself the nuts and bolts of a plethora of other production software. In two years time, she wrote hundreds of songs, producing, arranging, programming and performing every note herself, in her own home studio.

Things have since progressed wildly in the young artist's career. Television has been captivated by the cinematic quality of Melissa's music. “Ooh La La”, “Pretty Please” and “Old Skool” three of the tracks from LISSA (her first media EP done collaboratively with industry veterans Bryan "Brain" Mantia and Pete Scaturro), earned a place in several network cable series' – Showtime’s “Inside the NFL”, ABC’s “Mistresses” and “Cashmere Mafia”, E!’s “Keeping Up With The Kardashians”, The CW’s “Gossip Girl” and "Privileged", and FX’s “Dirt” to name a few. Melissa’s song “Girlfriend” was also used as the theme song for the Just Fab Shoe commercial campaign, which can be seen on TV as well as online. Since recording the Lissa EP, Melissa has gone on to several other projects, further exploring her varied interests, and testing her skills as an artist/songwriter/producer and now, composer. She has recorded tracks and several commercials with legendary funk artist Bootsy Collins, performed backing vocals for rapper Chuck D and pop singer Vanessa Carlton, co-wrote and produced music for artists like Taylor Swift, neo-soul artist Goapele, and Universal artist Allan Kuo from China. In addition to many other projects of this nature, Melissa has also written/composed music and performed vocals for gaming giants Sony Playstation, EA Games, Xbox.

Melissa formally partnered with drummer “Brain” to form “Brain and Melissa”, a composing team. Since that time, the duo has put out 2 major game themes for Sony Playstation, several pieces of original music for Playstation HOME, Mod Nation, Twisted Metal X, Bloodborne, The Last of Us, and were also excited to score their first full length major Playstation series release Infamous 2 - which was nominated for “Outstanding Achievement in Original Composition” by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS awards). The pair were also thrilled to be asked back to score Infamous’ 3rd installment entitled: Second Son. In addition, the duo have had several tracks featured on shows like Inside the NFL (Showtime), Face Off (SciFi Network), several MLB games (Fox), the MLB All-Star Game (Fox) and Nascar (Fox Sports). They have also had the pleasure of scoring the E3 Xbox media briefing convention for Microsoft for the fourth year in a row. Brain and Melissa’s composing has been highlighted by signing with creative agency giant ICM and the release of their highly anticipated feature-length score for the film “Detention” done by acclaimed music video director Joseph Kahn. The film debuted at the SXSW film festival to rave reviews, and had its major nation-wide theater release through Sony Pictures/Samuel Goldwyn. Since the completion of “Detention” they have gone on to work with Kahn as his “go-to” composers on several projects including major ad campaigns for Nascar (including 3 Super Bowl adverts), Trust Bank (starring Bruce Willis), Seat (VW/Audi subsidiary), and Johnnie Walker Blue (showcasing the first posthumous appearance by Bruce Lee in the media (via CGI) since his death. In other news, the pair was excited to finish their first project with Disney - a game with their Interactive division, Fantasia: Music Evolved as well as scoring the new ad campaign for the car company Qoros (Range Rover subsidiary) and the new year campaign for Budweiser. The pair was also elated to have scored the press juggernaut short film Power/Rangers for Joseph Kahn and producer Adi Shankar which went viral - amassing more than 18 million hits between Vimeo and Youtube (and counting). B and M were also hugely excited to work on the score/remix for Taylor Swift's Bad Blood music video which premiered on the Billboard Music Awards and has now reached nearly 400 million hits. Bad Blood also took home the Grammy for Best Music Video. In 2019, the pair were elated to have the first full length film they scored - BODIED (directed by Joseph Kahn and produced by Eminem) premier at both the Toronto Film Festival as well as Sundance film festival to stellar reviews. Since its theatrical debut, Bodied is now streaming on all video platforms. 2022 has been an active year for the duo as well - having contributed their musical compositions and work on projects like the “Redraw Your World” campaign featuring Nandi Bushell for Cartoon Network (directed by Joseph Kahn), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision), The Last of Us TV series (HBO/Naughty Dog to be released in 2023) and were composers (and producers of the main title theme) on the 10 episode docu-series Growing Up (executive produced by Brie Larson, streaming on Disney+). 2023 looks to be an exciting year on the composing front for these two as well including more TBA film projects with director Kahn, and tv series’ on deck.

On the artist’s side, Melissa has co-produced / written songs with Mannie Fresh and Grammy award winning producer Drumma Boy both for her new upcoming album, and for other notable artists. She can also be seen singing the national anthem at several major sporting events for teams like her hometown's Seattle Seahawks (at Century Link Field), the LA Clippers (at Staples Center), Cleveland Indians (at Progressive Field), the Sacramento Kings (at Sleeptrain Arena), the Chicago White Sox, the Oakland A’s and the Houston Rockets to name a few. She was also asked to perform 2 halftime shows (Houston Rockets and LA Clippers), which she did with Brain in their first live performances as “Brain and Melissa”. In addition, she was recently honored, having been asked to perform at the 34th annual UNICEF Gala tour in Germany, as a recording artist/ambassador for the United States.

As of 2016, Melissa was thrilled accepting the opportunity to join legendary rock band Guns N' Roses as their first ever female band member - playing keyboards, samplers and singing background vocals. The Guns N' Roses "Not In This Lifetime" tour has been one of the highest grossing tours of all time and has sold out tour dates world wide. Melissa was also excited to have contributed musically to the band’s two newest released singles “ABSUЯD” and “Hard Skool”, which coincidentally feature Brain on drums as well. The band is currently on another world tour, with more to come in 2023.