Melanie's Grandmother, April Byron, is an Australian pop-rock pioneer. She worked with and was mentored by legends like Rupert Murdoch, Clyde Packer, Johnny O'Keefe and Ron Tremaine, headlined shows with the Bee Gees, starred on her own television variety show The Go! Show (on which she cast Olivia Newton John as her backup singer), appeared on the cover of hundreds of newspapers and magazines, had #1 hits, won Entertainer of the Year, and was heralded as "Australia's Elizabeth Taylor". You can read her full fascinating, heart-wrenching, epic history on her Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Byron

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Melanie's Mother, Cinderella, starred on the Australian children's variety show, Happy Go Round. Her aunt is VH1 star Candy Potts: http://www.candypotts.com/. Her older sister is Music City sensation and actress Ashenputtel (Cinderella in German) (www.ashenputtel.com), her younger sister is notable actress & celebrity chef Emmalee Rainbow Abrams (http://www.emmaleerainbowabrams.com/), and her younger brother is SAG poster child Kingsley Knecht, star of 2016's Amityville Terror.