In support of the summer release of her debut album The Bridge, SRC/Universal Motown Records' soulful pop artist Melanie Fiona recently released the official video for her album single Give It To Me Right.

"The album is called The Bridge," enthuses Fiona. "It crosses the barriers between ethnicities, genres, age groups, and genders. It can't be defined as just one thing. It's got a soul that's something old, yet something new."

Flirting with the traditions of classic soul from artists like Sam Cooke, Nat King Cole and Gladys Knight, the songs also pack the punch, and authenticity of modern music. United by a singular passion, Melanie Fiona's sound bridges past and present with an artistic and consistent blending of classic soul samples. It's all held together by a unique quality, something that is innately her, much like the other artists she mentions as influences: Bob Marley, Sade, and Patsy Cline.

Producers on the album include UK producers Future Cut, Vada Nobles, NYC's J. Phoenix, Peter Wade, Salaam Remi, Andrew Wyatt, Rob Fusari, and Angela Hunte, Jnay Sewell. Fiona also shows off her Caribbean roots on Reggae Gold 2008, with Supa Dups' Somebody Come Get Me.

"This experience will never happen for me again," she muses. "I'll never be a new artist again. I'll never be a complete and utter student of the game." Whatever may come when The Bridge releases on Steve Rifkind's SRC/Universal Motown Records in Spring 2009, Fiona is poised and ready. "I still live humbly out of a suitcase, and I appreciate the smallest things in life, and I want people to feel that. I have an opportunity to be on a stage, but I want my listeners to know that I'm just like them."