M2P

Hilda "Paige" and Howard Melbourne form Mel and Paige Productions aka “M2P” began singing at the young age of 6. Through the years she sang in her father’s church, at school, in choirs, and eventually formed a band with her husband, Howard, and a friend, Brian. They started their musical career in Collingwood, ON, as Cherokee Rose. Within a year they were performing their shows at Atlantic City’s "Resorts International Hotel and Casino" with a seven-piece band and a repertoire that included jazz, R&B, pop, reggae and calypso etc. Following this electric experience they went on to tour the Bahamas and the United States. Subsequent travels have also given them the pleasure of singing to Eastern Canadian audiences from Toronto to Newfoundland. In 1981 they returned to where they started, Collingwood, ON. And secured a long-term contract with Blue Mountain Inn, Ontario’s largest ski resort. There they performed for two years, utilizing this time to highlight and sharpen their natural talent of vocal harmonies, which they consider the key to their success. Another contract led them to performing a Las Vegas Review Variety Show, at one of Ontario’s largest summer resorts, the Deerhurst Inn & Country Club in Huntsville. Here they did choreographed dancing with 30 other performers and were two of the seven singers in the Review, doing solos and duets. After an exciting, yet exhausting four years they took a “working holiday gig” for five months on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Upon their return, they began touring more of Canada to expand their fast growing fan club. They were also the house band at he owl nest in Grandview Resort & Conference Center (which is now Club Links Resort) . During that time they were able to develop his recording styles and landed a recording contract in the United States with IMG INTERNATIONAL. In 1994 EMI Canada released m2p’s first hit single ‘ Before the next teardrop falls’ on their compilation called “CLASSICAL SONGS TO A REGGAE GROOVE” that went gold. Their second release “Do You Love Me” made it to the top 30 dance chart for all of 96’ and 97. Their third release “ Just The Way You Like It ” climbed to the #15 song on the dance stations. M2P track “Do You Love Me” makes up the sound track for Rodney Dangerfield’s latest movie “My Five wives”. M2P has performed on shows such as Hot Summer Rush Fest at Canada’s Wonderland with Hits-103.5 two consecutive years, on Electric Circus, the Open Mike Show on the Comedy Network and CTV, The Camilla Scot Show on CTV, the 2000 Juno award show and many of Toronto’s top night spots. Now they are spending their time composing and producing in their studio with their daughters “ SanGia”. For their hobbies when not making music, they have been studying and teaching the martial arts style of SHITO-RYU ITOSU-KAI for 18 years under Master Kei Tsumura. They both hold 3rd. degree black belt level in their discipline.