SanGia consists of Genia and Sandra
Melbourne from Guelph, Ontario Canada.
Our Soul Rock repertoire is written and produced
by our father (Howard) Sandra, Genia and other
collaboration such as Dan Hill, Dave Martin and
John Capek. From the day we were born we
were always on the road living in the hotels and
resorts that our parents were performing in.
Being musician’s kids, you’d be lucky if you can
hold on to a childhood friend since you were
constantly traveling. But our parents took care of
that by keeping us busy with schoolwork, music
lessons, and karate in which we are both black
belts, and have won many trophies at
competitions. During the mid ‘90s our parents
under the band name, M2P, were signed to a
recording contract, playing steady gigs and
lighting up the dance charts with hits such as
“Before The Next Teardrop Falls”, “Do Ya Love
Me” and “Just The way you Like It.” “Do You
Love Me” was also in Rodney Dangerfield’s latest
movie “My Five wives”. While watching from the
side of the stage as our parents performed, we
developed a genuine love for music and a strong
desire to follow in their footsteps. At the age of
4, Genia began studying the violin while Sandra
started to sing. Later on we began performing
solos at festivals. By the age of seven Genia
became one of the youngest members to join her
town’s youth orchestra. We made a lot of
sacrifices in order to achieve our musical dream,
including not being able to hang with friends like
normal kids. Even though we were in the public
school system for a while, we were
home-schooled all year round. There was no
space in our lives for relationships, and we spent
hours each day rehearsing our act, with music
being our only focus, aside from our academic
goals. At the ages of 11 and 12 our musical career
had officially begun. In Oct. 1999, British-based
Peace Child International selected us to attend the
Millennium Young People's Congress in Hawaii
along with 1,000 other international delegates.
During the event, televised internationally by the
Millennium Television Network, we performed
our award-winning song “Where Has It Gone.”
Following this, we were finalist in the Walt
Disney Millennium Dreamers Contest and we
were awarded a trip to Disney World in Orlando,
Florida along with 2,000 other international
winners. This achievement coincided with making
it to the semifinals for a Youth Television (YTV)
Achievement Award that honors achievements
and talents of Canadians. One year into our music
career, we received interest from Major record
labels and eventually we became the first
unsigned band to perform at the 2000 Juno
Awards at the ages of 12 and 13. Shortly after,
we signed a development deal with EMI, and our
parents thought it would be best to home-school
us from grade 8 and all through secondary school
in order for us to have more time to perfect our
act. During this time we entered contests and
performed wherever we could. Such as Senior
Centers, benefit concerts, schools, The Guelph
Arts Festival where one year our performance
was aired on Rogers Television in Kitchener, the
Guelph Dance Festival, the CH TV Mother’s Day
Telethon, London Ontario’s Black History Month
Concert, the Children’s Milk Festival at the
Harbour Front in Toronto etc. Towards the end
of our secondary years of education, our focus
turned completely to an academic career, as our
musical goals were placed on the back burner,
putting the vision of a 9 to 5 job in its place.
During our search for a non-music related
profession, we realized that music was our core.
Our hearts were not willing to accept any other
occupation without music accompanying us and
we started our training once again. With our
parents also being a cover band, singing a
plethora of genres from jazz to rock to R&B, we
too have inherited the love for all genres. This
fact is showcased in our music. We believe that
all ages should be able to enjoy music, and that
parents should not have to worry about what
their children are listening to. Apart from us
focusing on our musical career, we feel it’s a
shame that so many schools have taken out their
music programs. We enjoy giving people who
love to sing, an opportunity to record their
music, and then provide a venue for them to
perform. By doing this, we feel great knowing
that we are helping others fulfill their musical
dreams.
Yo Wusup! Hope everything is good with you. Just wanted you to know i just released my new single called "Swag Xtra On". When you get a chance come through and check it out. Lata!
Yo SanGiaasaurus. I just found out that we're related...and as a special family only present we've made a new song for you called "End of Days" (start doing backflips now). It's an epic instrumental opus to the moment when our ancient Dino relatives saw a large fiery object plummeting towards them. Please come to our page, give it a listen and let us know if it makes you feel like something catastrophic is gonna happen. If the song upsets you too much we will be holding several s support groups (read: comcerts) in the near future. Check our page for locations, dates and times.
This is our singer Eric, all by himself - playing "Interstate Love Song" by Stone Temple Pilots. If you like it - be sure to share it with people - it's a fun acoustic version of the song! :) The code is at the end of the song!
Hi, SanGia, how are you! I wish you all the best! New Single is out now at iTunes, musicload, djshop, djdownload, junodownload... Crazy Z Projects - Show Me ..
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Wusup, jus showin luv to ya page!! I just dropped another single called "No Good"! When you get a chance come through and check it out. Have a great day!
