Melissa the Violinist is actually a Classical Violinist who originally comes from Pennsylvania. She models for a period of time of 3 years and also entered the pageant system. She chose to keep her music and modeling separate. Unfortunately, she has struggled. There was a model in the 80s were was very smart and utilized her modeling to propel her music career while she was with Wilhelmina. Her name was Whitney Houston. In fact, Whitney Houston met Billy Joel while on a Caribbean Island because a contemporary model of the time, who dated Billy Joel was with her for the same shoot. That model was Christie Brinkley who was with Ford Models out of NYC. In any business and especially the entertainment industry, each person should try to allign themselves with others that have influence.