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Mel Brennan is a singer songwriter from Ballarat, Victoria, currently living in Barcelona, Spain. She grew up listening to British rock bands like Dire Straits and The Police, as well as jazz and bossa nova classics from Cole Porter and Antonio Carlos Jobim. She would go to Celtic music gigs and bush dances, mostly hosted by her Dad’s band ‘Last Man Standing’, and as a teenager she sang in the Ballarat Gospel choir ‘The Mini Monas’ where she developed an ear for interesting rhythms & harmonies. In her final years of high school, she had a Beatles-obsessed music teacher who taught his students everything he knew about quality song writing. Her father, Chris Brennan, a talented singer songwriter himself and writer of musicals, has also had an immeasurable influence on his daughter’s own development. Mel’s musical style combines these early influences with her more recent experiences as a young adult living abroad in South America and Spain, where she fell in love with the Spanish