Mel Parsons Lyrics

Mel Parsons (born in Westport on 21 October 1981) is an indie folk and alternative country singer/songwriter from New Zealand. She won Best Folk Artist at the 2020 New Zealand Music Awards. Parsons started out playing piano, and also picked up the guitar at about 14, finally getting serious in seventh form (about age 17) when applying for the Nelson School of Music. After a year of music school, Parsons went overseas for a period, then returned to New Zealand to attend the University of Auckland, where she studied popular music and performance, along with history, anthropology and Spanish. In 2007, Parsons started work on her first album. The album was written by Parsons, and recorded with co-producer Shaun Elley and her backing band... read more