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MELODY KANE is a professional DJ & Radio personality from London, UK. She has her own radio show on BBC Radio 1Xtra and regularly performs at venues and festivals throughout the UK and overseas. She is as an open format DJ.

PERSONAL Born in the small town of Rustington, near Brighton on the South Coast of England, Melody was the second child to her Jamaican mother & English father. She briefly attended Chichester College where she studied performing arts, but soon left her course to focus completely on becoming a DJ.

CAREER From approxiamately 2003 onwards Melody worked for a hip hop club night in Brighton, UK called 'Urban Chic', and became part of the SonyBMG Urban Music Streeteam. During this time, Melody was performing at weddings and commercial pubs/bars to gain experience, as well as co-hosting a radio show on Brighton's community radio station Radio Reverb with fellow Brighton DJ Mister Fix.

After 2 years on local radio, Melody approached various pirate radio station in London, and was given a weekly radio show on London's East End Deja Vu FM. In 2008, Melody left Deja Vu Fm and joined North West London community radio network BANG FM, where she stayed for 2 years. In 2010 Melody was asked to perform at the SBTV website launch party in South London, where afterwards she became their only official DJ. Between 2011 and 2017 Melody had her DJ mixes regularly featured on BBC Radio 1Xtra by a number of radio DJs including Charlie Sloth, Mista Jam and DJ Target. In 2017 Melody was given her own monthly residency show on BBC 1Xtra, which started on January 3rd 2018.