Exclusive: “If she wins or comes close its God’s will” – Melanie Amaro’s mom
Today Wednesday December 7, 2011, Melanie, 19, and her four other top five contenders will be performing at 7/8C on Fox and tomorrow Thursday December 8, the decision as to who remains in the Top 3 spot will be revealed.
In an exclusive interview with Virgin Islands News Online from her Florida home, Mrs. Amaro expressed her sadness with not being able to be with her daughter for this part of her performance but expressed her profound satisfaction with where she has reached and their trust in God of her future.
“I feel like I am dreaming all now, I don’t feel like it’s real, like everything is just happening so fast I am very proud of her and excited for what she is doing,” the elated mother told this news agency.
“I believe what God has for her is for her and whether she wins or comes close I think is all the will of God. And we truly appreciate that,” said Mrs. Amaro.
Melanie has at stake the chance to win the $5 million dollar recording contract and the opportunity to star in the Pepsi commercial to be aired during Super Bowl Sunday.
Mrs. Amaro revealed that though Melanie was born in Florida but spent her early life in the Virgin Islands living with her grandparents, the late Inspector Wilson Sylvester and her grandmother Catherine Sylvester, today she still bears the Virgin Islands accent and proudly announced on X-Factor her affiliation to her home country.
She attended the Althea Scatliffe Primary and also her early high school years at the then BVI High School now Elmore Stoutt High School. After her grandfather died, Melanie lived for sometimes with Mrs. Amaro’s sister Yoland Sylvester before she returned to the US to live with her mom where she continued to live to date.
The proud mom said “Tortola” is Melanie’s home and that is all she tells people as she only sees herself as a Virgin Islander and nothing else. On X-Factor’s last airing, Melanie broke down in tears as she revealed her VI’s accent and said she was happy to reveal that is who she was.
“She is a wonderful young lady that is how she is, a humble young lady, she would walk away if they are to ask her to do something she is not comfortable with,” the mother revealed.
Giving a recap of Melanie’s early singing career, Mrs. Amaro traces it back to her pregnancy and Melanie’s infant stage.
“When I was pregnant with her, we are Christians, when I went for a revival meeting, the minister that was preaching called me up out of the crowd and told me, he put a song in my baby’s heart and she will always be singing,” Mrs. Amaro recalled, noting that she was seven months pregnant and didn’t even know she was having a girl baby.
She recalled when Melanie was just about six months old she would get up around 2 a.m. and would sing. “We don’t know what she is singing and she would go back to sleep and she hasn’t stopped singing since.”
She said her daughter has never really entered competitions before but was always singing at weddings, churches and other events.
Regarding her entrance into X-Factor in April and how she decided to get into it, Mrs. Amaro revealed that she pushed her daughter to enter into the competition and today is proud of that decision. She also revealed that she was encouraged to send her to American Idol but they had to pray about it as a family, but when X-Factor came along, she felt it was time for her.
“… when X Factor came along she really didn’t want to go, the last night I was at the sink washing dishes and told her it was her season you need to go and do the audition. I said Melanie I will make the decision for you, put on your clothes and you do it, so I took her down and because she was the last one to do the audition when everyone doing it, she always had to be last … it was really really hard, it had thousands of people and she had to wait till the last, we had a lot of auditions but I am really really proud to see where she has ended up.”
Melanie has received raving reviews from across the world for her singing talent and more recently her rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” has given viewers and listeners another glimpse into just what this Virgin Islander singing talent is made of.
Regarding her academic path, Mrs. Amaro said her daughter would like to become a pediatrician and was about to start college in the field of nursing when she got into X-Factor.
Mrs. Amaro thanked the Virgin Islands for their support of Melanie and urged them to vote for her as that is what will help her to stay in the top and even become the winner.
“I just want to ask the people of the BVI to vote for her who can vote, who have the magic jack, on X-Factor. She needs all the votes she can get, you can vote multiple times and I thank you in advance for doing so.”
Melanie is also the proud daughter of Hipolito “Junnie or Pops” Amaro of St. Thomas and has three siblings, Micheal, Mark and a younger sister, Maya.
For the next round which is slated to show today Wednesday, December 7, 2011, viewers will be able to cast votes for Melanie to secure her spot among the Top 3.
To vote persons can do so by either calling toll-free via Melanie’s personalised toll free number displayed during the show, via Verizon SMS/text message (for Verizon subscribers only), online via www.TheXFactorUSA.com, or Twitter direct message voting at http://twitter.thexfactorusa.com.
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