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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Mélanie René
Person · female · Switzerland · Geneva · born 1990
Swiss singer
Also known as 梅兰妮·勒内
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1990s
Biography
English biography127 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1365569402
Biography
Mélanie René (born 1 September 1990), also known as Meylz, is a Swiss singer and songwriter. She represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Time to Shine".
René is of Mauritian origin.
René gained recognition by winning the Swiss final for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with her composition "Time To Shine," and went on to represent Switzerland in Vienna. She trained in performing arts and songwriting at the Funambule Theatre in Nyon, Switzerland. René participated in competitions including the George Grigoriu Festival in Braila, Romania, where she received the grand prize in 2009.
She studied at the ACM (Academy of Contemporary Music) and the BIMM (Brighton Institute of Modern Music) in the United Kingdom, where she composed her Eurovision Song Contest entry.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 27 | 88.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Mélanie René head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 27 | 88.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20150514_ESC_2015_M%C3%A9lanie_Ren%C3%A9_5790.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6baab8d8-2e2f-4a8d-802b-6b3cd25238bddiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6baab8d8-2e2f-4a8d-802b-6b3cd25238bdcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18922453genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18922453seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lanie_Ren%C3%A9biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lanie_Ren%C3%A9
Why this artist is in the database
- List of singer-songwriters
Tier rule: notable long tail (listeners 0, 27 language versions)
Image: Ailura · CC BY-SA 3.0 at · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q18922453 · MusicBrainz: 6baab8d8-2e2f-4a8d-802b-6b3cd25238bd
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