Melinda Rodriguez wants to make “real, old-school jazz” cool again. The 23-year-old Miami native is getting her chance to show the world what she’s made of on this season of The Voice.
Music was always part of Rodriguez’s life from the beginning. “I’m Puerto Rican, so I grew up listening to salsa and all that stuff,” she says. “It’s like breathing to me. That’s where it all starts — with that music. You listen to it in your house, cleaning on Sunday with your mom — that stuff is like your bloodline.”
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