Canadian country music recording artist and rising star Melissa Endean is proud to announce today’s release of her poignant new music video. “Til We’re Dirt” fiercely and honestly dramatizes the heartbreaking effect addiction has on lives and relationships, as well as the wake of devastation it leaves behind, featuring powerful performances by Karli Wright and Carmen Davis. Directed by Peter Cameron-Inglis, the video was produced by Mastermind Studios in Kamloops, B.C. with the support of Creative BC, the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver. The title song is dark yet catchy, and pushes the boundaries of country music for a completely unique sound.
Melissa wrote the treatment of this video while working on a medical detox unit. “I saw so many lives ripped apart by addiction,” she explains, “it was important to me to show in the music video what that can actually look like, and I wanted the video to highlight that there isn’t one stereotypical type of person that can experience the life-altering effects of addiction-it can happen to anyone, at any age, it doesn’t discriminate.”
| Melissa is an accomplished performer as well as a songwriter, with an immediately recognizable and distinctive vocal style that carries enormous range and power, garnering frequent comparisons to Dolly Parton, Patty Griffin, and Tammy Wynette. To-date, Melissa has achieved notable success and has worked with many prominent names in the industry, including Jason Wilbur (John Prine) and Grammy award winning producer, Chuck Turner (June Carter Cash-Wildwood Flower). She is an independent artist with Tiger Music Productions. Hailing from Kamloops (Barnhartvale) in the interior of British Columbia, Melissa was raised in a family of professional musicians that included a grandfather who once toured with the legendary Johnny Cash. From the time that she was old enough to talk, Melissa was onstage, making her first public appearance as a country vocalist at just eight years of age. She released her first EP at just 18 years old, as part of the family band, The Endean Sisters, to immediate success, with Melissa’s first underground single release, “Kiss My Canadian Ass”, quickly becoming a local hit. Early in 2022, after a five year hiatus from the music industry to raise her children, Melissa went back to her roots as a country musician and re-entered the music scene with an unrestrained and unapologetic passion that is reflected in a collection of gut-wrenchingly honest and emotionally pure tracks that speak to the potential of neo-traditional & outlaw country. Within a few short weeks of re-entering the music industry, she was invited into studio by award winning Nashville producer, Dean Miller (Dolly Parton, Allison Krauss, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Terri Clark, Kacey Musgraves).Melissa’s highly anticipated EP is scheduled for release in 2023, and will include “Til We’re Dirt” produced by Dean Miller, as well as the feature track “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”, a traditional American Folk song made famous by Johnny Cash, which was recorded live at the world famous Cash Cabin Studios in Hendersonville, Tennessee, by Grammy award winner, Chuck Turner, and on which Melissa can be heard playing one of Cash’s famous Martin guitars. |
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