Melissa Reese - wikipedia Melissa Reese Melissa Reese Melissa Reese in 2012. Background information Seattle, Washington, U.S. Genres Hard rock heavy metal glam metal alternative rock alternative metal electronica experimental rock Occupation ( s ) Singer songwriter musician producer Instruments Synthesizers keyboards sampler piano vocals Years active 2006 -- present Labels Geffen Associated acts Guns N ' Roses Brain Buckethead Bootsy Collins Website MelissaReeseMusic.com Melissa Reese is an American musician and model best known for her collaborations with Bryan `` Brain '' Mantia and her current position in hard rock band, Guns N ' Roses. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Brain and Melissa 2.2 Guns N ' Roses 3 Discography 4 References 5 External links Early life Reese was born in Seattle, Washington. She is the youngest of three girls born into a racially - mixed household of Chinese, English, Spanish, Japanese, Filipino, Irish, Scottish and Danish descent. Reese began singing and playing piano at age 4. She started writing music on the piano at age 12. At 13 years old, she was discovered by Grammy award winning musician Tom Whitlock, who helped her get into the music industry. When she was 17, she learned Pro Tools, Reason, and Logic Pro and began performing and producing her own music. She attended Roosevelt High School, where she sang in the vocal jazz ensemble. Reese won an outstanding soloist award at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in high school. After graduating school, Reese began experimenting with recording, creating a module that featured a Boss BR - 8 and a Roland Groovebox. In her early 20 's, she moved to Los Angeles to study music full - time. Career Reese performing with Guns N ' Roses in 2016. Her first EP, Lissa, was released in 2007 under the name Lissa, and featured collaboration with Bryan Mantia and Pete Scaturro. Three of the songs of the EP were featured in various TV shows, including Gossip Girl and Keeping up with the Kardashians. Reese has worked with funk artist Bootsy Collins, rapper Chuck D, singer Vanessa Carlton, soul artist Goapele and singer Taylor Swift. In addition to composing, Reese has produced work for artists such as Drumma Boy. She also did work on the soundtrack for the movie The Assignment. In October 2016, Reese sang `` The Star - Spangled Banner '' before a Seattle Seahawks game. Brain and Melissa Reese has worked on several projects with Mantia, a composing team dubbed `` Brain and Melissa ''. In 2010, along with Buckethead, they released the multi-CD sets Kind Regards and Best Regards. Brain and Melissa composed part of the soundtrack to the video game Infamous 2, for which they were nominated for `` Outstanding Achievement in Original Composition '' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awards. Other video games the duo worked on include PlayStation Home, ModNation Racers, Twisted Metal, Fantasia : Music Evolved and Infamous : Second Son. They also scored the films Detention and Power / Rangers. They have worked with music video director Joseph Kahn on several television commercials for NASCAR, SEAT, and Qoros. In addition, they scored a commercial for Johnnie Walker Blue which featured a computer - generated Bruce Lee. They also worked on several remixes of songs from Chinese Democracy for a planned remix album. In addition, the two created a stock music album called Eclectic Cinema alongside former Guns N ' Roses guitarist Paul Tobias, and Guns N ' Roses and Buckethead collaborator Pete Scaturro. They are currently working on the soundtrack for the upcoming movie Death Race 4 : Anarchy and the upcoming Joseph Kahn film `` Bodied ''. Guns N ' Roses Reese after a Guns N ' Roses concert in 2016. Reese joined Guns N ' Roses in 2016 as the band 's second keyboardist, replacing Chris Pitman, while also playing synthesizer, sub-bass, background vocals, and programming for all electronic sounds during live performances. She first performed with the band on the Not in This Lifetime... Tour. Upon joining the band, she had two weeks to learn and master 50 songs to prepare for the tour, working 15 hours a day to learn them. As well as singing backing vocals, Reese 's role in the band has been described as the `` enhancer '', using Akai samplers among other tools to produce sounds from `` Chinese Democracy '' songs, and playing the Moog synthesizer on `` Paradise City ''. Speaking of her role, she stated `` I do n't want to get in the way of these songs. On the keys, I add sonic layers to thicken our sound, without sticking out like a sore thumb. Anything from synths ( to ) organic patches and samples. '' Discography Solo Work LISSA EP ( 2007 ) ( with Brain and Pete Scaturro ) Feel It ( 2 : 49 ) Girlfriend ( 2 : 25 ) Pretty Please ( 2 : 43 ) Oooh La La ( 2 : 35 ) Old Skool ( 2 : 56 ) ( feat. Mar Brooks ) Remember The Times ( 3 : 18 ) ( feat. Mar Brooks and Buckethead ) The Valence Project - `` No Way '', `` Future People '', `` If We Get it - We Know We 're Getting Good '', `` In This Life '' ( 2010 ) ( also featuring Brain ) Eclectic Cinema - `` Ride or Die '', `` Ooh La La '', `` Feel It '', `` Girlfriend '', `` Pretty Please '', `` Mother Nature '', `` Old Skool '', `` Remember the Times '' ( Released 2013, most songs previously recorded, also featuring Paul Tobias ) The Assignment - `` Tomboy '' ( feat. Raney Shockne ) ( 2017 ) Releases under Brain & Melissa Playstation Home - `` You and Me '', `` My World '', `` Forever '' ( 2008 ) Don King Presents : Prizefighter - `` Main theme '' ( 2008 ) ModNation Racers - `` Modnation Theme '' ( 2010 ) MLB 2K11 - `` MLB 2k Theme '' ( 2011 ) Detention soundtrack ( 2011 ) Infamous 2 - `` Infamous 2 Theme '', `` The Swamp '', `` Eroico Con Moto '' ( 2011 ) Fear Not - `` Fear Not 1&2 '' ( 2011 ) The Horror of Barnes Folly - `` Main Theme '' ( 2011 ) Twisted Metal - `` Race 2 Distruction '', `` Ready to Die '', `` Twisted Metal Theme '' ( 2012 ) Power / Rangers soundtrack ( 2015 ) Bloodborne - `` Bloodborne '', `` The Night Unfurls '', `` Moonlit Melody '' ( 2015 ) Infamous : Second Son - `` BadAss Combat '', `` Double Crossed '', `` Higher Elevation '' ( 2015 ) with Brain and Buckethead Best Regards ( 2010 ) Kind Regards ( 2010 ) Warm Regards ( unreleased ) References ^ Jump up to : `` Meet Melissa Reese, Guns N ' Roses ' New Keyboard Player ''. Ultimate Classic Rock. April 2, 2016. Retrieved April 3, 2016. ^ Jump up to : Melissa Reese Music : About ^ Jump up to : Tavana, Art ( May 3, 2017 ). `` Guns N ' Roses ' First Female Member Has Become a Rock Icon ''. Retrieved May 4, 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` Melissa Reese : On the Road with Guns N ' Roses - ROLI ''. November 11, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` About -- Brain and Melissa ''. Retrieved April 3, 2016. Jump up ^ `` Lissa * - Lissa ''. Discogs. Retrieved May 4, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Video : GUNS N ' ROSES Keyboardist MELISSA REESE Sings National Anthem At SEAHAWKS Vs. FALCONS Game In Seattle ''. October 25, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition ''. Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Retrieved November 13, 2014. Jump up ^ `` BBH China brings Legend Bruce Lee back to life in gamechanging campaign for Johnnie Walker ''. Campaign Brief. Retrieved October 22, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Eclectic Cinema by Various Artists on Apple Music ''. iTunes. Retrieved May 4, 2017. Jump up ^ Brett Buchanan ( April 2, 2016 ). `` Guns N ' Roses Adds First Female Member ''. AlternativeNation.net. Retrieved April 3, 2016. External links Official website Brain and Melissa website Guns N ' Roses Axl Rose Slash Duff McKagan Dizzy Reed Richard Fortus Frank Ferrer Melissa Reese Izzy Stradlin Tracii Guns Ole Beich Rob Gardner Steven Adler Matt Sorum Gilby Clarke Paul Tobias Robin Finck Josh Freese Tommy Stinson Chris Pitman Buckethead Bryan `` Brain '' Mantia Ron `` Bumblefoot '' Thal DJ Ashba Studio albums Appetite for Destruction G N ' R Lies Use Your Illusion I Use Your Illusion II `` The Spaghetti Incident ? '' Chinese Democracy Live albums Live Era ' 87 -- ' 93 Extended plays Live ? ! * @ Like a Suicide Guns N ' Roses The `` Civil War '' EP Compilation albums Use Your Illusion Greatest Hits Singles `` It 's So Easy '' `` Welcome to the Jungle '' `` Sweet Child o ' Mine '' `` Paradise City '' `` Patience '' `` Nightrain '' `` You Could Be Mine '' `` Do n't Cry '' `` Live and Let Die '' `` Knockin ' on Heaven 's Door '' `` November Rain '' `` Yesterdays '' `` Civil War '' `` Ai n't It Fun '' `` Estranged '' `` Since I Do n't Have You '' `` Sympathy for the Devil '' `` Chinese Democracy '' Promo singles `` Mr. Brownstone '' `` My Michelle '' `` 14 Years '' `` Pretty Tied Up '' `` Dead Horse '' `` Hair of the Dog '' `` Oh My God '' `` Better '' `` Street of Dreams '' Other songs `` Think About You '' `` Rocket Queen '' `` Used to Love Her '' `` One in a Million '' `` Coma '' `` Get in the Ring '' `` The Garden '' `` Madagascar '' `` Prostitute '' Videos and DVDs Use Your Illusion I Use Your Illusion II Garden of Eden : Strictly Limited Edition Welcome to the Videos Appetite for Democracy 3D Tours The Early Days of Guns N ' Roses Appetite for Destruction Tour Use Your Illusion Tour Guns N ' Roses / Metallica Stadium Tour Chinese Democracy Tour Up Close and Personal Tour Appetite for Democracy Not in This Lifetime... Tour Related Articles Discography Members Songs Awards and nominations Del James West Arkeen Guns N ' Roses Pinball Riverport Riot Watch You Bleed : The Saga of Guns N ' Roses The Roots of Guns N ' Roses Uzi Suicide Bands BulletBoys The Dead Daisies Hollywood Rose Johnny Crash Kings of Chaos L.A. Guns Love Spit Love Metallica Neurotic Outsiders Nine Inch Nails Praxis The Psychedelic Furs Road Crew Slash 's Snakepit Velvet Revolver Book Buckethead Travis Dickerson Bill Laswell Bootsy Collins Les Claypool Bryan Mantia Bernie Worrell Serj Tankian John Zorn Dan Monti Pinchface Extrakd DJ Disk Maximum Bob Efrem Schulz Saul Williams Gigi Maura Davis Azam Ali Jas Obrecht Bill Moseley Melissa Reese Solo discography Studio albums Bucketheadland ( 1992 ) Giant Robot ( 1994 ) The Day of the Robot ( 1996 ) Colma ( 1998 ) Monsters and Robots ( 1999 ) Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse ( 2001 ) Funnel Weaver ( 2002 ) Bermuda Triangle ( 2002 ) Electric Tears ( 2002 ) Bucketheadland 2 ( 2003 ) Island of Lost Minds ( 2004 ) Population Override ( 2004 ) The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell ( 2004 ) Enter the Chicken ( 2005 ) Kaleidoscalp ( 2005 ) Inbred Mountain ( 2005 ) The Elephant Man 's Alarm Clock ( 2006 ) Crime Slunk Scene ( 2006 ) Pepper 's Ghost ( 2007 ) Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot ( 2007 ) Cyborg Slunks ( 2007 ) Albino Slug ( 2008 ) Slaughterhouse on the Prairie ( 2009 ) A Real Diamond in the Rough ( 2009 ) Forensic Follies ( 2009 ) Needle in a Slunk Stack ( 2009 ) Shadows Between the Sky ( 2010 ) Spinal Clock ( 2010 ) Captain EO 's Voyage ( 2010 ) Electric Sea ( 2012 ) Pikes series 3 Foot Clearance 2011 It 's Alive Empty Space Underground Chamber Look Up There 2012 Balloon Cement The Shores of Molokai Racks March of the Slunks The Silent Picture Book 2013 Forgotten Library Propellar Pike 13 The Mark of Davis Pike 15 The Boiling Pond The Spirit Winds Pike 18 Teeter Slaughter Thaw Spiral Trackway Sphere Facade Telescape Slug Cartilage Pancake Heater Worms for the Garden Halls of Dimension Feathers Splatters Mannequin Cemetery Pearson 's Square Rise of the Blue Lotus Pumpkin Thank you Ohlinger 's The Pit Hollowed Out It Smells Like Frogs Twisterlend Pikes Coat of Charms Wishes 2014 Backwards Chimney Pike 43 You Ca n't Triple Stamp a Double Stamp The Coats of Claude Rainy Days Roller Coaster Track Repair Hide in the Pickling Jar Monument Valley Pitch Dark Claymation Courtyard Factory City of Ferris Wheels The Frankensteins Monsters Blinds The Miskatonic Scale Cycle Night Gallery Outpost Ydrapoej Footsteps Citacis Outlined for Citacis Grand Gallery Aquarium Hold Me Forever ( In memory of my mom Nancy York Carroll ) Leave the Light On Abandoned Slaughterhouse Assignment 033 - 03 Pike 69 Snow Slug Celery Closed Attractions Final Bend of the Labyrinth Infinity Hill Twilight Constrictor Pike 76 Bumbyride Dreamlands Pike 78 Geppetos Trunk Cutout Animatronic Carnival of Cartilage Calamity Cabin Dreamless Slumber Whirlpool Walk in Loset Our Selves Interstellar Slunk Red Pepper Restaurant The Time Travelers Dream Listen for the Whisper Pike 91 The Splatterhorn Coaster Coat Magic Lantern Northern Lights Yarn Passageways Pilot Polar Trench The Mighty Microscope In The Hollow Hills 2015 Sideway Streets Squid Ink Lodge Project Little Man The Moltrail Forest of Bamboo Weird Glows Gleam Collect Itself The Left Panel Wall To Wall Cobwebs Night of the Snow Mole Creaky Doors and Creaky Floors Herbie Theatre Glow in the Dark Marble Monsters Infinity of the Spheres Vacuum Elevator Pike 119 Louzenger Shaded Ray The Other Side of the Dark Scroll of Vegetable Rotten Candy Cane Along the River Bank Tourist Paint to the Tile Tucked Into Dreams Forever Lake Down in the Bayou Part Two Down in the Bayou Part One Chamber of Drawers Embroidery Digging Under the Basement Haunted Roller Coaster Chair Firebolt Hideous Phantasm Giant Claw Observation Hats and Glasses Last Call for the E.P. Ripley Nautical Nightmares Blank Bot Scream Sundae Kareem 's Footprint Carrotcature Popcorn Shells Invisable Forest Chickencoopscope Heaven is your Home ( For my Father, Thomas Manley Carroll ) Fog Gardens Carnival Cutouts Whisper Track The Cellar Yawns Ancient Lens Herbie Climbs a Tree Upside Down Skyway Twisted Branches Half Circle Bridge Land of Miniatures Bats in the Lite Brite Four Forms Blue Tide Ghoul Orange Tree Region Shapeless Ognarader The Windowsill Washed Away A Ghost Took My Homework Crest of the Hill The Blob Last House on Slunk Street Quilted 31 Days Til Halloween : Visitor From The Mirror 30 Days Til Halloween : Swollen Glasses 29 Days Til Halloween : Blurmwood 28 Days Til Halloween : The Insides of the Outsides 27 Days Til Halloween : Cavern Guide 26 Days Til Halloween : Bogwitch 25 Days Til Halloween : Window Fragment 24 Days Til Halloween : Screaming Scalp 23 Days Til Halloween : Wax 22 Days Til Halloween : I Got This Costume From The Sears Catalog 21 Days Til Halloween : Cement Decay 20 Days Til Halloween : Forgotten Experiment 19 Days Til Halloween : Light in Window 18 Days Til Halloween : Blue Squared 17 Days Til Halloween : 1079 16 Days Til Halloween : Cellar 15 Days Til Halloween : Grotesques 14 Days Til Halloween : Voice From The Dead Forest 13 Days Til Halloween : Maple Syrup 12 Days Til Halloween : Face Sling Shot 11 Days Til Halloween : Reflection 10 Days Til Halloween : Residue 9 Days Til Halloween : Eye on Spiral 8 Days Til Halloween : Flare Up 7 Days Til Halloween : Cavernous 6 Days Til Halloween : Underlair 5 Days Til Halloween : Scrapbook Front 4 Days Til Halloween : Silent Photo 3 Days Til Halloween : Crow Hedge 2 Days Til Halloween : Cold Frost Happy Halloween : Silver Shamrock 365 Days Til Halloween : Smash The Wishing Brook Rooms of Illusions Sunken Parlor Screen Door Hornet Crumple Trace Candle Teflecter Wheels of Ferris Pike Doors Old Toys Rain Drops on Christmas 2016 Mirror Realms Cove Cloud Out of the Attic Dragging the Fence Buildor Flormat Happy Birthday MJ 23 Arcade of the Deserted The Creaking Stairs Cabs Rooftop Drift Lightboard 22222222 Coupon Extended plays KFC Skin Piles ( 2001 ) Special releases In Search of The ( 2007 ) Acoustic Shards ( 2007 ) Bucketheadland Blueprints ( re-release ) ( 2007 ) From the Coop ( 2008 ) Videos Secret Recipe ( 2005 ) Young Buckethead Vol. 1 ( 2006 ) Young Buckethead Vol. 2 ( 2006 ) Demos Giant Robot ( 1991 ) Bucketheadland Blueprints ( 1991 ) Grab Bag # 1 ( 1995 ) Grab Bag # 2 ( 1996 ) Grab Bag # 3 ( 1998 ) As Death Cube K Dreamatorium ( 1994 ) Disembodied ( 1997 ) Tunnel ( 1999 ) DCK ( 2007 ) Monolith ( 2007 ) Torn from Black Space ( 2009 ) Notable songs `` Big Sur Moon '' ( 1998 ) `` The Ballad of Buckethead '' ( 1999 ) `` Spokes for the Wheel of Torment '' ( 2004 ) `` Jordan '' ( 2006 ) `` The Landing Beacon '' ( 2009 ) Bands and projects Artists Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan `` Brain '' Mantia Brain and Melissa Reese Brain and Travis Dickerson Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Viggo Mortensen Bands Cobra Strike Colonel Claypool 's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps El Stew Frankenstein Brothers Giant Robot Gorgone Guns N ' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis Buckethead & Brain ( Pieces ) Book : Buckethead Category : Buckethead Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melissa_Reese&oldid=805028241 '' Categories : Living people American electronic musicians American heavy metal keyboardists American rock keyboardists Guns N ' Roses members Hidden categories : Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages Use mdy dates from April 2016 Articles with hCards Talk View source Contents About Wikipedia Čeština Español Français Italiano Português Русский Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 12 October 2017, at 16 : 21. 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