Melinda Doolittle is a twenty-eight year old back-up singer from Brentwood, Tennessee. She started singing when she was on 7th grade and she took up music major in College and some vocal lessons. Melinda's personal goal in life is represent Christ well and do everything 150% She said her lucky charm is the Bible and that she always pray before she performs. She said her idol is her mom.

Before her audition, Melinda had such a level of excitement that she had to sit on her hands to keep them from shaking. Randy Jackson said on her audition, “This girl today that was really shy that was a background singer, sings with Mandisa a lot, and she auditioned and she was the bomb.”

Simon Cowell said “Melinda, we have a lot of people who come in here with a lot of attitude and a lot of confidence, and they’re not very good. You walk in with no confidence, no attitude, and yet you are a brilliant singer…a brilliant singer, seriously, you know you are what it’s all about, a great voice. I’m concerned about the lack of confidence about the fact that you’ve been in the background, but let me tell you, you are in the top two percent of good singers this year.”

Since day 1, Melinda has consistently impressed the judges and now, America and the whole world as well.

Watch Melinda’s performances since the beginning to present:

Since You Been Gone
My Family Valentine
I’m A Woman
For Once In My Life (audition)

Melinda offers the following piece of advice in the about section on her MySpace page, “Dream God size dreams and you can never go wrong. Love big, dream big and believe it will happen.”

Go Melinda!!!