full size Melanie Amaro Performs on The X Factor USA Top 9, November 22, 2011
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Melanie Amaro Performs on The X Factor USA Top 9, November 22, 2011

X Factor favorite Melanie Amaro may be singing her heart out every week on the show, but she’s been holding back something important all the same: her accent! But when she slipped this Tuesday into Rihanna-style Caribbean dialect, the 19-year-old decided to finally come clean about her origins.

“To be where I am,” Amaro gushed, “from where I’m from, here today, is a big, big thing[.]” Unlike Rihanna, Amaro hails not from Barbados, but instead from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.

For our part, we can’t understand why Amaro would want to hide such a cool accent. She went on to say, "Paula Abdul’s comment, 'Just let loose and be yourself,’ really affected me[.] … I don’t have to worry about covering up my accent anymore. So that’s good.”

We’re inclined to agree!

Source: People

 

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