Background
Schneider has been performing since she was only three and performed with her mother on the album The Magic of Yodeling at the age of eight.
Schneider has been performing since she was only three and performed with her mother on the album The Magic of Yodeling at the age of eight.
She studied dance as a child and made her acting debut on the popular Australian drama A Country Practice when aged thirteen. Schneider attended Street Joseph"s Kogarah (now known as Bethany College) for her high school years.
Schneider also sang the theme music for the American Broadcasting Company television series Something in the Air. In 2006, Schneider was invited by Deborah Conway to take part in the Broad Festival project, with three other Australian female artists, they performed their own and each other"s songs. With Schneider and Conway were Mia Dyson, Kate Miller-Heidke and Ella Hooper.
She was nominated in the same category at the 2010 awards for "Courageous" with the Australian Girls Choir.
Schneider is in a domestic relationship with Choirboys band member Mark Gable. Melinda Schneider is the daughter of a policeman and veteran country performer and Yodeler Mary Schneider.
Schneider is now the host of her own show "Love Songs with Melinda Schneider" on Star 104.5 FM aired every weeknight from 8pm. As the title indicates the show focuses on songs of a romantic nature.
This is Schneider"s first radio show as host.
Schneider starred in her own theatre show Doris: So Much More Than The Girl Next Door, written by Schneider and David Mitchell. The show told the story of her Doris Day"s life and opened in May 2011 at the Twelfth Night Theatre in Brisbane before moving to Her Majesty"s Theatre in Melbourne, onto the Regal Theatre in Perth and then to the Lyric Theatre, Sydney. Her new album "Great Women of Country" is a tribute to legendary female country singer"s and composers, and is a duet album with Australian country vocalist Beccy Cole.