Melody Hogan was born in 1964, in Searcy, Arkansas, to parents who were devoted to education and invested themselves in their small town community. Born a decade after her brother and sister, Melody was raised with a dual citizenship of sorts, as baby of the family and as only child, after her siblings left home for college life. Her creativity blossomed early in life - performing vocal solos in her mother's professional music programs at the age of 4, winning her first blue ribbon for Art in the White County Fair at the age of 6, and involvement in a variety of other creative outlets througho...