When Canadian songstress Melanie Doane wrote “Happy Homemaker” for her breakthrough album Adam’s Rib in 1998, she couldn’t have known how the song would eventually take on a whole new meaning in her life a few years down the road. With the birth of her first child in 2001, and a second in 2003, the poignantly poetic lyrics describing one woman’s struggle to balance a career and a home life became Melanie’s reality - one which would prove to be both chaotic and tranquil, and ultimately the inspiration behind her breathtaking new work, A Thousand Nights, available in stores and online today.

While many singers-turned-moms find themselves so fixated in their home life that their music becomes an extension of it, Melanie was determined not to follow that path per say. “I had this idea to record songs that could be the perfect bedtime music,” Melanie reflects. “Being in “kid zone” makes you think of things like this, but I was worried about labeling the album as a ‘lullaby’ record, as I wanted it to be more than that. In the end, I figured if I simply recorded great music, it [the album] could be played at bedtime for kids, or it could just be a great album for anyone, anytime.”