Meliki started playing Suzuki piano in pre-school. Played for a few months then re-commenced traditional/classical piano at seven. Also started on a school violin program. At the end of the program Meliki switched to guitar. She has continued piano and guitar ever since.

She began to play jazz piano when she was ten under MD, Gil Askey (Motown arranger - Stevie Wonder/Jackson 5/Tempations/ Supremes, MD for Diana Ross, Academy Award nominee for 'Lady Sings the Blues' film score) performing with members now making up popular bands like The Cat Empire. At times she switched to bass depending on the needs of the band.

In addition, she learned trumpet and clarinet in a school program and explored percussion/drum kit and voice with some lessons.

She entered the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Secondary School (VCASS) in Year 8 where she studied Classical Guitar under Antony Field (Head of VCA Guitar and member of the Australian Guitar Quartet - Saffire ARIA 2003). She studied Jazz/Improvisation Piano with Tim Stevens and Andrea Keller (ARIA winner 2001/2003). She also studied Bass Guitar under Chris Hale. During this time she performed under a number of eminent music directors in stage, show, jazz, latin and big bands.

After studying a Bachelor of Business - Music Industry at Victoria University for 18 months, Meliki transferred to NMIT to complete qualifications concurrently in Music Business and Music Performance (keyboards) with tuition from improvization pianists Tony Gould, Steve Sedergreen and Sam Keevers. Continuing with an Adv. Dip. Music Business in 2008 she undertook an internship at AMPHead, the Australasia agent for The Orchard (a digital distribution provider) as well as staffing major concerts and festivals including the Port Nepean Music Festival and Pushover covering activities such as artist liason, signings and merchandising. During this period she participated in a number of artist workshops with Austrade and MMF relating to artist development, music licensing and touring putting these into practice as a performer.

In 2009 she turned her attention to studying electronic music composition on syntheziers integrating workstation tools such as Reason 4, Pro Tools/Cubase and Sibelious to aid in producing her next CD and further develop soundtrack composition skills. She volunteered at SYN Radio and TV to train in various production, presenting and operational skills while continuing as a live performer with her solo acoustic shows and in bands. She completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - vocational music teaching qualification at Monash University and holds a current Working With Children's certificate.

For 2010 Meliki took a conducting/band directors course over the summer along with a first aid certificate course travelling to Pennsylvania to Camp Lohikan summer camp to run rock band clinics and instruct vocals, keys, guitar and songwriting from June to August. She also entered a Bachelor of Arts - Music Industry at RMIT at 4th semester level. She further took on rehearsal pianist duties various music theatre productions, advancing to Assistant Music Director for some productions. She will play in their orchestras for the shows either on piano, guitar or bass. Upon returning from the summer camp she took on a film directors course and toured California solo in November.

In 2011 Meliki has took further training in professioal music theatre production with an internship with Newtheatricals for their Rock of Ages Australia premier. In addition she performed in the orchestra for the world premier of Grease 2:Live in Concert and fully orchestrated a revue for Dandenong Theatre Company.