birthplace: New England area, United States
discography:
- catalog: 302 066 792 2
  date: '2007-02-13'
  link: album/58041
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Score Vocals
  - Special Thanks
  titles:
    en: 'Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'
    ja: 'Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'
    ja-latn: 'Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'
  type: anime
- catalog: '5284'
  date: '2009-11-16'
  link: album/16054
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Vocals
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed II Original Game Soundtrack
    ja: Assassin's Creed II Original Game Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed II Original Game Soundtrack
  type: game
- catalog: '300034736'
  date: '2010-11-16'
  link: album/21960
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Vocals
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Game Soundtrack
    ja: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Game Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Game Soundtrack
  type: bonus
- catalog: '7893'
  date: '2010-11-18'
  link: album/21691
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Vocals
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Original Game Soundtrack
    ja: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Original Game Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Original Game Soundtrack
  type: game
- catalog: FEM-0007
  date: '2011-11-01'
  link: album/29902
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: ULTIMATUM
    ja: ULTIMATUM
    ja-latn: ULTIMATUM
  type: works
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2011-11-11'
  link: album/41837
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: ULTIMATUM
    ja: ULTIMATUM
    ja-latn: ULTIMATUM
  type: works
- catalog: '21446'
  date: '2011-11-15'
  link: album/29870
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Vocalist
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - Vol. II Single Player
    ja: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - Vol. II Single Player
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - Vol. II Single
      Player
  type: game
- catalog: '22644'
  date: '2011-11-15'
  link: album/29868
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Vocalist
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - Vol. I Single Player
    ja: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - Vol. I Single Player
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - Vol. I Single
      Player
  type: game
- catalog: '22647'
  date: '2011-11-15'
  link: album/29874
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Vocalist
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - The Complete Recordings
    ja: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - The Complete Recordings
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - The Complete
      Recordings
  type: game
- catalog: SCV-0010112L
  date: '2012-01-31'
  link: album/30475
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Female Vocals
  titles:
    en: SOULCALIBUR V ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
    ja: SOULCALIBUR V ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
    ja-latn: SOULCALIBUR V ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
  type: game
- catalog: SE-3022-2
  date: '2012-08-14'
  link: album/31949
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Vocals
  titles:
    en: Darksiders II Original Soundtrack
    ja: Darksiders II Original Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Darksiders II Original Soundtrack
  type: game
- catalog: ACE-001-1~6
  date: '2012-09-06'
  link: album/33632
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: ASSASSIN'S CREED EZIO SAGA Original Soundtrack
    ja: ASSASSIN'S CREED EZIO SAGA Original Soundtrack
    ja-latn: ASSASSIN'S CREED EZIO SAGA Original Soundtrack
  type: bonus
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2013-07-02'
  link: album/40967
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: Jesper Kyd's LEGACY
    ja: Jesper Kyd's LEGACY
    ja-latn: Jesper Kyd's LEGACY
  type: works
- catalog: FEM-0017
  date: '2013-07-02'
  link: album/40973
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: Jesper Kyd's LEGACY
    ja: Jesper Kyd's LEGACY
    ja-latn: Jesper Kyd's LEGACY
  type: works
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2014-02-18'
  link: album/44568
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: 'Video Games Live: Bonus Round!'
    ja: 'Video Games Live: Bonus Round!'
    ja-latn: 'Video Games Live: Bonus Round!'
  type: bonus
- catalog: SE-3148-2
  date: '2015-10-02'
  link: album/54634
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Vocalist
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - The Complete Recordings
    ja: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - The Complete Recordings
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed Revelations Original Game Soundtrack - The Complete
      Recordings
  type: game
- catalog: '120192'
  date: '2016-09-30'
  link: album/62077
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: 'Assassin''s Creed: The Best of Jesper Kyd'
    ja: 'Assassin''s Creed: The Best of Jesper Kyd'
    ja-latn: 'Assassin''s Creed: The Best of Jesper Kyd'
  type: game
- catalog: SE-3206-2
  date: '2016-12-02'
  link: album/63349
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: Dead Rising 4 Original Soundtrack
    ja: Dead Rising 4 Original Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Dead Rising 4 Original Soundtrack
  type: game
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2020-07-17'
  link: album/101336
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: 'Assassin''s Creed Valhalla: Out of the North'
    ja: 'Assassin''s Creed Valhalla: Out of the North'
    ja-latn: 'Assassin''s Creed Valhalla: Out of the North'
  type: game
- catalog: LKS35802
  date: '2020-11-13'
  link: album/105809
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Vocals
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Original Game Soundtrack
    ja: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Original Game Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Original Game Soundtrack
  type: game
- catalog: LKS35818
  date: '2021-05-28'
  link: album/110562
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Vocalist
  titles:
    en: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Original Game Soundtrack
    ja: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Original Game Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Original Game Soundtrack
  type: game
- catalog: G0100047406120
  date: '2022-03-25'
  link: album/119190
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Artist
  titles:
    en: Horizon Forbidden West Official Soundtrack
    ja: Horizon Forbidden West Official Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Horizon Forbidden West Official Soundtrack
  type: game
- catalog: G010005064404R
  date: '2023-05-19'
  link: album/129739
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Artist
  titles:
    en: 'Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores - Official Soundtrack'
    ja: 'Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores - Official Soundtrack'
    ja-latn: 'Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores - Official Soundtrack'
  type: game
- catalog: '19658733192'
  date: '2023-07-14'
  link: album/123612
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Artist
  - Vocals
  titles:
    en: Horizon Forbidden West Official Soundtrack
    ja: Horizon Forbidden West Official Soundtrack
    ja-latn: Horizon Forbidden West Official Soundtrack
  type: game
- catalog: '19658733201'
  date: '2023-08-11'
  link: album/123630
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Artist
  titles:
    en: Horizon Forbidden West Complete OST Deluxe Edition
    ja: Horizon Forbidden West Complete OST Deluxe Edition
    ja-latn: Horizon Forbidden West Complete OST Deluxe Edition
  type: game
- catalog: '19658733221'
  date: '2023-08-11'
  link: album/123629
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Featured Artist
  titles:
    en: Horizon Forbidden West Soundtrack Essential
    ja: Horizon Forbidden West Soundtrack Essential
    ja-latn: Horizon Forbidden West Soundtrack Essential
  type: game
featured_on: []
info:
  Birthplace: New England area, United States
  Credited works:
  - 26 albums in database
  - 8 products in database
  Credits:
  - 14 vocals
  - 9 performer
  - 6 featured vocalist
  - 5 featured artist
  - 1 score vocals
  - 1 special thanks
  - 1 female vocals
  Variations:
  - names:
      en: Melissa R Kaplan
  - names:
      en: Melissa Kaplan
link: artist/12532
meta:
  added_date: 2012-05-04T12:59
  edited_date: 2022-11-04T15:43
  fetched_date: 2025-11-18T21:44
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 5991
name: Melissa R. Kaplan
notes: 'A singer and songwriter. Covers both traditional and non-traditional styles
  with influences of various genres (rock, electronic, jazz) and Bulgarian as well
  as Middle Eastern music. Former member of band Splashdown. Her current project is
  called Universal Hall Pass.

  Her most notable work for video game soundtracks is probably vocal performance and
  choral arrangements in Assassin''s Creed franchise, although she is also credited
  as a vocalist in Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, The Chronicles of Spellborn, Frequency,
  Amplitude, Rise of Nightmares, and Darksiders II as well as singing and arranging
  for film and television.'
picture_full: https://media.vgm.io/artists/23/12532/12532-1336165339.png
picture_small: https://thumb-media.vgm.io/artists/23/12532/12532-1336165339.png
sex: female
type: Individual
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/artist/12532?perpage=99999
websites:
  Official: []
