Malinda Kathleen Reese
American YouTube personality
Malinda Kathleen Reese (born June 27, 1994), known professionally as Malinda (stylized in all caps), is an American internet personality, singer-songwriter and stage actress. She is best known for her Irish music covers on TikTok and her channel Twisted Translations on YouTube, on which she performed songs and performances from song lyrics and other texts that have been translated through multiple languages and back into English using Google Translate, Currently, she releases original music and vlogs on her main channel. Her debut is a 2018 EP, Love Letter. In addition, she has performed in numerous theatre plays in the Washington, D.C., area, including playing Girl in the musical Once, for which she won a Helen Hayes Award in 2020.
Early life and education
Reese was born on June 27, 1994, and raised in Washington, D.C. She is the only child of Mary Hall Surface, a teacher and playwright, and Kevin Reese, an actor. She recalls spending much of her youth backstage during theater performances, and spending time in costume shops. As a teenager, she went to Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan and Broadway Artists Alliance in New York City.
She learned to play the Irish flute at the age of thirteen, having been "drawn" to the instrument from a young age. She is also able to play guitar, ukulele, electric piano, cajón, bodhrán and classical flute.
Reese attended Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., and later Vassar College, New York where she initially studied cognitive science, before switching to Drama, in which she majored, and Religion, in which she minored.
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