She had a great job, glossy well-behaved blonde hair, a CBD apartment, plenty of designer clothes, a good-looking merchant banker boyfriend, and a gaggle of loyal friends from her schooldays at a pricey Ladies' College and her Arts/Commerce studies at Melbourne University. But somehow, it wasn't enough.

The Melk's quarter-life crisis came to a head when she realised she had been a bridesmaid at four of her friends' weddings, and had only managed to pick up one groomsman. Since most people make approximately five career changes in their working life, the Melk put her HR skills in play and turned to hip-hop MCing. Her debut album, Wet Wet Rouge, was a commercial and critical smash hit, and the Melk became the charismatic mouthpiece for a disenfranchised generation of white tertiary-educated professional women.

Playing a key role in the Melk's rise to superstardom is raffish hip-hop producer-about-town, DJ c-ZA, who met the Melk in a city bar when she complimented him on his distressed Roy jeans and upturned polo shirt collar. c-ZA knew the Melk's pain, for he came of age on the mean streets of Camberwell, suspended from the tough schoolyard of Xavier College for drug-related offences. He abandoned a promising career in music retail to realise his dream of creating a hot Melbourne party sound. c-ZA and the Melk have been making beautiful music since 2002. The Melk is the only chick he lets touch his hair.

The Melk's dynamic live shows are engineered by director Linda Catalano. If anything can be produced, written, directed or performed with maximum verve and glamour, Linda has probably done it - most recently for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Fringe and the famous 'Gilded Balloon' at the Edinburgh Fringe. And nobody wears higher heels or has a more in-depth appreciation of Supré's range of fine apparel.