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March 2005 Winners Announcement
March Winners are listed below.
March's winners and finalists include songwriters from The United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Australia, Portugal, Denmark, Romania, Israel, Germany, and The United States. If you were not selected in the top 5 of your category you can still enter the songwriting contest in another month. This month's winners/finalists include six returning winners and finalists from various months in 2004. There will be a different set of judges involved each month. This is to ensure that the song selections are not limited to the same judge's opinions throughout the year.
The March songwriting judges have sent Song of the Year their picks and the results are listed below. Vocal ability and production quality was NOT taken into consideration. A full instrumental production is not needed. The winners are picked by songwriting alone.
The 1st place March songwriting winners in each category will now compete against the other 1st place songwriting monthly winners from 2005 in their respective category. One song from each category will then move on to compete against the other yearly winners from the other categories for the Grand Prizes. The top 5 winners/finalists from each category in March's round will have their material submitted to labels, publishers, and more!
Click Here for last year's winners.
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Winner
Keaton Simons - Nobody Knows (Encino, California)
Finalists
Alexandra Larsen - Holding On (Korsoer, Denmark)
Darrell Kirchhevel - Don't Forget My Love For You, Baby (Savannah, Georgia)
Eugen Blaj of "Just Me" - The Fall Inside (Arad Romania)
Justin Brown - Treat You Right (Lake Forest Park, Washington) - Song of The Year Contest
Discography
We have just released our first album, 100% original songs. The band is young, in fact two years old, and we just started our promotion from now. Of course, we have many tracks on radio and tv local stations.
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Bio
Simona, Ela and Paul are 18 years old, they are currently studying a local music college.
Simona is our great angelic voice. She started her career very early, when she was only 8 years, performing on local stages and winning different prizes at local and national contests. There are many musicians all arround the world who appreciate her voice. They use to say that her voice is unique, but they also compared her with Kate Bush or other female artists. We all know and you will notice that she is one of our strongest point.
Sebastian is 25 years old, graduated the music college and currently in 3th degree at the conservatory of music, main instrument flute. He is a good songwriter. He easily can play on guitar, keyboards, drums, flute and he has also a very pregnant and nice voice for lead and backing.
Eugen, the leader of the group is 48 years old, no musical studies, but a life time experience in songwriting and performing on stage. In spite of the fact that we all are Romanian, Eugen easily writes his songs in English, because he finds this language more appropriate to express strong feelings in few words.
There are not direct influences that we can detect in our music, but of course, since we listen to different kind of good music (that we like), probably some of them put a fingerprint upon us. I can say that we like Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Genesis (with Phill Colins, not after), King Crimson, Electric Light Orchestra, but also Dixie Chicks, Shanya Twain, Alisson Krauss and of course Robbie Wiliams and Bon Jovi&Ritchie Samborra, for our young members.
We are different because our original songs and because our original sound, with strong vocal arrangements and fortunate mixture of instruments like two keyboards, accoustic and electric guitar and percussion.
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