Silvian

I was born in Melbourne, Australia and grew up in a household where music was one of the family. Some days my dad would have his stereo so loud we wouldn't get the chance to turn away hawkers at the front door. My mother was always singing a song while my sister and I would spend most of our time with music blaring away in our rooms. Most of my evenings as a young girl were spent with an ear glued to the radio, listening to the top 40. Sometimes I would write down the lyrics of my most favourite songs. I was around nine the night my dream of being a songwriter was realised. Elton John's 'Your song' came on the radio and I fell in love for the very first time. I knew there and then I wanted to write songs that would move people the way that song had moved me (it's still my no. 1 favourite song).

Although I have been writing my entire life, it was mainly poetry and pieces of philosophy that I wrote but music had always been an equal passion. I guess like a lot of people, I never really knew the difference between poems and songs until February 2004 when I sat down to write a story that became the song 'Sing any song'. I entered it into 'VH-1's Song of the Year' contest where I received the honor of being named 'Finalist' by the Song of the Year songwriting contest. Song of the Year is an international songwriting contest supporting VH-1's Save the Music Foundation. The Song of the Year judges are some of the biggest names in music including many Grammy Award winners. With my second entry of 'I dream' later the same year' I received an 'Honorable Mention' which was also an exciting outcome. In 2004 I was named finalist by the Unisong International Songwriting Contest for 'Sing any Song'.

At this stage in my songwriting career I'm looking foward to successfully collaborating with other songwriters/musicians and welcome those who are passionate about their music and dreams to contact me.

I have just really started to live my dream...