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Awards
Brit wins international songwriting competition
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 30 April 2010
A UK songwriter has won the US-based International Songwriting Competition for the first time. Brit King Charles took the global songwriting programme’s Grand Prize, which comes with $25,000 in cash and $20,000’s worth of other goodies. His song ‘Love Lust’ beat some 15,000 other entries to take the overall prize in the annual competition, whose judging panel includes Tom Waits, Jerry Lee Lewis, Robert Smith, Robbie Williams, Kings of Leon, Timbaland, Adele and Gary Lightbody.
ISC founder and director Candace Avery told CMU: “The song ‘Love Lust’ is one of the most inventive songs I’ve ever heard. It is rare that an artist comes along who is so creative, interesting, and most importantly, authentic. There is such a depth to his artistry that it seems as if the creativity just pours out of him. I am confident he has a hugely successful career ahead of him”.
You will be able to see King Charles do his stuff at next month’s Great Escape festival in Brighton.
