CHICAGO, IL. (Top40 Charts/ Western Publicity) Canadian singer-songwriter Emma-Lee and eOne
Music Canada today announced the launch of its online cover song contest 'Figure It Out' at https://www.emma-lee.com/figureitout. This initiative will help one artist or band receive a free music video with award-winning
Director Gavin Michael Booth (Vanessa Carlton, Thurd Eye Blind, Our Lady Peace, The Dream); a songwriting session and demo recording with 'Figure It Out' songwriters Emma-Lee and
Karen Kosowski. Along with an official music video, the winner will also receive a behind-the-scenes making of the music video featurette, a live acoustic performance video shot on the set and a lyric video for the track as well.
Secondary prizes including a Valco Electric Guitar and $200.00 to spend on anything to help you to…well..figure it out. A third prize of $100.00 iTunes gift card and $100 gift certificate to your local grocery store. The contest begins today and will run until June 1, 2012.
'The
Internet has allowed musicians like myself to reach out to a huge audience. I wanted to help artists with the creation of their own music video by a true pro, and, in keeping with the fun break-up story set in a supermarket storyline for the Figure It Out video, give them some support by way of an instrument, some music to listen to, and food!'
The contest will invite artists from across North
America with a mission of finding the next great cover version of Figure It Out, showcasing them to the music industry and general public alike. Artists from all genres are invited to submit their video online at https://www.emma-lee.com/figureitout.
The judging panel will consist of Emma-Lee, and eOne Music, Canada's leading audio label and distribution company.
The video for 'Figure It Out' as been added to
Heavy Rotation on MuchMoreMusic with several cuts from the album added to CBC
Radio 1, 2 and 3. Emma-Lee's latest album, Backseat Heroine is, as Emma-Lee herself puts it, an album that 'leans more
Stevie Nicks than
Sarah Vaughn.' It is, as the saying goes, a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n' roll, by turns rambling and rootsy in a comfortably familiar CanCon manner, by turns robustly feminine and soulful in the vein of classic '70s soft-pop. It gets rambunctious and rollicking on the barroom-ready 'Shadow of a Ghost.' It revs up into an unassumingly sexy species of sashaying, Dusty Springfield-worthy soulful cool on 'Figure it Out.' It retires to its quarters for a quiet cry on 'Just Looking' and 'The Pool of Tears.'
Emma-Lee has earned rave reviews ranging from daily newspapers such as the
Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star to alternative newsweeklies such as Now, Vue Weekly and the Montreal Mirror to the nationwide style bibles Chatelaine and Fashion magazine. Even influential American alt-country mag No Depression weighed in with the declaration that 'she is no flash in the pan, or here-today-and-gone-tomorrow dabbler … Blessed with a voice that sounds powerful and fragile at the same time, Emma-Lee displays a subtlety and nuance in her phrasing that one usually associates with an older and more experienced singer.'
Official video for Figure It Out:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyw3yvC0rgo
