Monday is D-Day for songwriter Lisa
Paisley singer-songwriter Lisa Kowalski will find out on Monday if she has won a top music industry award.
Fresh from finishing in the top six of the Salute UK music contest and winning the Renfrewshire Live and Unsigned competition run by Brick Lane Studios, Lisa is a finalist in the Young Songwriter 2018 competition with her song Free Spirits.
This year’s competition attracted close to 500 high-quality entries from cities across the world, including London, Dublin, Cairo, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Nashville, New York, Reykjavik, Zagreb and Melbourne.
The 18-year-old has been shortlisted alongside nine others in the 13 to 18-year-old category, with another 10 singers in the eight to 12-year category.
Judges for the competition include singer songwriter Tom Odell, who won the BBC Sound of 2013 award and BRIT Awards Critics Choice; songwriter and producer Guy Chambers, who co-wrote the Robbie Williams hit Angels and has also worked with Kylie Minogue, Tom Jones, Mark Ronson and Irish singer Imelda May.
The winners will be announced on Monday at 6pm on the competition’s Twitter page.
As part of the contest, Lisa will perform alongside her fellow finalists and highlycommended entrants in front of family, friends and the general public at the Westfield shopping centre, in London, tomorrow.
The Young Songwriter 2018 compilation album will also be released in June.
To vote for Lisa and find out more about the competition, go to songacademy.co.uk/ says18/