Semi-Finalists from around the world have been announced for the 2020 International Songwriting Competition. Out of more than 26,000 entries worldwide, Jenny Lou Drew’s song, American Beauty (Americana), was announced alongside roughly 2400 entries selected as Semi-Finalists yesterday.
ISC has the most prestigious panel of judges of all the songwriting and music contests in the world. If Drew’s song makes it to the next level, it will be reviewed by ISC’s 2020 judging panel of music legends. Judges for the 2020 International Songwriting Competition include Tom Waits, Tanya Tucker, Nancy Wilson, Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Sara Evans, and Irma Thomas.
Drew joins the likes of past International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalists including Tones and I, R.LUM.R, Illenium, Vance Joy, Gotye, Bastille, Kehlani, The Band Perry, Kimbra, Passenger, Kasey Chambers, Lindsey Stirling, Kate Miller-Heidke, Gregory Porter, King Charles, Gin Wigmore, Andrew Bird, for King & Country, Heather Morgan, Dave Berg, Gordie Sampson, Darrell Scott, Tom Hambridge, Omar Sosa, and more.
This is Drew’s fourth placement in the Semi-Finals of the ISC. A song of Drew’s has reached this level for every year she has submitted to the competition. in 2015 and 2018, her song, Strangelove, reached the Semi-Finals, and in 2019 Mending Fences was announced as a Semi-Finalist. This year, American Beauty, a song inspired by time Drew spent caring for hospice patients, made the first cut.
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