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Scots Songwriter Rachelle Rhienne Wins UK Competition

• 24th Jun 2015

Earlier this year Future Music launched a brand new Songwriting Competition to find the best songwriters in the UK and it has found its first winners! Joining a long line of prestigious Future Music competition winners, Rachelle Rhienne from West Dunbartonshire, Scotland has been crowned the winner of the national Songwriting Competition at Dingwalls in London!

Rachelle Rhienne was crowned champion in front of a capacity crowd and a prestigious music industry judging panel at the world-renowned music venue Dingwalls in Camden, London on Sunday night. Her original song called “The Chance to Say” won over the competition industry judges making her a winner of the Songwriting Competition.

The national Songwriting Competition is brought to you by Future Music – the company behind the discovery of artists such as Lucy Spraggan, Luke Friend and Karen Hardy all of which have had chart success this year, Jacob Banks, Warner Music’s Birdy, Union J’s Jaymi Hensley and Jahmene Douglas, both of which are now signed to Sony Music.

After impressing the judging panel at the auditions, Rachelle Rhienne went on to perform in the Songwriting Competition live Regional showcase to make it to the national Grand Final.

The judging panel for the Grand Final included record label representatives from Sony and Universal, as well as representatives from music management companies, recording studios and professional songwriters. Also picked by the judging panel as winners were Tom Auton from Cardiff, Wales who was crowned overall winner and Mairead Furlong from Stratford, London who took home the 3rd place position of the competition.

Future Music is also about to start auditions for the national music competition Open Mic UK, which will be taking place this summer across UK, for more information and to enter go to: www.openmicuk.co.uk.