Brenda-Lee Heathcote is Owner/Operator of Meat Pie Music. A new Australian publisher recognized as a Member of AMCOS and an Associate Member of APRA.------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------She is proud to announce that she is now a part of the team at UK based internet personal songwriting company "Give-A-Song.com" ............................................................ ............................................................ ..... In August 2007 at the AUSTRALIAN SONGWRITER'S AWARDS, which were held in Sydney on August 30TH, the RUDY BRANDSMA AWARD was presented to Brenda-Lee, for her song, "SO THIS IS LIFE". The song was written in dedication to her late brother 'BRIAN JAMES HEATHCOTE' a respected radio personality from Brisbane, who was murdered on January 21st 2007 ............................................................ ............................................................ .....Here's a bit of background info for those interested.....Brenda-Lee resides in Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia. Gary Morris, "Midnight Oil's" Manager was a predominant figure in Brenda-Lee's career, teaching her the "do's and don'ts" of commercial songwriting, way back in the 80's! Since then, she has written songs which have been recorded by "The Wolverines" in 2006, which was nominated for "The Peoples Choice Awards" at Tamworth Festival '07, 2 x top 10 hits for "Shaza Leigh", a top 20 for "The Spencer Band", had songs on 2 separate albums by Bobby Cash, the Indian Cowboy (The first album- "Cowboy at Heart" of which Brenda-Lee had 3 songs on (2 co-writes) went to 1 on the "One Stop Independent Country Charts" in Australia. She has also co-written 2 songs with Fergal Flaherty of Ireland, who released them through Tulip Records in Ireland. Aussie rock chick, "Gemma Luxton" released one of Brenda-Lee's songs, which did well on NFS, one of the premier national radio distributors of Aussie Country, a song called "These Are The Days" in 2004. Melbourne based band "Pfea" also recorded a Heathcote/Scullion co-write in 2003, the list goes on. Co-writers include Scott Lloyd Shelly, Lawrie Minson, Bobby Cash, Matt Scullion to name a few. Brenda-Lee was a Starmaker finalist in 1994, a Gympie Muster Grand Finalist in 1995, a TIARA Songwriters Award Winner in 1999 and the winner of the prestigeous Rudy Brandsma Award in 2007, chosen from out of over 4000 entries. She has been nominated once again in 2 categories of the 2008 ASA Awards, with a song from the album "Light of Hope" - "Talking To Ghosts", performed by Vanya. "Light of Hope" is available to purchase track by track or the entire album including pdf 12page full color booklet at www.meatpiemusic.com and also from the album distributer WJO at www.salamandersound.com ............................................................ ............................................................ .Currently she is also a part of the team at Resonance Array, a business owned and operated by partner, Scott Lloyd Shelly, and specializes in scores for Film and TV, advertising, Jingles, (recent jingles include - Motor Finance Wizard, Noosa Sanctuary Resort, Ceilite,) all currently being aired on television and radio. To have a listen and look, go to www.scottlloydshelly.com then go to the "Jingles" section. Brenda-Lee was also featured in a McDonalds campaign, where she performed the entire advertisement solo (singing the new Big Mac chant). The commercial aired Nationally. Please check out her website at www.brendaleeheathcote.com I AM ALSO AN ARTIST (THE PAINTING TYPE) PLEASE CHECK OUT SOME OF MY PRODUCTS FOR SALE AT "ZAZZLE"..
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