Singer...Composer...Musician...Writer...
ASA(AUSTRALIAN SONGWRITER ASSOCIATION) 'SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR' 2007'-
MUSICOZ 'APRA SONGWRITERS AWARD' WINNER 2007-
MUSICOZ 'BEST POP ARTIST' NOMINEE 2007-
PARK CITY MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL GOLD PRIZE WINNER 2008 'Yesterday Was A Lie'-My Album 'Between The Noise' is now available right here. Just go to my website
www.simonshapiro.com.au
It is up on itunes as well. CDBaby, Amazon and more.2009 has started on a great note. I am off to L.A for a 2 month tour which includes finishing my album for side project KisTone. John Fiedls(Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brother etc) is mixing two songs and the mastering will be done at Capitol records.I have several shows over there including The House Of Blues and the Cape May singer..songwriter festival, and plan to shoot 2 video clips.
Last year was a cracker. I performed over 30 spots on TV and got to do some big stadium gigs which was great. I won the POP category of the ASA awards for song I wrote with Vanessa Kelly and Lindsay Rimes. Together we also won the award for best live performance.
'City Talks' was heard in cinemas around the U.S on 'Yesterday Was A Lie' which clened up over 20 film festival awards.What a year 2007 was.
'Songwriter of the year' at the esteemed ASA(Australian Songwriters Association) Awards.Winner of the 'APRA(Australian Performers Rights Association) Songwriters Award' at MusicOz.Winner of Pop category in the 'Song Of the Year Contest(Internationally acclaimed) for September.Ok, so there are only a few things I'd like people who stumble accross my page to know.
Firstly that every one of my 'top friends' is someone that i know, someone i've worked with, someone i respect, care about, believe in, etc...You get the idea. These are all good people who are doing their thing, doing it from the heart and doing it well!!Secondly, i'm not trying to grab my fifteen minutes of fame from this crazy biz. i really am just trying to be myself. Expressing myself through these little songs. If someone else happens to get what i'm about that's just great. Even if people completly missunderstand me but hear something in one of my songs that speaks to them, I'm pretty happy.For me it comes down to making a connection. It doesn't have to be the connection I intended to make. I've happily given up expecting particular reactions. I feel like my job is to nurrish my ideas with every ounce of my paternal instinct and then send them out into the world to live their own life.
And songs do have lives. Some are sung by thousands of voices, heard on airwaves, blasted through speakers, performed by many and to many, whilst others are never sung by the masses, seldum heard on a radio or movie soundtrack, rarely if ever performed on a big stage. I don't believe that a famous song is automatically better than a song that is unknown.
Is a famous person a better person than one who is not? I hope you didn't answer yes!
Of course they are not better or worse. Thet just have different stories, different lives. Like songs. They just have different stories and lives.
So i hope my songs have interesting and successful lives. May they be sung and heard and played and loved. i wish the same for other music makers who are doing there own thing with passion, love and integrity.THAT IS THE END OF MY LITTLE SERMUN!!!!!!!!!!So I've been back home, which is Sydney, for over a year, after spending four months in L.A recording with my band Jeapster. I had an amazing time over there and the plan is to return early next year to do more recording and gigging.
Every song on my album is one that was born from genuine inspiration. I made sure to avoid any song that I wrote to be a 'hit', which was where my head was at for way too long.
I had this rather sad obsession with trying to write a 'hit' that didn't yeald any hits, ironically.
So I really do have nothing to lose by finally embracing the real me and just going for it.
The results will be available soon!!!!!A bit about me... I do my own thing, which this site is about. I've been writing songs since I was 8. I don't remember making a decision to be a muso. I just saw someone playing a guitar on TV and knew that I was supposed to do that. I could never understand the lyrics people were singing so I made up my own. That's how I got started.
No matter what else Im doing, somewhere in my mind a new song is playing. I try to tell a story in every song I write. Not that I'm preaching morals to anyone. I'm just describing the world as I see it.
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