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US-Based 2007 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) Awards Grand Prize to Kazakhstan Songwriter For Immediate Release, April 11, 2008 -- The prestigious US-based International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is pleased to announce that Eduard Glumov from Aktobe, Kazakhstan (lyrics by Z. Mulls) is the winner of the Grand Prize in this year’s competition for his song “I’m Not Your Friend.” This is the first time that a Kazakh artist has ever won the highest honor in any major songwriting competition. This prestigious honor is a major achievement for Glumov and throws the spotlight on the Kazakhstan arts community internationally. ISC covers all genres of contemporary music, including rock, jazz, r&b/hip-hop, pop, and much more and is recognized as the pinnacle of excellence in rewarding achievements in songwriting throughout the world. Renowned for its celebrity judges, ISC received over 15,000 songs from amateur and professional songwriters from 100 countries worldwide, confirming ISC's status as the leading global songwriting event. The competition’s judges range from celebrity recording artists to presidents of major record labels, and they collectively select all ISC winners. More than $150,000 in cash and prizes is shared among the 59 winners, including an overall Grand Prize of $25,000 (US) cash, the largest cash Grand Prize of any songwriting competition in the world, and $30,000 in merchandise and services. For a complete list of 2007 ISC winners and to hear the winning songs, go to www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners.htm The song, entered in the Rock category, was written by Glumov with lyrics provided by Z. Mulls of Swarthmore, PA, USA. This collaboration – from Kazakhstan to the USA – from one side of the globe to the other – perfectly reflects ISC’s mission of creating a competition that is inclusive of songwriters worldwide. Glumov, a singer/songwriter, and Z. Mulls, a lyricist, met each other on MusesMuse.com, a songwriting resource website, and their musical collaboration produced the winning song. Candace Avery, the founder and director of ISC, states, “It is amazing the way technology and the Internet allow songwriters from different parts of the world and cultures to collaborate, culminating in international partnerships such as this. I’m very proud that “I’m Not Your Friend” is the ISC Grand Prize winner because it epitomizes the core intention of ISC, to foster songwriting around the world. Eduard Glumov is such a talented songwriter and musician, and we are thrilled to bestow our Grand Prize to a Kazakh songwriter. The judges applauded his song for its creativity and haunting melody.” Glumov, born in a small province town in the Soviet Union, started writing songs very early but became serious about songwriting at the age of 13 when his father was arrested and imprisoned for anti-Soviet activity. Later in the '80s, the era of political turmoil and unrest gave way to Perestroika, enabling Eduard to tour with his rock band. In the '90s, he began a studio career, writing, recording and producing songs and instrumental music for different artists, for theaters, and TV. He plans to release an indie CD in the near future. Z. Mulls professes that writing lyrics is not a profession, but an avocation, stemming from a lifelong love of musical theatre and songwriting in general. He posts his lyrics on various websites, looking for collaborations with artists. He calls himself "a wordsmith in search of a melody." In addition to the Grand Prize winner, many other deserving songwriters also share in the prestige and kudos of winning their respective categories in ISC 2007. With a total of 19 categories and First, Second, and Third Place in each, (along with a list of Honorable Mentions). ISC judges include: Tom Waits; Loretta Lynn; Julian Casablancas (The Strokes); Nelly Furtado; Ray Davies (The Kinks); Kenny Wayne Shepherd; Ornette Coleman; Youssou N'Dour; Sean Paul; Jerry Lee Lewis; "Weird Al" Yankovic; Black Francis (Pixies); Robert Smith (The Cure); Cassandra Wilson; David Cross; Craig Morgan; John Mayall; Joe Satriani; Toby Mac; Michael W. Smith; Chris Hillman (The Byrds); John Scofield; Hinder; Amy Ray (Indigo Girls); Cheech Marin (Cheech & Chong); Darryl McDaniels (Run DMC); Macy Gray; Peter Hook (New Order); Paulina Rubio; Tiesto; Charlie Walk (President, Epic Records); Monte Lipman (President, Universal Records); Mona Scott-Young (President, Violator Records); Cameron Strang (President, New West Records); Steve Lillywhite (Producer - credits include U2, The Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Peter Gabriel, and more); Bruce Iglauer (Founder/President, Alligator Records); Cory Robbins (Founder/President, Robbins Entertainment); Betty Pino (DJ, WAMR Miami, pioneer of Latin radio); Angel Carrasco (President, 605 Discos and Sr. VP A&R, Sony BMG Latin America); Thomas Brooman (Co-Founder/Artistic Director, WOMAD); Dan Storper (President, Putumayo World Music); Nancy Wolpert (VP Home Entertainment and Nick Records, Nickelodeon/BMG); Leib Ostrow (CEO, Music For Little People); and Paul Majors (CEO/Founder Majors Music). 2007 Sponsors include: Electro-Voice, ASCAP, Berklee College Of Music, Cakewalk, Shure, D'Addario, Thayers, Sam Ash, Hear Technologies, Disc Makers, Sonicbids, Musician's Atlas, Sibelius, Karian Studios, OnlineGigs, The Music Business Registry, Mediaguide, ArtistMonitor, Platinum Blue Music Intelligence, Alphabet Arm Design, George Stein, Esq., SongU, Shari's Berries, The Indie Venue Bible, and Taxi. ISC is now accepting entries for 2008. The 2008 competition will include many new judges and a new Music Video category. Visit www.songwritingcompetition.com for more information and an entry form. For a complete list of all ISC winners, please go to: http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners.htm ### Information on ISC and Winners: For more information and photos of winners, please contact Candace Avery at cavery@songwritingcompetition.com. Contact information for Grand Prize winners: Eduard Glumov: eduard_glumov@yahoo.com http://www.eduard-glumov.narod.ru Z. Mulls: z@zmulls.com http://www.zmulls.com

The winners of GREAT AMERICAN SONG CONTEST are finally announced and I've won the first place in Rock category.

 http://www.greatamericansong.com/winners.html

I've just received e-mail telling that my track 'I'm Not Your Friend' has been selected as the first place winner in the rock category of the 9^th annual Great American Song Contest

Contest results will be posted March 28 on the Great American Song Contest website, at: http://www.greatamericansong.com/winners.html

You won't believe but I got another track-winner - ‘Home' is #1 at Broadjam's Country-Rock Top10! It followed ‘I'm Not Your Friend' that was #1 at Rock-Funk for about a month.

Just curious - if anybody ever read this blog stuff...

Eduard

Today my track ‘I'm Not Your Friend' has reached #1 at Rock-Funk Top10! Other tracks of mine - ‘Home' is now #3 at Country-Rock and ‘Bus Stop' holds on #7 at Rock-Classic.

http://www.broadjam.com/topten

I got my fifth track at Broadjam charts tonight. ‘Home' has just reached Country Rock Top10 at #7.

http://www.broadjam.com/links/topten/click.asp?id=181&top10=1027

I'm happy with this fact as I produced this track to prove myself I can manage country too and as those ‘good ol' country folks' appeared to be not welcoming to hear something different from their mainstream stuff. So I got now 5 track at charts out of 5 uploaded. You may be not impressed a lot but you must admit statistics is great.

 Another track of mine - ‘Bus Stop' is now at #5 at Rock Classic and ‘I'm Not Your Friend' climbed up to #2 at Rock Funk.

Just wanted to share with you my next little success. My song ‘Bus Stop' has reached Rock Classic Top10 at Broadjam tonight. http://www.broadjam.com/top10

It's already my fourth track to reach at Broadjam's Top10s. Congrats are welcomed.

Your Russian friend from Kazakh land

Eduard

Being third in DrumCore Contest here at MI7 I've just received my prize - the full version of DrumCore 2.5. Excellent toy I should say! It's almost a perfect instrument for creating ‘live' drum tracks staying in your home studio. If I didn't won it I should buy it instead of paying for those drum sessions! There are not so many sounds maybe but they are really great. I've played some of my old midi drum tracks via DrumCore and got the illusion of booking some great drummer for my tracks - someone like Alan White or Jeff Anthony! The same midi tracks became much more expressive and... Live!

Great thanks to Rodney and Mi7 team!

Hi everybody who's interested! Early June I got my third track at Broadjam Top10. After ‘Banned' (#2 in Rock Classic Top10) and ‘Invisible' (#2 in Blues Rock Top10) I got ‘I'm Not Your Friend' at #5 at Rock Funk Top10. So now I just wanted to say that after a month this track climbed up to #4.

Dear friends,

I just wanted to share with you my first ‘five minutes of glory'. Today my ‘Banned' (I placed it there about a month ago) reached Asia Top 10 at Brodjam.

http://www.broadjam.com/top10

Congratulations are welcomed!

Eduard