Kimbra leads a huge list of Australian & NZ winners in the 2011 ISC!

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Today, the International Songwriting competition unveiled their list of winners for 2011, with New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra taking out the Grand Prize for her song Cameo Lover. The song also won the Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition last year, and is yet another achievement a huge year for Kimbra.

She leads a pack of winners from Australia & New Zealand, including Song Summit 2012 keynote speaker Missy Higgins (first, Folk/Singer-Songwriter), Vanda & Young runner-up Catherine Britt (second, Americana), 2012 APRA Song of the Year Top 20 finalist Emma Louise (second, Pop/Top 20) and Song Summit 2010 Play The Music participant Natasha Duarte (first, Teen).

Australian artists also swept the rock category, with Jebediah, Eskimo Joe and The Living End taking the top three places.

Below is a list of prize winners from Australia and New Zealand. For a full list of winners and honourable mentions, click here.

Grand Prize

Cameo Lover
Kimbra Johnson - Kimbra (Auckland, New Zealand)

AAA

Celia
Anna Heiberg Macdonald - Annah Mac (Auckland, New Zealand) 1st Prize

All My Love Is Gone
Dallas Frasca, Jeff Curran, Pete McDonald - Dallas Frasca (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) 3rd Prize

Adult Contemporary

Stay, Please Stay
Alexander Gow, Thomas Savage - Oh Mercy (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) 3rd Prize

Americana

Jimmie Rodgers Was A Vampire
Shane Nicholson (Copacabana, NSW, Australia) 1st Prize

Sweet Emmylou
Catherine Britt, Rory Feek (ASCAP) (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) 2nd Prize

Folk/Singer Songwriter

Where I Stood
Missy Higgins (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) 1st Prize

1000 Sundowns
Emma Louise (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) 3rd Prize

Music Video

Loveless
Johnny Mackay, Heath Crawley - Children Collide (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) 2nd Prize

Performance

Lost
Wes Carr, Don Walker (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 2nd Prize

Pop/Top 30

Jungle
Emma Louise (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) 2nd Prize

Hazy
Jane de Jong (aka Ruby Frost) (Auckland, New Zealand) 3rd Prize

Rock

She's Like A Comet
Kevin Mitchell, Vanessa Thornton, Brett Mitchell, Chris Daymond - Jebediah (Perth, WA, Australia) 1st Prize

Love Is A Drug
Kav Temperley, Stuart MacLeod, Joel Quartermain - Eskimo Joe (Perth, WA, Australia) 2nd Prize

Song For The Lonely
Chris Cheney - The Living End (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) 3rd Prize

Teen

Leave You Again
Natasha Duarte (Glenmore Park, NSW, Australia) 1st Prize

World

Lovely World
Opetaia Foai - Te Vaka (Auckland, New Zealand) 2nd Prize

Unsigned Only

Are You Alive
Michael Paynter, Gary Clark, David Mead (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) 1st Prize