Vitas, "White castle" and Hellya won the International Songwriting Competition

Among the winners of the International Songwriting Competition entered Russian artists Vitas, "White castle" and Helga Potapov. 30th April The International Songwriting Competition announced the winners at the end of 2011. It was the biggest competition of all these years, the number of (112 countries around the world) and the quality of entries, 16,000 of which were finalists of the contest ISC. Winners were selected by a professional jury, which consisted of celebrities Tom Waits, Jeff Beck, McCoy Tyner, Kelly Clarkson, Janelle Monae, Ozzy Osbourne, Lucinda Williams, Tori Amos, Wynonna, Keane and many others, as well as the president of the record companies, leaders selected the music industry (Universal Republic Records, Mercury Records, Walt Disney Records, Alligator Records, Sony / BMG, Nettwerk Music Group, and many others.) Grand Prix competition ISC the New Zealand singer Kimbra Johnson won with the song Cameo Lover. In the category of INSTRUMENTAL won already decayed Russian fusion duo "Black Jail" (Yury Matveyev and Artyom Yakushenko) implementation 6/8. In the category of music videos on the third place - an old clip Vitas "Opera # 2" in the category of Dance / Electronica in third place -. Song Helga Potapova (Hellya) -. Coco (Spanish Version) This is an experimental dance track. Hellya About listeners first heard at the beginning of 2004, when her song "found" in the "Celestial number 1" tattoo former producer Ivan Shapovalov published. Tattoo producer Boris Renski Hellya was a proposal to invest in their project. However, the project did not work out, and Helga went to rock concerts. During 2006-2008, she worked with a group Hellya Sheza, named the best rock debut on the RAMP Award 2008 was. Hellya is now working on his own project. Among the semi-finalists of the contest held earlier Eugene Gore with a rock band UNITE IT, but in the final he has not taken.