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MP3 Smudgie - Half of Me Strings (Remix)
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Smudgie (aka "Smudge" or "The Smudge") is a singer-songwriter, and a Ph.D. in economics, who creates quirky, melodic pop/rock/alternative songs. Her family and friends actually do call her "Smudge".
The origin of her unusual name is from her mom, a poet, who looked at Smudge when she was just born and thought that the miracle of sperm and egg had combined to create a little "Smudge of life". From that point on, Smudge was called Smudge. It has stuck and brought her luck.
In 2005, never having written a song in her life, while studying economics in her tiny flat in London, England, Smudgie was exposed to, and inspired by the London music scene to the point where she began writing hundreds of poems, some of which evolved into songs. Her first song "Unintentionally", was written on a rainy night, after a London party.
Upon returning home to Canada, she nervously presented the song to her very experienced producer-arranger-guitar-player brother. Within a short time span, the song was edited, arranged, put to music composed by Pete, and then recorded at her brother''s Attitude Recordz studio in Aurora, a bedroom community of Toronto, Canada''s largest city.
Since then, the majority of Smudgie''s songs have reached the Official Top 20 of https://www.tradebit.com and more recently, Smudgie won "Best Group of 2008" on https://www.tradebit.com of all genres and artists from around the world. Her song "Lost My Destination" reached #1 (and stayed in the Top 40 of https://www.tradebit.com for 3 weeks). "Feel Like This" was remixed by https://www.tradebit.com''s Bluntman and it reached the Official https://www.tradebit.com Top 20, as had her original version. More recently, "A River No One Knows", a ballad about the “unknowness” of death, reached #2. Being on the Official https://www.tradebit.com Charts means that a track has compared favorably with approximately 19,000 other tracks of all genres, from all over the world.
In the summer of 2008, Smudgie was thrilled to learn that "Feel Like This" was chosen for placement in Los Angeles-based Web series "The Odyssey Years".
Though she is still a relatively new artist, Smudgie already has several songs on regular Internet radio rotation. She is also the winner of the ''Best Alternative Rock'' category at the 2008 Ontario Independent Music Awards, the Loopmaster''s 2007 Song Contest Winner, the Orion Winter/Spring 2007 Contest Winner ("Walk Away"), the 2007 Ontario Independent Music Awards ''Best Alternative Song'' nominee ("Unintentionally"), the 2008 ''Best International Artist'' Exposure Music Awards nominee (based on her 1st 9 songs). She is also a Semi-Finalist in the 2008 UK Songwriting Contest.
Smudgie is a 2008 ''Best Video'' Exposure Music Awards nominee ("Feel Like This" video) and in that year that video was selected to be aired on Long Island, New York-based satellite TV, reaching approximately half a million viewers. More recently, it was selected to be aired on a Birmingham, UK-based Internet TV station. Beginning in January, 2009, her songs and her “Feel Like This” video, on YouTube, were selected to be played in independent coffee houses across America starting in Los Angeles.
Smudge was lucky enough to have the first song on her first album "Lost My Destination" evaluated live, in-person by Jim Vallance (songwriter of Bryan Adams''s "Cuts Like a Knife" and other hits). After listening, Jim told Smudgie "You''ve got it" regarding her songwriting/performance. She was thrilled and inspired to keep songwriting.
She is now starting her second album and is very excited to be releasing the first single and video simultaneously called "Half of Me". The video for "Half of Me" was shot in high def at Attitude Recordz studios just north of Toronto, Canada. The strings remix of "Half of Me" has just been released.
Smudgie is now working energetically on a roster of fresh songs for her second album while continually refining her unique sound. She continues to gain more and more international attention via live performance, such as showcasing this spring at the Columbia Arts Team Songwriters Festival in New York, and via the Internet, television, and other media.
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