Toronto Emcee D-Sisive Wins ECHO Songwriting Prize
Posted October 5, 2009 5:47 pm.
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Toronto rapper D-Sisive was awarded the fourth annual ECHO Songwriting Prize Monday.
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada handed the $5000 prize to the emcee – whose real name is Derek Christoff – and co-writer Robert Baker for their song “Nobody With A Notepad” which appears on D-Sisive’s debut full-length Let The Children Die.
The other nominated songs were “Lay Down In the Tall Grass,” written by Taylor Kirk and performed by Timber Timbre, “Love Can Be So Mean” written and performed by Sebastien Grainger, “Through and Through and Through” written and performed by Joel Plaskett and “Some Are Lakes” written by Elizabeth Powell and performed by Land of Talk.
That list was created by a panel of 10 local music critics, while the winner was selected through a month of online voting that concluded Sept. 29.
The Francophone counterpart of the award, Prix de la chanson ECHO, went to Bernard Adamus for his song “La question a 100 piasses.”
For more information visit echoprize.ca.
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