Riptide Music Group, a “sync-flavored” global publishing administration company with services that include the worldwide synchronization of music for advertising, movie trailers, television, film and videogames, has announced that its artist Helen Austin is the co-winner of the 2014 John Lennon Songwriting Contest’s “Song of the Year.”
Austin won the contest along with her colleague Paul Otten for having co-written the song “Colour It.” To watch Austin perform that song, click here.
As “Song of the Year” winners, Austin and Otten won $20,000 in cash, in addition to prizes from SSL, Avid, Mackie and Digital Media Academy. The duo has received other prizes during 2013 after having won last year’s “Lennon Award” and the Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest’s “Children’s” category.
“Colour It” was selected to win this year’s top prize by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest’s Executive Judges, who included Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, Natasha Bedingfield, George Clinton, Prince Royce, Bootsy Collins and Sean Paul.
Earlier this year, Riptide Music Group placed an original song by Helen Austin, entitled “Little Things,” in a national TV commercial for Dawn Soap.
