Yazzy Crowned Future Music’s Songwriting Competition Winner!

Earlier this year Future Music launched a brand new Songwriting Competition to find the best songwriters in the UK and it has found its first winners! Joining a long line of prestigious Future Music competition winners, Yazzy from Westwood Ho, Devon has been crowned the winner of the national Songwriting Competition at Dingwalls in London!

Yazzy, who is 16 years old, was crowned champion in front of a capacity crowd and a prestigious music industry judging panel at the world-renowned music venue Dingwalls in Camden, London on Sunday night. Her original song called “Someone Could Be” won over the judges seeing her being awarded the winner of the Under 18’s age category.

The national Songwriting Competition is brought to you by Future Music - the company behind the discovery of artists such as Lucy Spraggan, Luke Friend and Karen Hardy all of which have had chart success this year, Jacob Banks, Warner Music’s Birdy, Union J’s Jaymi Hensley and Jahmene Douglas, both of which are now signed to Sony Music.

After impressing the judging panel at the auditions, Yazzy went on to perform in the Songwriting Competition live Regional showcase to make it to the national Grand Final.

The judging panel for the Grand Final included record label representatives from Sony and Universal, as well as representatives from music management companies, recording studios and professional songwriters. Also picked by the judging panel as winners were Tom Auton from Cardiff, Wales who was crowned overall winner and Tabitha Jade from Wirral, Merseyside who took home the trophy for the Under 15’s age category winner.

Yazzy has also had previous success in the national music competition Open Mic UK, she was crowned the Under 16’s Winner in 2014. Open Mic UK have auditions this summer across UK, for more information and to enter go to: www.openmicuk.co.uk.