

What an unbelievable experience."Īndrew Waite, Colin MacDonald, Chris Kirby (Andrew Waite) (Charlottetown, PE, Canada)Ĭraig Mcinnes (Club Beirut) (Fife, Scotland) ISC has given me the kind of opportunity and encouragement that I have never had before, and I will be forever grateful. I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined that a song I wrote alone in my car would have had this much impact on my pursuit of my dream of being a songwriter. Notelle said, "There are very few moments that leave you speechless from joy. Her ISC-winning song, “Sufjan Stevens,” is riddled with inventive literary and pop culture references, encompassing unique and unexpected imagery. Notelle's fearless desire to push stylistic boundaries and avoid standard structure perfectly aligns with her compelling vocals and the song’s melody into what Notelle describes as “dark industrial pop.” These outstanding songwriting elements are exactly what resonated so strongly with the ISC judges, resulting in her being awarded this year's overall Grand Prize winner. Now, however, Notelle is exploring her solo artistry and is developing her own version of innovative, genre-breaking music. Then she gathered together the money into this, and was rich all the days of her life.For much of her career, Notelle has been recognized as an EDM featured vocalist and topliner for many of the genre’s most high-profile artists. Collaborating with DJs and producers around the globe, she has accumulated over 41+ million streams, as both a writer and artist. And as she so stood, and had not one single thing left, suddenly some stars from heaven fell down, and they were nothing else but hard smooth pieces of money, and although she had just given her little shirt away, she had a new one which was of the very finest linen. At length she got into a forest and it had already become dark, and there came yet another child, and asked for a little shirt, and the good little girl thought to herself, "It is a dark night and no one sees thee, thou canst very well give thy little shirt away," and took it off, and gave away that also. Then she gave it her own and a little farther on one begged for a frock, and she gave away that also. Then came a child who moaned and said, "My head is so cold, give me something to cover it with." So she took off her hood and gave it to him and when she had walked a little farther, she met another child who had no jacket and was frozen with cold. Then a poor man met her, who said, "Ah, give me something to eat, I am so hungry!" She reached him the whole of her piece of bread, and said, "May God bless it to thy use," and went onwards. And as she was thus forsaken by all the world, she went forth into the open country, trusting in the good God. There was once on a time a little girl whose father and mother were dead, and she was so poor that she no longer had any little room to live in, or bed to sleep in, and at last she had nothing else but the clothes she was wearing and a little bit of bread in her hand which some charitable soul had given her. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
