Feautured Songbay Artist: Emma Chute This week we take a look at the work of Emma Chute, a talented lyricist who has recently licensed her first lyric at Songbay “How did you get in to songwriting?” I think I have always been writing something. As a child,  I would write short stories and I read poetry from a young age. The words of Kahil Gibran  touched me. At school, we were asked to to make Poetry Anthologies. I won the prize for best Continue

  Featured Songbay Artist: Alastair Creyke (No false Promise) “I have been a frustrated performer most of my life, but with no real musical ability apart from singing whenever I could and writing lyrics on any available scrap of paper, post it or beer mat I could find. I can’t read music, but taught myself to play guitar in the 90’s and started writing music to go with my lyrics. The words arrive and I just feel they need to go somewhere, a Continue

Songbay Review “We joined Songbay in March 2017 as completely unknown songwriters. We have already licensed two of our songs, and have had multiple collaboration and songwriting offers! Always willing to help, going above and beyond to answer our questions, the Songbayteam has been of great help to us on this daunting journey into the music industry. We would highly recommend Songbay to anyone who creates music! It has opened up a whole new world to us. – Jennie and Continue

Feautured Songbay Artist: Leigh Malin This week we pose a few questions to Songbay artist Leigh Malin – a brilliant songwriter, new to Songbay  but already enjoying some serious successes with selling and collaborating. “How did you get into Songwriting”? “I started off playing trumpet at school when I was eight years old. My dad talked me into taking up saxophone at ten & I did five years of lessons with a peripatetic teacher. I wasn’t overly interested in the lessons, Continue

Feautured Songbay Artist: Mark Downey This week we feature the work of Songbay artist Mark Downey,  an extremely  talented  lyricist and  poet with a large selection of lyrics available for purchase at Songbay.  Mark’s recent works focus on the ‘individual perspective’- ‘Everyday’ people dealing with ‘everyday’ life. In his own words: ” I’ve gone through a number of artistic formats over the years, from play-writing to poetry through most memorably for a few months, pottery. But writing, putting ideas into words, creating images and Continue

Feautured Songbay Artist Kristy C  Mason This week we feature the work of Kristy C Mason, a gifted lyricist with a large selection of her work available for purchase at Songbay In her own words: “Writing has come to me naturally. I started out at a young age. With writing children story books and poetry. Writing is something I enjoy. It is relaxing, fun and entertaining. There are times I laugh at what I am writing, cry or completely happy. There Continue

Feautured Songbay Artist Rachel M Starr   This week we interview Rachel Star. Although relatively new to the art of lyric writing, she is already a popular artist on Songbay and clearly very talented. How did you get in to songwriting? “I started writing lyrics about six months ago as a creative outlet. I was going through a really tough time after my Mum passed away and needed to channel my energy into something positive. Now that I’ve started I couldn’t stop if I wanted Continue