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Indie Rocker Sonia Vannest  is Recognized by VH1’s Song of the Year Contest
 

 Independent recording artist Sonia Vannest of Orlando, Florida recently received recognition by the  “Song of the Year Contest”.   Song of the Year is an international songwriting contest supporting VH-1’s Save the Music Foundation. The Song of the Year judges are some of the biggest names in music including many Grammy Award winners. Sonia received the honor of being named one of the top suggested artists to listen to by the Song of the Year ( http://www.songoftheyear.com/ ) songwriting contest.

 Song of the Year is excited to recognize Sonia Vannest for her exceptional songwriting ability for the song “a thing or 2”.   Sonia competed against songwriters from all over the world for this honor. When asked what inspired the song, Sonia commented that “ a thing or 2 is about the kind of love that we should have for each other that’s described in “chapter 13”, but we so often miss the mark in demonstrating -   I wanted to put it in modern day lyrical terms that would be easily embraced by people of any background, not just religious words and phrases that most people who listen to top 40 rock radio wouldn’t get.” 

Currently Sonia is concentrating on her upcoming full CD release “a thing or 2” due out later in 2004.  “a thing or 2” is the first single release off the forthcoming album produced by Chris Shandrow and will include chart bound modern rock songs written by Sonia as well as a few co-writes by Sonia and other artists like Teresa Garcia and Jerome Fontamillas of Switchfoot. 

You can find more information about Sonia Vannest by visiting her website at www.soniav.com