Best Singer-Songwriter

Recent winner in the “Best Singer-Songwriter” category at the 2017 Toronto Independent Music Awards and picking up a 2018 nomination for “Best EP of the Year” at the IMAs in New York, witness Dahlia Fernandes and her extraordinary new alternative indie-pop EP Shift, released under the name DAHLIA. With five effervescent songs, she manages to break your heart and send it soaring in about equal measure. Fernandes’ position as one of the most versatile songwriters on the scene is firmly established via collaborations with ● LOCATION: : Toronto/Trinidad stars including (but not limited to) hip-hop head Rich Kidd ● START DATE: 2006 (Drake, Busta Rhymes, K-os), R&B writer/producer Roy ● CATEGORY : Singer-Songwriter Hamilton III (Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, N'Sync), and ● GENRE: Pop America's Got Talent finalist Stacey Kay. At Shift’s core is Fernandes, a self-taught pianist whose music is instantly accessible yet utterly unclassifiable. ● 918 BATHURST, TORONTO “I have a lot of very old-school influences: Patsy Cline, ● LULA LOUNGE, TORONTO Connie Francis, Paul Simon, Everly Brothers and, more ● OPERA HOUSE, TORONTO recently, Sia, Feist, and Florence Welch.” says the ● THOMPSON TORONTO peripatetic Fernandes, who was born in Mumbai and moved ● TORONTO CITY HALL with her family from Dubai to Toronto in the late 1990s. ● LIVING ARTS CENTRE, MISSISSAUGA ● DANIELS SPECTRUM, TORONTO And while Fernandes is a riveting performer in her own ● MISSISSAUGA CITY HALL right, her status as an in-demand songwriter-for-hire has ● PIANO MAN JAZZ CLUB DELHI beneficial blowback on her own stuff. ● ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, MUMBAI “Collaborations help me become fuller and wider as an ● BLUE FROG, BANGALORE artist because I am able to live these different ● TAPPED MUSIC FESTIVAL, MUMBAI personalities,” she says. “ I wrote a super-pop song that Ana Golja, the singer/actor from Degrassi: Next Class, picked up.” That song, “I Feel So Good,” was featured in the 2016 young adult TV movie Full Out which aired on NBC, Family Channel, Netflix, and others. Other achievements to date include singing an original co-written song for dignitaries attending the Global Change Initiative at Toronto City Hall in 2015. More recently, Fernandes inked a music supervision and licensing deal with Eggplant Collective where she joins a luminous artist roster. DAHLIA is currently promoting her new EP with her single “Dreamlova” and “Back to the Days”. She just completed her India tour in Mumbai, Delhi, Pune and Bangalore and is currently working on her next record. ● Winner, “Best Singer-Songwriter” - 2017 Annual Toronto Independent Music Awards ● Nominee, “SHIFT: Best EP of the Year” - 2018 IMAs New York ● Winner - TLA Songwriting Contest ● 2017 & 2018 - IMSTA Toronto Top 10 Songwriting ● Performance of Canadian National Anthem at International Peace Day at City Hall ● Original song written and performed for Global Change Initiative at Toronto City Hall ● Placement of co-written song with Degrassi Star, Ana Golja and NYC Record Producer Roy Hamilton in the film ‘Full Out’ on NBC, Family Channel and Netflix ● Top 10 ranking in Asian Idol Competition ● Won a spot on Mississauga’s 25 future stars

● Tomorrow Tonight (Single 2012) DAHLIA’s Songwriting Collaborations include

● Between the Lines: EP (2013) writing with:

● I Feel So Good - Ana Golja

● Everybody Learns (Single 2016) ● Rich Kidd (Drake, K-os, Busta Rhymes) ● Roy Hamilton III (Michael Jackson, Britney ● A Place of my Own - Allegra Jordyn Spears, R.Kelly) ● Perfect Touch - Olivia Mannara ● Emmy Award-Winning Steve D'Angelo ● SHIFT: EP (May 2017) ● Omar Martinez (Justin Bieber) ● Wash Away - Jan 24, 2020 ● Nick Name aka Nick Londono ● Degrassi star Ana Golja ● America's Got Talent Finalist - Stacey Kay ● Others:Rye N Wild, Sheldon Holder, Daysun, Nickolai Salcedo, Olivia Mannara, Emma Peckford, Allegra Jordyn, Dylan J. @DAHLIAMUSICNOW Usher and more.

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