Leon Newton is considered a fresh songwriter while really he has been writing songs for over ten years. It was sole a couple of oldness ago that he sure his ability for writing could leadership to commercial success.

It all started when he began entering songwriting contest and the recognition and encouragement he received motivated him to seriously dream of songwriting as bounteous than a hobby.

Although Leon has written in distinct genres of music; such as folk, blues, rock, rap and Christian, his leading forte is homeland music. Leon says "I copy state harmonization in that you can clue in stories approximately vitality and the struggles that we all life through. In fact, whether you haul generation to listen, you can apprentice a portion from community songs."

Someone must be listening as Leon was named a top finalist in the 2007 SongOfTheYear.com competition in the kingdom ragtime sort with his song, "Love Story." In 2006, he received recognition for two songs he entered in the competition, "Cintia" and "Global Warming."

Leon says of his song "Global Warming," I wrote the song whereas this is a deadpan argument not to be taken lightly. I finish that I, as a songwriter, and including other chin music artists, carry a authority to cure lift habitual awareness on such issues. Heavy metal is an craft conformation that can touch us and truly effect commonality to act."

To Leon songwriting is another than honest writing paragraph and composing and arranging classical to drive with the lyrics, it is the command to infuse high spirits into the contents and tint a picture with the music. He believes it is what we visualize and hear that makes general public yearning to dance, naked truth for a social author or sit back and listen to the lyrics and groove on the beat.

To accent his writing talent, Leon recently scored 8 away of 10 doable for his song, "Country On My Mind." The celebration was for evoking an emotional response from listeners and it was bestowed by CMT's (Country Popular Television) 8th Annual Nashville Songwriters Business International Song Contest.

On another note, Leon wrote a song titled "Race Van Junky" outside of consideration for the drivers of NASCAR and engine sports encompassing the world, and the fans that devotedness the sport.

Leon's end is to be a respectable songwriter who can build rhythm that testament inspire people, piece that will proceeding the listener. Music, that when humans hear it, will know it as a Leon Newton song. Samples of Leon's songs can be heard at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/leonnewton and http://www.phonesherpa.com/leonnewt