Smudgie is a Toronto-Canada-based singer-songwriter, and a Ph.D. Candidate in economics who creates real, passionate, melodic Alternative-Pop/Rock songs driven by piercing lyrics.
In 2005, while studying economics in her tiny flat in London, England, Smudgie was exposed to, and inspired by the London music scene to the point where she began writing hundreds of poems, some of which evolved into songs. Her first song 'Unintentionally', was written on a rainy night, after a London party.
Upon returning home to Canada, she recorded that first song at her producer-arranger-guitar-player brother's Attitude Recordz studio in Aurora, a bedroom community of Toronto, Canada's largest city. Smudgie 'the artist' was effectively born at that point.
Since then, the majority of Smudgie's songs have reached the Official Top 20 of mp3u.com. In fact, ''Lost My Destination' reached #1 (and stayed in the Top 40 of Tourdates.com for 3 weeks). 'Feel Like This' was remixed by mp3u.com's Bluntman and it reached the Official mp3u.com Top 20, as had her original version. Being on the Official mp3u.com Charts means that a track has compared favourably with approximately 19,000 other tracks of all genres, from all over the world. In the summer of 2008, Smudgie was thrilled to learn that 'Feel Like This' was chosen for placement in Los Angeles-based Web series 'The Odyssey Years'.
Though she is still a new artist, Smudgie already has several songs on regular Internet radio rotation. She is also the Loopmaster's 2007 Song Contest Winner, the Orion Winter/Spring 2007 Contest Winner ('Walk Away'), the 2007 Ontario Independent Music Awards 'Best Alternative Song' nominee ('Unintentionally'), the 2008 'Best International Artist' Exposure Music Awards nominee (based on her 1st 9 songs), and the 2008 'Best Video' Exposure Music Awards nominee ('Feel Like This' video). She is also a Semi-Finalist in the 2008 UK Songwriting Contest and is also a 2008 Ontario Independent Music Awards nominee.
In 2008, Smudgie’s first music video, ('Feel Like This'), was selected to be aired on Long Island, New York-based satellite TV, reaching approximately half a million viewers. More recently, that video was also selected to be aired on a Birmingham, UK-based Internet TV station.
She is very excited to be releasing her first album, 'Smudgie', in 2008 and she continues to work energetically on a roster of fresh, original songs continually refining her unique sound while gaining more and more positive international attention via live performance, the Internet, television, and other media.
