IT's the love song the world needs right now – thank you Donna Dyson
Donna Dyson is Queensland's international award-winning composer and songwriter with her titles globally streaming daily on all music platforms. She lives in Brisbane. She has written almost 90 music singles, with 41 going straight to number one. She collaborates with some of the biggest names in the business. She is also legally blind. And she knows a thing or two about LOVE – and LOVE IS WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS RIGHT NOW.
Her new work "EVERY PART OF ME" releases next week under her label Donna Dyson & Friends, penned by long time co-writing partners Donna Dyson and Damien Leith, this extremely moving and powerful love song will mean so much to so many, spanning all ages and relationship of all kinds. Donna also penned the epic Christmas ballad Light Up the Year featured in the 2022 Vision Australia Carols by Candlelight.
Featuring the floatingly beautiful vocal artistry of Brett Anthony Shaw, as well as Damien Leith's creative music production talents, this song is a very special release and is sure to become a classic and a great choice for proposals, weddings, anniversaries, or any moment you need to remind someone how much you love them.
Donna says "This song is so precious to me. Damien and I wrote this song for our spouses. The lyrics are literally a love letter to the ones we love the most".
"Every Part of Me" is globally released through MGM.
Donna is legally blind and a National Ambassador of Vision Australia).
ABOUT DONNA:
Donna Dyson is one of Australian music's greatest shining lights. She lives in Brisbane. She has written almost 90 music singles, with 41 going straight to number one. She is an international award-winning composer and songwriter with her titles streaming daily on music platforms around the world. She collaborates with some of the biggest names in the business. When her music comes on, her fans go absolutely crazy.
She is also legally blind.
"When I lost my sight I gained my vision," she said in 2012 when her sight faded. She's also had six strokes and TIA's. "After the first stroke I realised I couldn't speak straight away, but I could sing, create and compose. It just connected me even more with the people for who I write music."
She is the genius behind the music phenomenon that is Spotty Kites, one of the most popular children's music labels in the country, as well as Donna Dyson & Friends, the label that creates music adults love, and she is a multiple nominee for the AIR (Australian Independent Recording ) AWARDS. She spent the first two plus decades of her life as a teacher, educator, university academic and lecturer and significantly published author. Specialising in pedagogy, literacy, literature and the arts, she has worked with many organisations as both advisor and advocate. In 2012, she was suddenly diagnosed as legally blind, following her totally unexpected medical condition. This was a pivotal point for her – she lost most of her sight, but gained her creative vision, which she now pours into music.
By 2014, Donna started to receive recognition by her song writing peers at the APRA ASA annual awards and by 2016 was named Australian Songwriter of the Year. In 2018, driven by her first love of helping children learn by focusing on music, she was signed to MGM with her children's label Spotty Kites. This resulted in 47 #1iTunes hit single releases, 87 singles, two full albums with a third on the way and three EPs released over the past two plus years. MGM also signed her for two other labels - Donna Dyson & Friends as well as Dyson & Young.
But, life isn't rainbows and lollipops. Remember, Donna is legally blind and because of an inoperable brain tumour, she has had six strokes and expects more to come. Even this doesn't faze her though, and she is currently collaborating and co-writing with her wonderful friends Damien Leith, Tyrone Noonan and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra's Craig Allister Young (the Young of Dyson & Young). Along with producers and engineers Wil Hughes, Garry Smith & Geoff McGahan.
