Ralph van Manen

Ralph began his career in 1993 as a solo artist and, in the years that followed, he has released many live & studio albums, recorded both in the Netherlands & USA, and performed by Dutch, American and British musicians. In 1999, when Ralph co-wrote with Henk Pool, ‘Testify to Love’, he not only created a mega hit for himself at home & abroad – but, also in the U.S.A., where the world famous group, Avalon, recorded the song, once more scoring a mega hit & achieving platinum status for their album! The song was also used as the soundtrack for the popular American TV series, “Touched by an Angel”, and once again the album reached platinum status. Ralph received a Dove Award for this song in Nashville (‘Song of the Year’). From that moment on, Ralph’s popularity rapidly grew overseas, and he is a much sought after songwriter in the USA & beyond.

Ralph co-writes regularly with UK lyricist Bruce R. F. Smith, with whom he has co-written many outstanding songs & hits, including the single’ ‘Facing a Miracle’ recorded by Taylor Dane (USA). Ralph has written songs for such international artists as: Cliff Richard (UK) , Pete Orta (UK), Jacky Valesquez (USA), Wynona Judd (USA), Romanz (South Africa ), Aström Nina (FIN), as well as established Dutch artists like Danny de Munck, Willeke Alberti & the popular group,‘LA The Voices’, who released a Dutch version of ‘Testify to Love’. In 2011, Ralph signed a contract with South Korea for distribution of his music there.

Greig Watts

Greig Watts is one third of the Uk based Writing, production and publishing team DWB.

Greig’s main writing role is lyrics as well as melody and he also heads up the Publishing department which means he has an A & R’s ears This role involves managing many other writers (who between them have been involved in over 60 Million sales). Over the past few years, Greig has hosted many successful song writing camps, for Asia, Eurovision and was part of the team putting together the 1^st Midem camp.

The success of these camps and songs coming from them has lead to Greig becoming an expert in the particular areas of Asia and Eurovision, and he has subsequently been a conference speaker, panellist or Moderator at RASIA.com (Moscow), GMA (Taiwan), ADE (Amsterdam), Sound City (Liverpool) and more.

After overseeing 11 Eurovision entries in 7 years, as well as approximately 30 National finalists during that period, Greig was appointed the Music Consultant for Eurovision for the BBC for 2019, with Michael Rice and “Bigger Than Us’ being picked to represent the UK in Israel. In 2021 he is one of the team behind Destiny and Malta’s, “Je Me Casse”.

Bruce R.F. Smith

British born, Dutch based lyricist is a multi-platinum selling, award winning songwriter, who has written for such international stars as Taylor Dayne (U.S.A.) & Madeline Bell (U.S.A.), Alvin Stardust (UK), Moya Brennan of Clannad (UK & Ireland), FUDANJUKU (#1 Japan, 2015), ARASHI (#1 Japan, 2012), KAT-TUN (#1 Japan, 2011), V6 (#1Japan, 2010), WITHIN TEMPTATION (Netherlands)

Bruce has had many songs performed on national TV in the Dutch National Song Festival finals for Eurovision.

2004: Two songs in the NSF finals: “On a Wing & a Prayer” & “Mississippi Miss”.

2005: A record year with 7 songs in the NSF  – one: “MY IMPOSSIBLE DREAM”, represented the Netherlands with GLENNIS GRACE at Eurovision in Kiev, Ukraine, 2005.

Songs in the semi-finals of Poland (2006), Belarus (2010) & Rumania (2013)

2010: Bruce scored a #1 hit in Holland with: “Angel of The Night”/”Engel van mijn hart”, performed by GERARD JOLING.

2010: Bruce was awarded the coveted Dutch ‘Buma Golden Harp Award’ for “Best Song of 2009”.

Bruce has co-written all of the lyrics to the album songs of German Dark Synth Pop star, MONICA JEFFRIES”: “BACK TO EDEN” 2013,”OLD DEMONS” 2014, “IN CIRCLES” 2015, “INTO TEMPTATION” 2016, currently working on MONICA JEFFRIES’ new album.

2018 Bruce’s co-write, “DANGER!”, is released by Belgian duo, ROOFTOP RENEGADES”, charting in the Top Ten internationally.

2018 co-write with EDWIN SCHIMSCHEIMER : “IT COULD HAPPEN TONIGHT” by ESTHER VAN KOMMER, was released in November.

2018 December saw the single release of “FLY ME THRU THRU THE YEARS”, performed by PETER DOUGLAS, the Dutch Frank Sinatra.

2018 December saw the release of “JUST LOVE”, co-written with Peter Douglas & Johnny Rosenberg. The song will also feature in the movie of the same name.

2018 Bruce had three holds with K-POP mega stars:KAT-TUN.

In 2018 Bruce’s co-write: “STAR CROSSED LOVERS” was released on the solo album, “INDIGO”, of SHARON VAN DEN ADEL, lead singer from the international group: “WITHIN TEMPTATION”.

2019 Swiss singing star, SCILLA HESS, released Bruce’s co-write: “DANCING WITH A DEMON”

2019 Dutch singer Davina released his co-write: “TIC-TAC”.

2020 Dutch/Latvian singer, ANNNA,released his co-write: “SILVER SPOONS”

2020 German artist, MASON BLU, will release his co-write: “DYNAMITE”

2021 RALPH VAN MANEN co-wrote with Bruce the John Denver tribute song: “A SOUL FOR ALL SEASONS” to be released later this year.

2022. Bruce’s co-write: “GO ALL IN”, is selected as the official Lillehammer Winterpride song for 2023.

2023 Bruce will be co-writing new material with platinum selling songwriter/artist: Ralph van Manen.

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