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Making a Scene Talks with Indie Singer/Songwriter Mikalyn Hay!

Mikalyn is a unique artist, old soul and world weary and yet so young and fresh. She comes at every song with a deep sense of herself as an artist with an alternative view of what is cool and classic in the same breath. Her haunting voice and melodies and harmonies are instinctive and Mikalyn operates at a speed and capacity at a level much beyond her young age.  Mikalyn combines this natural ability with relentless learning and is constantly seeking to collaborate and study from the best.  Already a seasoned performer, she spends weekend jamming at open mics accompanying herself on the keys doing originals and covers ranging from Radiohead  to Cohen.  In 2017 Mikalyn released 16 original songs that have garnered critical acclaim in songwriting contests around the world and have been played to audiences around the world in Indie stations.

• Winner of the Indie International Songwriting Contest – Summer 2016 for Anyway

• Winner of Alice Sloan Scholarship – Kiwanis Festival – Original Song

• Finalist in the Indie Category of 2017 UK Songwriting Competition

• Finalist in the Teen Category of 2017 UK Songwriting Compettion with Gone and Fall in Love Again

• Finalist for Teen Category in the Toronto Indie Awards Competition

• Finalist in the Your Song Out Loud Competition – Gone

• Second place in Canadian Songwriting Competition, 2016 Pop Category for Save Yourself

• Runner up in the UK Songwriting 2016 Contest for Save Yourself

• Finalist in the ISC 2015 Song writing Contest (Teen Category)

• 3rd and 2nd Place in the Indie International Songwriting Contest (Summer 2015, 2016)

• Scholarship to attend the 2016 Song Studio Songwriting Camp (Toronto in July)

• 1st place Guelph Kiwanis Festival  2016

• 2 FACTOR Grants to record original song written with Murray Daigle (released Apr 29th on iTunes) called Save Yourself

• My Cover of Melanie Martinez’s Dollhouse is at 150,000 plays on SoundCloud and counting

• Selected to opening  for Tyler Shaw and Virginia to Vegas at the Liv, Love & Lyrics Event, Nov 2015, 16

• Guelph Mercury 40 under 40

• Winner of the TalentWatch Tabletop Records Competition 2016

• Top Ranked on ReverbNation Charts in Indie in the World