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A&R interest in the contenders for Song For Europe heightened last week as the four finalists were unveiled via a phone vote on Radio Two. None of the four tracks or artists has yet been signed for record deals, though two parties are expecting to sign deals in the coming week.
No Dream Impossible, performed by 16-year-old Sheffield singer Lindsay Dracass, is understood to have received offers from two labels. "It will be with one of the majors. We have two firm offers of albums deals and will go with the team we feel will do the best job," says Music & Media Partnership's Rick Blaskey, who is managing the project. "We made the track to win a radio contest, now we have to make it look good for the TV contest," he adds.
Dracass has previously featured as the backing singer for Paul Carack, who plays keyboards on No Dream Inpossible. Of the song's co-writers, Russ Ballard is published by Sony/ATV while Chris Winter -- who is currently contributing tracks for the Bob The Builder album along with various TV projects -- is unpublished.
Just Another Rainbow, fronted by 18-year-old singer Lucy Randell, has also ...