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AWARDS
2024 FINALIST (Special Category Music) 25th Annual Great American Song Contest: “Christmas Wish”
2022 FINALIST (Pop) Great American Song Contest: “Viva La Vita”
2020 TOP 5 SongwriterUniverse - Best Song of the Month “All My Life”
2019 FINALIST (Holiday) Great American Song Contest: “Let’s Have a Merry Christmas”
2017 WINNER De Beste Singer-Songwriter van het Groene Hart
2015 WINNER Best Pop - San Diego Music Awards
2015 WINNER Best Folk Song - Akademia Music Awards: “Rag Doll”
2014 WINNER Best Pop Album - San Diego Music Awards
2013 WINNER Best Singer-Songwriter - San Diego Music Awards
2009 SECOND PLACE San Diego Songwriting Contest: “Caustic Conversation”
2003 WINNER True American Records Songwriting Contest (owned by Tyrone Wells) : “China”
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Nominations
2012 “Best Acoustic” San Diego Music Awards
2011 “Make Believe,” “Best Pop Album” San Diego Music Awards
2010 “Best Americana” San Diego Music Awards
2009 “Cowley Road,” “Best Pop Album” San Diego Music Awards
2009 “Just For Now” Grammy Ballot* “Best Female Vocal Performance”
2009 “Cowley Road” Grammy Ballot* “Best Pop Album”
2008 “Best Songwriter” San Diego Honoring Acoustic Talent Awards
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Placements
2018 “Little Women” Film: “No Ordinary Life”
2014 HBO’s “Looking” S.1 Ep.2: “Paper Box”
2014-Present As a composer and session musician for a boutique licensing company, Gayle Skidmore has placed songs with Facebook Japan, Facebook Moments, Disney, Target, Honda, Safe Auto and many others, branching out into a wide variety of styles.
2012 “Promised Land” Film: “Zion,” “Make Believe”
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Notable
2014-Present Deering Banjos Artist
2020 Released “All My Life,” a single she co-produced with Jeff Berkley of Berkley Hart, at Jason Mraz’s OhmGrown Studio. “All My Life” features Clare and Olivier Manchon of Clare & The Reasons
2018 Recorded piano album “Hiraethean Echoes” at legendary Wisseloord Studios
2017 “Only Ever You” features Dave Catching of Eagles of Death Metal on guitar
2012-2017 Ninkasi Brewing Sponsored Artist
2016 Recorded parts of “The Golden West” at Rancho De La Luna Studio
2014 Named one of the San Diego Union Tribune's "Faces to Watch"
2013 Featured on Time Warner Cable's SoCal Beat
2010 Released “Annabelle,” a single recorded by acclaimed artist Jason Mraz, and mixed by Ron Fountenberry of The Softlightes
2009 Seuddeutsche Zeitung, named her "Die Schutzpatronin der Gartenzwerge," the Patron Saint of Garden Dwarves
2007 Released “Annabelle,” a single recorded by acclaimed artist Jason Mraz
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Shared the Stage
Jason Mraz, Lisa Loeb, Sean and Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek, Sam Phillips, Grant-Lee Phillips, Coeur d’Pirate, The Jamestown Revival, Jon Foreman, Bushwalla, Gregory Page, Tyrone Wells, Greg Laswell, Kate Voegele, RuthAnn Friedman, Val Emmich