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Warwickshire singer s life in lockdown song will raise money for charity
| Updated: 14:40, 08 April 2021
SINGER-songwriter Emma Skipp has launched a song about life under lockdown to raise money for charity.
Singer/sonwriter Emma Skipp with drum and bass producer Justin Smith who plans to a remix of her song âÂÂBack to BeforeâÂÂ. Photo: Mark Williamson F6/3/21/5433. (45657762)
Like many others, Emma has been working from home during the pandemic and noticed the day-to-day suffering of many people in her community of Alcester, which inspired her to write the song.
Back to Before was made with the help and encouragement of Mike Knowles, Emmaâs co-worker at YMCA Worcestershire, as well as fellow musicians Peter Butler and Leon Payne, who produced the soundtrack and video for the song.
Every Eurovision song to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100
Typically you would not put Eurovision and the United States in the same sentence. But more recently there are greater connections forming between with the United States of America and the Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2016 the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast live in the United States for the first time on Logo TV. The 2016 Contest featured US singer Justin Timberlake as a special guest who performed his hits Rock Your Body and Can t Stop the Feeling! . More recently the queen of pop, Madonna, was a guest performer at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.