FORMER Launceston singer-songwriter Heloise's story of moving from Tasmania to Melbourne will soon have a Victoria-wide audience.
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Her song, Your City, will be part of an advertising campaign for the Bank of Melbourne, an honour the 20-year-old former Riverside High School and Newstead College student received after winning the Melbourne Music Bank competition earlier this week.
Heloise will also receive two days of recording time at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, a video clip by filmmaker Wilk, live gigs, album artwork, 500 copies of her CD and PR and marketing advice.
The song was written specifically for the competition.
"It is crazy really and I still really am coming to terms with it all," she said yesterday. "I was nervous going in, and felt like vomiting all day, but it was really exciting and it all turned out well on the day.
"That song talks about moving from Melbourne as a stranger, and coming from somewhere much smaller like Tasmania, and all the amazing places that I have found and things I have come across.
It really embodies my feelings about coming to this, for me, foreign place for its creative arts culture."
Heloise, who moved to Melbourne in May last year, hoped winning the competition would help give her further exposure in the Melbourne music scene. She also plays in a band, also called Heloise, with fellow former Launceston musicians Nic Symons, Jared Campbell, Lee Mallinson and Heidi Maguire.