A Luxembourg musician has responded to a global call from Celine Dion for musical submissions for her two upcoming albums by producing new track 'Lighthouse'.

Luxembourg-based singer-songwriter Josh Oudendijk was recently informed by a fellow musician of Celine Dion's public plea to musicians around the world to send the 47-year-old Canadian singer their songs which could end up featuring on one of two upcoming albums, one in French expected next year and another in English planned for 2017. Although Josh's friend sent him the news as a joke, no more than a week later Josh had fully composed 'Lighthouse', a catchy melody laced with soft vocals and acoustic guitar and inspired by the artist's recent three-week trip to Iceland.

"It's a beautiful country with lots to see," Josh explained. "The inspiration and subject of the song came from a visit to 'Reykjanesviti', Iceland's oldest lighthouse."

The cogs were sent in motion, and Josh's submission of his home demo of the new song to an important recording studio in Paris, where he had already recorded several tracks, resulted in the singer being invited to the French capital to capture the song professionally with an engineer and producer who had previouslyworked with Johnny Hallyday and Sting.

'Lighthouse' is currently in the hands of the studios, where it will undergo the post-production stage ready to be presented to Celine Dion's management. As the studio has connections with the Canadian artist's management, as well as her record label Warner Records, Josh Oudendijk could be in with a shot at success in the musical competition opened by the five time Grammy Award-winning artist, whose net worth Billboard estimated last year to be at around $630 million.

"They can be songs that let me reach new goals, to progress, to have a good time, to be passionate - because I would very much like to keep moving forward," Celine Dion told French radio station RT in August.

However, although excited about the prospect of submitting his song, Josh is keeping a cool head.

"If Lighthouse is chosen then it would obviously be an incredible experience musically, but even if it's not then I wouldn't be worried," he commented. "I'm proud of having a strong catchy track that I'm sure will do well on its own merits."

To find out more about Josh Oudendijk and his music, visit www.joshoudendijk.com.

 

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