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For Your Consideration
Meg Pfeiffer & Luca Stricagnoli
Four songs, one album, and one video have been accepted in the following categories:
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Unsent (Album)
- Album Of The Year
- Pop Vocal Album
- Engineered Album, Non-Classic
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Machine (Single, Song)
- Record Of The Year
- Song Of The Year
- Pop Duo/Group Performance
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I Do What I Want
(Song from the album)
- Rock Performance
- Rock Song
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Parking Lot
- Country Duo/Group Performance
- Country Song
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Machine (Acoustic Version)
- Music Video
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Meg Pfeiffer
Fueled by passion and led with intentional expression, Meg Pfeiffer is a multi-award-winning singer/songwriter with a crystalline, bewitching voice that touches from the very first note. She is also a music producer and an awarded director who has brought new levels of genre-defying sounds and pictures to the American entertainment scene. Her music video productions are rendering 200M+ views, and her empowering performances have captivated the hearts of audiences across 26 countries. Renowned on national and international scales, Meg holds a sensational 2M+ stream only on Spotify, built on the foundations of authentic album and EP releases 'Nope,' 'Winter Tales,' and 'Unsent,' ranging from pop, rock to folk.
Watching the attention of A&R managers while on stage, Meg landed the opportunity to sign with Sony Music (Columbia Records). During this time, she recorded hits at the famous Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville and other music studios in Berlin, Germany. The songwriter worked alongside iconic music artists like Dave Roe (Johnny Cash bassist), released an LP under Sony Music, and appeared on national TV shows like Pro7's Popstars as a music guest, ZDF's Fernsehgarten in Germany, and many more. She took part as a finalist in the Eurovision Song Contest, which is the most prestigious music competition in Europe. Shortly before, she signed with Universal Music Publishing to write for other artists while taking over the part of the music producer as well.
Fast forward to today, Meg founded her record label, Muca Label & Publishing, and production company, Naked Studios, alongside her musically acclaimed husband, Luca.
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Luca Stricagnoli
With his music videos having internet views exceeding 200M+ and bookings in every corner of the globe, Luca Stricagnoli is considered one of the most unique guitarists in the world. Luca's creative style, which led him to invent instruments like the Reversed Triple Neck Guitar and the Reversed Slide Neck, vastly contributed to the modern evolution of the acoustic guitar. He has been hailed as a phenomenon and a prodigy by influential magazines and newspapers worldwide, including NME, Guitar World, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and more.
Since the beginning of his music career, Luca started creating his own unique style, which included utilizing violin bows, multiple guitars at once, modified capos, and unusual tunings. His breakthrough came when his arrangement 'The Last Of The Mohicans' was picked up by Candyrat Records, the most influential fingerstyle label, and quickly reached streaming numbers in the millions. He started his YouTube channel swiftly and then amassed hundreds of thousands of followers, winning the YouTube Creator Award.
Luca has played around 100 shows a year, and he has held workshops for universities. Additionally, he played on national TV and at global festivals and was a judge at international guitar competitions. In his career, he had the chance to share the stage with Grammy winners and nominees, including Jim 'Kimo' West, Linda Briceño, Debashish Bhattacharya, and many other immensely talented artists.
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Married
The couple married in 2020 in Italy and relocated to Nashville in 2022 with the intent of furthering their music career, film production, and record label. It has set the pace for a new hit album to become underway for 2024, as well as a debuting documentary about the ventures of indie musicians in the show business, produced and directed by Meg, estimated to be released by the end of 2024.
In 2022, on 11/11, the couple released their first collaboration album, 22-track 'Unsent,' stretching from pop and rock to alternative, folk, and other genres. To create an authentic LP, both artists took over the recording engineer, arranger, producer, and mixer roles. The sound and master engineer, Matt Fischer, finished the production. Featuring artists Nadine Auer, Arnie Lauer, and G-Shadow, they were invited to play along on the couple's debut duo album.
Furthermore, Meg and Luca are also famed for inventing the Guitar Ring, seen in their self-produced music video 'Machine (Acoustic Version),' and have earned numerous accolades as artists. This includes, but is not limited to, winning the Best Folk/Rock Singer and Best Singer/Songwriter at the German Rock and Pop Awards, attaining first place at the European Songwriting Awards, and being announced as the LIT Of The Year 2023. Their singles 'Machine,' 'I Do What I Want' and 'Change The World' from their album 'Unsent' won prizes at the InterContinental Music Awards, Global Music Awards, LIT Talent Awards, and Indie International Songwriter Awards. The singer/songwriter and the fingerstyle solo guitarist earned endorsement deals with Yamaha Music, Lewitt Microphones, D'Addario, Enya Music, and Swiff Audio.
When it comes to their intense history of breaking traditional music chains, vocal ambiance, outstanding fingerstyle techniques, and reputation for accentuating the modern evolutions of songwriting, guitar arrangements, and acoustic music video productions, it is what positioned Meg and Luca to become the inspiring multi-industry icons they are today – making it quite exciting to see what new statement-making drops they will release next to raise the bar even more.
Being artists with philanthropic motives, 100% of the income from all downloads and streams of the 'Unsent' album will be donated to Cancer Research.
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