Danielle Egnew

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Danielle Egnew is a musician, actress, vocalist, media personality, psychic, and activist known in the areas of music, film, radio and television for both performing and producing in all four genres. A native of Billings, Montana, Danielle Egnew currently resides in Los Angeles.

Egnew is recognized in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand not only for her contributions in entertainment but for her work in the spiritual and metaphysical fields as a Clairvoyant Channel, assisting law enforcement on cold case profiles as well as consulting for corporate and private clients including Hollywood Studio Heads and Fortune 500 Executives. In 2007 she co-founded the paranormal investigation group, The Western Pacific Paranormal Alliance, launching the paranormal website "Haunted Playground".

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[edit] Music

Egnew is a prolific singer/songwriter/composer (ASCAP) with many songs to her original catalog in the areas of pop, rock, alternative rock, country, industrial, and folk. She has also composed numerous ambient tracks and film scores.

She has served as the frontwoman for several bands including girl band Pope Jane from 1996–present and alternative rock band Junkie Cousin from 2006–present. She has portrayed the character of the keyboard-playing Eastern European block "angel of metal, Ivana Rock" in the theatrical satire 1980's rock extravaganza "Sheena Metal's Beer Bong" from 2007-present. Egnew has also penned country music both on her own and with writers Wayne Lembcke, Paul Houston, and Kristen Coyner, and has written and produced for many other artists. Egnew's vocal ability, vocal style, and marketing contributions to pop and rock music have been the subject of many interviews.

In 2008, Egnew signed a uniquely structured multi-tiered recording contract with Maurice The Fish Records, allowing her to create music in several different genres simultaneously. Her solo album Red Lodge will be the first label release.

As a composer, Danielle Egnew writes film scores and television theme music for a number of broadcast endeavors.

[edit] Film, television and stage

Having earned two full-ride college scholarships in stage performance (University of Arizona [Musical Theater] and Eastern Montana College [Theater]), Egnew went on to be an actor, film producer and screenwriter, having her original screenplay Thunder Walk optioned by Los Angeles production entity Light Renegade Entertainment (2003), and starring as "Peg Franklin" in the Clear Pictures feature film Changing Spots (2006), for which she is also credited as a Producer.

Egnew has made numerous TV appearances both as an actor and as herself, as well as garnering a classical and contemporary theatrical career from 1987 to present.

While at The University of Arizona, Egnew was one of the first featured female members of the sketch comedy group "Comedy Corner", sharing alumni status with other notables such as Saturday Night Live writer Alex Baze.

She has contributed as a repeat bi-coastal cast member of The Vagina Monologues for both the 2007 V-Day WestLA Celebrity Charity Cast, as well as the 2006 V-Day New York Celebrity Charity Cast.

[edit] Radio

Danielle Egnew produces and co-hosts the world-syndicated talk-music hybrid The Music Highway with Sheena Metal, hosted by stand-up comic, radio personality and celebrity journalist Sheena Metal. Egnew also produces and anchors her own syndicated talk radio program The High Road [on hiatus], focusing on spiritual and sociological topics. Egnew composed the musical themes for both The High Road and The Music Highway with Sheena Metal.

[edit] Activism

Egnew is a celebrity advocate for same-sex marriage rights, acting as a celebrity endorser for a number of local and national campaigns including Virginia's VoteNO campaign, providing PSA's and print materials for the endeavor.

In the past, Egnew has worked on a number of campaigns ranging from political candidates to Washington State's "Right To Die" campaign, supporting the legal upholding of living wills in a court of law, as well as working on the campaign to implement Washington State's Universal Health Care System, which is emulated by Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in their individual health care plans.

Danielle Egnew has endorsed New York Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries for the 2008 Presidential Election.

[edit] Awards and affiliations

- Danielle Egnew is a Voting Member of the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences - The Grammys.

- Danielle Egnew earned two-full ride college scholarships, one for Musical Theater from The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona (1987), and one for Theater from Eastern Montana College in Billings, Montana (1989). Egnew attended both educational institutions. Due to the 1994 restructuring in the Montana University System, Eastern Montana College was re-named July 1st, 1995, as Montana State University - Billings.

- She is an inducted member of Theta Alpha Phi, a national honorary Dramatic Fraternity which bestows national honors on both graduate and undergraduate students who distinguish themselves with consistent above-average quality in theatrical study and theatrical production at over 36 hand-selected accredited colleges and universities across 22 states.

- In 2007 Danielle Egnew was a winner of the All Access Music Awards in the category of Best Keyboardist, and was nominated for Best Overall Songwriter and Best Rock Vocalist. In 2006 Egnew won in the category Best Female Guitarist and was also nominated for Best Overall Songwriter and Best Pop Female Vocalist.

- In 2007 Danielle Egnew also won the All Access People's Choice Award for "Sheena Metal's Beer Bong", a musical project that she both produces and particpates in as a musician.

- Prior to her signing in 2008, Danielle Egnew was a repeat selection as one of the Top 100 Unsigned Artists by music trade Music Connection Magazine in 2004, 2005, and 2007.

- Egnew is endorsed by Minarik Guitars and Scoop Straps.

- Danielle Egnew is the only consecutive three-time State Competitive Drama Champion (1985-1987 / Serious Solo, Humorous Solo, Serious Duo) ever to come out of the state of Montana's High School speech, drama and debate program.

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