I See The Light

Denise Labrie is a GRAMMY® award nominated songwriter with over 30 song releases. More than eleven of her song releases co written with Joe Sample feature Joe Sample, Ray Parker Jr and CJ Chenier on the CD Creole Joe Band for PRA/Bad Dog and Victor Entertainment (Japan) record labels (2012). She has a song release co written with Joe Sample and Marita Phillips (UK) by Ida Sands on the CD The Gospel Truth for ACT Music record label (Germany 2011). Three songs co written with CJ Chenier are included on The Desperate KIngdom of Love CD for World Village Harmonia Mundi record label that received a Coups de Coeur (Blows of Heart) Blues Category Award from l'Académie Charles Cros (France November 2006). A song that she co wrote with CJ Chenier "Ridin' with Uncle Cleveland" from the CD Can't Sit Down for World Village Harmonia Mundi record label received a GRAMMY® award nomination Best Regional Roots Album (2011) and was selected by Songlines Magazine (a leading world music magazine in the UK) to be included in the Aug/Sept 2012 Issue # 86 of the magazine and covermount sampler CD. About 20,000 copies of the sampler CD were distributed worldwide. She is the author of four books and owns a record label, Creole Poet Records. Several songs that she co wrote with the late Joe Sample from the Creole Joe Band CD were recently featured in a Michael Counts Project immersive theater performance of HOODOO in Berlin, Germany (April/May 2019). Denise has a song credit in a major motion picture movie, "Zydeco Train" by Joe Sample & Denise Labrie. It is the first song in the driving scene in the movie, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, featuring Neil Patrick Harris. The movie was released by New Line Cinema in 2008. A song that she co-wrote with the late Vic Holdroyd (British Country Music Award nominee) "Party Down in Redneck Town" was featured in a music video that appeared on The Phil Mack Country TV show in the UK in 2013. She also co authored with Vic Holdroyd, "Bayou Song," which was selected as the Euro Masters Country Music 2013 Theme Song and featured on German TV in five (5) languages. "Bayou Song" was also the theme song for several 2014 music festivals in Europe: Westerwald Country Festival, Country Music Messe in Bergheim, and the Highway Women & Awesome Cowboys Show. Her first Music Video Director production is the release of the music video, Juke Joint Money in 2017. The music video is being featured in rotation on Nancy Web-TV (Claude Fourcaulx in France) and on The Southern Soul Video Network (USA). Her second Music Video Director production is the release of the music video, I See The Light in 2019.