Deborah Lurie

Early in her musical life composer Deborah Lurie discovered she had a condition called synesthesia, whereby the sound of a note causes her to visualize a certain color. She might be able to tell you what note coincides with green, for she is certain to see much more of that color these days – in the form of money. Lurie recently completed her first studio feature film score for the MGM teen comedy/adventure Sleepover, directed by Joe Nussbaum.

Shortly after graduation from the USC School of Music with the composition department award, Deborah scored Nussbaum's award winning short film George Lucas In Love. In the following years, Deborah scored many independent films and composed additional music for Disney's animated series Hercules, Touchstone's Bubble Boy and Miramax's View From the Top and My Baby's Daddy. Recent original film scores include Whirlygirl (directed by Dances With Wolves producer Jim Wilson) and the upcoming Sony Classics film Imaginary Heroes starring Sigourney Weaver and Jeff Daniels, in which she incorporated a theme by X2 composer John Ottman. In addition to film music, Deborah has worked extensively in rock and pop music as an arranger and producer. She has written string arrangements for rock albums including Hoobastank's 2004 chart topper The Reason. She has also produced, arranged, and composed additional music for the live cabaret show The Pussycat Dolls at The Roxy Theater, which featured guest stars Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, and Christina Applegate, among others.

LeAnn Rimes

It's hard to believe that LeAnn Rimes, the superstar who took the country and pop music charts – and the nation – by storm in 1996 at 13 (garnering two Grammy Awards in the process), is now 21 years old. The Mississippi-born and Texas-raised Rimes recently released the international smash, LeAnn Rimes Greatest Hits (Curb), which features two brand new recordings along with sixteen past hits. With her Patsy Cline-like outsized voice, Rimes is classified as country, but it's apparent that she does not wish to be pigeonholed – the 2002 album, Twisted Angel, found LeAnn experimenting with R&B, funk, blues and techno music.

The singer, whose vocal prowess helped power the Coyote Ugly soundtrack to platinum sales, has been collaborating in writing many of her own songs of late, one of which, “Life Goes On,” from Twisted Angel, became a hit.

This fall, Rimes will unleash a musical double whammy on her fans. On November 2nd, she will release a new studio album, This Woman, which will be a very upbeat, inspirational and personal album of new material. She will also release a Christmas album, What a Wonderful World, featuring three original and eight traditional Christmas songs recorded at the legendary Capitol Records Studio (Nat King Cole, The Beatles) with the Brian Setzer Orchestra.