The SiriusXM and CCMA Top of the Country competition is open for voting, and a local musician is in the running.
Brettyn Rose is currently one of the eight semi-finalists in the competition, and she was recently in Toronto recording one of her songs as part of it.
"It has been so cool. I've watched this program for so many years, and to now be an artist in it," Rose explained. "There's so many talented people around here, and to be selected as a semi-finalist was absolutely insane, and it's been a crazy cool experience."
In early March, Rose was in Toronto with her band to record a brand-new song and video for the competition.
"It was, like, one of the coolest days of my life, it was so cool."
Rose's entry is a song called When I Stop Loving You, which was inspired by her partner.
"This song is very special to me. My boyfriend has three autoimmune diseases, and so the last couple of years, one of them was giving him some trouble," Rose says. "He was hospitalized a few times, different procedures we spent a lot of days and nights in the emergency room together. So, I just wanted to write this song as a way to tell him that nothing, not even the world ending, and everything going crazy, could ever get in between us."
All eight of the semi-finalists had recorded new music for the competition and had videos created, which people are now able to vote on to see who is going on to become one of the three finalists.
The videos for this competition were released on April 1, which also marked the beginning of the voting period.
People are able to vote once per day on the SiriusXM website until April 8.
Once the voting is complete, the top three musicians will do a bit of showcasing this summer across Canada, and then the top three will perform at the CCMA's in Kelowna this year.
The winner of the competition will receive $25,000, while the two runners-up will receive $10,0000.
To learn more and to vote, head over to SiriusXM's website.