Austria-born, New York City-based, Classical- and Jazz-trained, Genre-bending Singer/Songwriter, Producer and Electric Violinist ROSWITHA is finally releasing her collaboration with the "UrBaN RocStA" Mark Shine to the public. The song BUILDING BRIDGES brings Roswitha’s personal vision to life. The song was co-written and co-produced by Roswitha and Mark Shine and executive produced by Roswitha and Marvels “Magic” Marvelous in 2010. It was considered as the anthem for the Eurovision Song Contest with its theme “Building Bridges” in 2015, hosted in Roswitha’s home country Austria, after Austrian artist Conchita Wurst won the prestigious competition in 2014. The song brilliantly fuses Roswitha’s formidable classical music background with America’s sizzling pop, rock and soul sounds. Her ingenious pop arrangement is peppered with an accessible lyrical hook that appeals to people all over the world. Building Bridges includes the best musicians on the NYC scene and features Mark Shine’s vocals layered over Roswitha’s lush string arrangements, bringing to life her music and vision. In 2013 Roswitha released the 13-song album DESTINY, on which she tastefully integrates her instrumental virtuosity and distinct vocals within a musical style she described as world soul. Though the album has garnered favorable comparisons to such diverse artists as Sia, Sade, Florence and the Machine, Amy Winehouse, Adele, Tracy Chapman, Stevie Nicks, Les Nubians, Zap Mama and Björk, it‘s purely Roswitha. The album made it into 10 pop categories for a potential Grammy nomination. It’s an elegantly eclectic blend of jazz, classical, R&B, hip-hop, rock and pop that showcases her gorgeous compositions and soulfully angelic vocals. Previously, Roswitha issued under the name “Rose Bartu“ the delightfully exotic Cherchez la Verité, a silky jazz album with violin, sensual vocals, and limber Afro Cuban grooves. Roswitha has notched over 50 production, arrangement, composition and performance credits on over 19 released albums, videos and film soundtracks. Roswitha was reared in a rural Austrian home surrounded by music in the middle of the Alps with her parents and five siblings, only a few miles away from Conchita Wurst’s home town. As a little girl she tinkered with any instrument she could get her hands on, the violin became her preferred, primary instrument and, by age 13, she began performing professionally and nurturing a dream of touring the world with her music and building bridges creating intercultural communication to foster peace.