You might try Kavisha Mazella - She has been a very active song-writer and performer - as well as organising an Italian women's choir. Sadly
Joe Paolacci (who wrote 'the Southern Cross is calling me') died last week. As well as this song he wrote many others, which friends are in the process of collecting - with a view to making them available. He was not only a writer of great songs but a warm, talented and totally enjoyable performer.