Darci Lynne wins award for Oklahoma-made music video for her debut single 'Push Our Luck'
Add award-winning music video writer, executive producer and star to multitalented Oklahoman Darci Lynne's list of accolades.
The Oklahoma City singer-songwriter, ventriloquist and actress' music video for her debut single "Push Our Luck" won best music video for March from the Los Angeles Film Awards.
A monthly competition for filmmakers and screenwriters worldwide, the mission of the Los Angeles Film Awards is to promote films and provide a step up in filmmakers' careers.
Directed by and produced by Reagan Elkins of Chickasha-based Intellego Media, the video was filmed in Chickasha and Oklahoma City. Like the lyrics to "Push Our Luck," the music video depicts Darci Lynne, 19, as a teenager on a date who gets so caught in dining, dancing and flirting with her cute beau that she loses track of time, breaks curfew and readies to face her parents' wrath.
On social media, Darci Lynne declared winning the L.A. Film Award for the video "INSANE."
"Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen and thank you to all for appreciating this project," she posted on Facebook.
Along with the 2017 "America's Got Talent" champion, the "Push Our Luck" video co-stars fellow Oklahoma performers Martin Kamm, Glenda Gladden Taylor and Devin Derrick as the protagonist's boyfriend, mom and dad.
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Who did Darci Lynne write her debut single 'Push Our Luck' with?
Darci Lynne — whose full name is Darci Lynne Farmer — recorded her sassy country rock single at Yackland Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and released it in February to coincide with her run on the "AGT" spin-off "America's Got Talent: Fantasy League."
The 2023 Deer Creek High School graduate, who was a shy 12-year-old when she won "America's Got Talent," told The Oklahoman in a recent Zoom interview that she is pursuing a music career full time.
"I started writing (songs) in quarantine, so I've been writing for pretty much four years. So, I think it was just a matter of when do you want to come out and be like, 'Hey, I also do this, and I can hold my own as a solo artist, too.' And, I thought, why not go back to where it all started, which was 'America's Got Talent.' They paved the way for me as a ventriloquist, and it's been incredible. And I'm not throwing that away or closing the door on it at all. But now I'm just opening another door, another pathway," Darci Lynne said.
Darci Lynne wrote "Push Our Luck" with fellow Oklahomans Maggie McClure and Shane Henry, the husband-and-wife duo known as The Imaginaries. Henry appears as the guitarist in Darci Lynne's backing band in the music video, while McClure co-produced and worked as the band coordinator on the mini-movie.
The "AGT" champ first collaborated with the fellow Sooner State performers while making the inspirational movie "A Cowgirl's Song," which filmed in and around Chickasha in 2021 and is now streaming on Netflix.
Darci Lynne played a supporting role in "A Cowgirl's Song," which became her feature film debut when it bowed in theaters and digitally in spring 2022, and she penned and recorded with The Imaginaries the original song "Just Breathe" for the coming-of-age story's soundtrack.
What part did Darci Lynne play in the long-awaited movie 'Reagan?'
Movie fans also can look for the OKC teen when the long-awaited Ronald Reagan biopic "Reagan," filmed primarily in Guthrie in fall 2020 and summer 2021, opens Aug. 30 in cinemas nationwide.
The biographical drama stars Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight and Penelope Ann Miller, and Darci Lynne made her first foray into film playing a damsel in distress rescued by the future president (portrayed as a young man by David Henrie), who earned an impressive record as a teenage lifeguard growing up in Dixon, Illinois.
Darci Lynne also will headline OKC radio station 93.3 Jake FM's New Face Showcase concert May 2 at Norman's Riverwind Casino. For more information, go to https://jakefm.com/jakes-new-face-showcase.
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