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A lyricist is someone who writes words that are put to music. Lyricists include both people who wrote lyrics specifically for a piece of music (often in collaboration with a composer, or for a piece they themselves have composed, or for a piece of pre-existing music) and for people who wrote poetry...
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| x Hank Williams |
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Jambalaya |
Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953), born Hiram King Williams, was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most important country music artists of all time. Williams recorded 35 singles (five released...
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| Jambalaya (On the Bayou) | |||
| You Win Again | |||
| x Pierce Willians |
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O impossível | |
| Vera prima | |||
| A amargura das coisas | |||
| As conversas que tivemos | |||
| Iracema 2 | |||
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| x José Luis Ponciano Bomfim |
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Eva | |
| x Caetano Tola Biasi |
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Iracema 2 | |
| x Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson |
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The Window |
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language.
Tennyson excelled at penning...
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| The Foresters | |||
| Enoch Arden | |||
| Now sleeps the crimson petal | |||
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| x Eugen Balanskat | |||
| x Bob Dylan |
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door |
Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet, and painter, who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal...
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| Mr. Tambourine Man | |||
| The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest | |||
| Highway 61 Revisited | |||
| Don't Think Twice, It's All Right | |||
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| x Matt Mahaffey |
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Borateen |
Matt Mahaffey (born June 9, 1973) is an American multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and recording engineer best known for his band Self.
Matt grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee and was involved with music from a young age. He started writing songs...
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| x François Vincent Ayssav | Yumi, Yumi, Yumi | ||
| x Francis Scott Key |
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The Star-Spangled Banner |
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe...
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| x Peadar Kearney |
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Amhrán na bhFiann |
Peadar Kearney (Irish: Peadar Ó Cearnaígh; 12 December 1883 – 24 November 1942) was an Irish republican and composer of numerous rebel songs. In 1907 he wrote the lyrics to "The Soldier's Song" ("Amhrán na bhFiann"), now the Irish national anthem....
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| x Randy Bachman |
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Takin' Care of Business |
Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman, OC, OM ( /ˈbækmən/; born September 27, 1943, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s–70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s...
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| No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature | |||
| x Ira Gershwin | I Got Rhythm |
Ira Gershwin (December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.
With George he wrote more than a dozen...
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| Fascinating Rhythm | |||
| The Man I Love | |||
| Embraceable You | |||
| Long Ago | |||
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| x Sam Bush |
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Sam Bush (born April 13, 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.
Sam Bush was exposed to country and bluegrass music at an early age through his father Charlie's...
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| x Ingrid Reuterskiöld | Jag såg mamma kyssa Tomten | ||
| x Don Carlos |
Don Carlos a.k.a. Don McCarlos (born Ervin Spencer, 29 June 1952) is a Jamaican reggae singer and composer.
He was born and raised in Western Kingston, Jamaica in a very deprived district known as Waterhouse out of which came many talented reggae...
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| x Arnolds Lūsis | Tu mazā, klusā Betlēme | ||
| x Iakovos Kambanelis |
Iakovos Kambanelis (or Kampanellis) (Greek: Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης) (December 2, 1922 – March 29, 2011) was a Greek poet, playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, and novelist. Born 2 December 1922 in Hora in the island of Naxos, Kambanelis appears as one...
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| x Jaromír Nohavica |
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Mikymauz (feat. Jaromír Nohavica) |
Jaromír Nohavica or Jarek Nohavica (born 7 June 1953, Ostrava) is a Czech songwriter, lyricist, and poet.
He was born in Ostrava and has played guitar since he was 13. He began studying at the Technical University of Ostrava but eventually left the...
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| x Kaspars Ķinēns | Bums | ||
| x Herman Brood |
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Trippin' Thru' a Midnight Blues |
Hermanus "Herman" Brood (pronounced "Hairmon Broat" /bro:t/; November 5, 1946 – July 11, 2001) was a Dutch musician, painter, actor, poet and media personality. Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s...
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| x Nancy White |
Nancy White is a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose topical songs were a regular feature on CBC Radio from 1976 to 1994 on the public affairs show Sunday Morning. White's most famous songs include Leonard Cohen's Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In,...
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| x Fernando Ribeiro | |||
| x Peter Helms | Roberts Larionovs | ||
| x Rahul Dev Burman | Piya Tu Ab To Aaja |
Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 – 4 January 1994) was an Indian film score composer, who is considered one of the seminal music directors of the Indian film industry. Nicknamed Pancham da, he was the only son of the noted composer Sachin Dev Burman....
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| x Majsai Gábor | |||
| x Greg Porée | |||
| x Philip King |
Philip King (born c. 1950 in Cork, Ireland) is a musician, film maker, and broadcaster. A founding member (vocalist and occasionally harmonica player) of the band Scullion, he is noted for his knowledge of the roots of Irish music and culture and...
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| x Gareth Sager |
Gareth Sager (born 1960, South Wales) is a British guitarist, keyboardist, musician and songwriter, who has played in several British groups.
He moved to Scotland with his family and attended George Watsons College from 1965 till 1970. Sager was a...
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| x Juris Kulakovs | |||
| x Calogero |
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Calogero (born Calogero Joseph Salvatore Maurici on 30 July 1971 in Échirolles, near Grenoble) is a French singer.
By the age of six, Calogero had already taken an interest in music. He quickly learned to play several instruments, including the...
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| x Pēteris Jurciņš | Ievu baltajā miglā | ||
| Reiz dejojām valsi | |||
| Reiz dejojām valsi | |||
| x El General |
El General (born Edgardo Franco) is a Panamanian Reggae artist considered by some to be one of the Fathers of Reggaeton. During the early 1990s, he initiated the Spanish spoken dancehall that would later become reggaeton. Early examples of this were...
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| x Cheri Keaggy |
Cheri Keaggy (born Cheri Anderson August 29, 1968) is a gospel singer and songwriter, with a musical style of Contemporary Christian music. She is now divorced from her high school sweetheart Eddie Keaggy, the nephew of the CCM pioneer artist, Phil...
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| x Jurijs Slosmans | The Midnight Blues | ||
| x George Forrest | Stranger in Paradise | ||
| x Anders Hellgren | |||
| x Robert Kraft | Hide & Seek (Emily's Theme) | ||
| x The Cardboard Lung | |||
| x Genevieve McGuckin | Capers | ||
| x Dagnija Dreika | Tālā uguns | ||
| Karavāna | |||
| Pasaule, pasaulīt (remikss 2005) | |||
| Tava atnākšana | |||
| Ceļinieka mūžs | |||
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| x Tommie Connor |
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Jag såg mamma kyssa Tomten |
(Thomas) Tommie Connor (1904-1993) was a British songwriter, credited with several hit songs over his long career. Most notable among these was "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", which has been recorded by many artists and is among the 25 most...
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| x Epic Mazur |
Epic Mazur (born Bret Mazur on August 31, 1970) is an American vocalist, rapper, and record producer. He is best known as a founder and frontman of Crazy Town.
Bret Mazur grew up in Brooklyn, New York before his parents moved across the country to...
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| x Katja Mikkelsen | Månedans | ||
| x Susan Birkenhead | Nobody Tells Me How | ||
| x Thees Uhlmann | Kamera | ||
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| x Jack Arel & Pierre Dutour | |||
| x Patrick Sugg | |||
| x Sonny & Cher |
Sonny & Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife team Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R&B; backing singers for record producer...
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| x Aivars Neibarts | Sesku dāle | ||
| Ziņģe par bailēm | |||
| Ziņģe par bailēm | |||
| Ziņģe par bailēm | |||
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| x Adam Schlesinger |
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Adam Schlesinger is an American songwriter, composer and record producer. He has been nominated for Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy (3 noms, 1 win), and Golden Globe Awards. He is also a winner of the ASCAP Pop Music Award.
He is the bassist for the bands...
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| x Tuomas Planman | Hollow |
Tuomas Planman is the keyboardist for the Finnish Melodic death metal band Norther; he also played in the black metal band Gramary.
All of the information in this article was found at the Official Norther website and the EndlessWar member...
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| A Fallen Star | |||
| x Akiko Yano |
Akiko Yano (矢野 顕子, Yano Akiko, born February 13, 1955) is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer. She was born as Akiko Suzuki (Suzuki Akiko) in Tokyo and raised in Aomori, Aomori, and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s. Her vocals...
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| x Thomas Miller |
Thomas Miller is a bassist and former member of the progressive metal band Symphony X. On the group's website, Michael Romeo explained why he felt Miller left the band:
Thomas also provided an important role in the song Lady Of The Snow, inspired by...
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| x Molly McGuire |
Molly McGuire is a singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is a multi-instrumentalist, but primarily sings and plays bass when performing live.
Originally from Canada, McGuire was a visual artist before becoming a musician....
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| x Frank Rosolino |
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Frank Rosolino (August 20, 1926 – November 26, 1978) was an American jazz trombonist.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Frank Rosolino studied the guitar with his father from the age of 9. He took up the trombone at age 14 while he was enrolled at Miller...
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