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SongwriterA Songwriter is a person responsible for writing either the lyrics or the music (or both) for a piece of music. This role is typically found in popular music.Properties Songs Composed: expects Song; songs for which this person wrote the music.Lyrics Written: expects Song; songs for...
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| x Oswald von Wolkenstein |
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Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 or 1377, presumably in Castle Schöneck in Kiens – August 2, 1445 in Meran) was a poet, composer and diplomat. In the latter capacity, he traveled through much of Europe, even as far as Georgia (as recounted in "Durch...
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| x Grizel Baillie |
Lady Grizel Baillie (25 December 1665 – 6 December 1746) was a Scottish songwriter.
The eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Hume (or Home) of Polwarth, afterwards earl of Marchmont, Lady Grizel Baillie was born at Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire. When she...
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David A. Gates (born December 11, 1940, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which during the 1970s peaked the music charts with numerous well known songs. The band is now in the...
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| x Jonatha Brooke |
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Jonatha Brooke is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her music is notable for merging elements of folk, rock and pop, often with poignant lyrics and complex harmonies. She has been a consistent performer, writer, and artist since...
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| x Andy Sturmer |
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Andy Sturmer is an American-born musical artist, writer and producer. He was one of the founding members of the band Beatnik Beatch, which lead to the formation of Jellyfish.
Jellyfish released two albums, Bellybutton (1990) and Spilt Milk (1993)....
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| x Akino Arai |
Akino Arai (新居昭乃, Arai Akino) is a Japanese singer, song-writer, and lyricist, best known for her works in anime such as Outlaw Star, Noir, Macross Plus, and many others. She was born on August 21, 1959, in Tokyo.
She has performed with Yoko Kanno,...
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| x Frank Crumit |
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Frank Crumit (sometimes misspelled "Crummit") (September 26, 1889 – September 7, 1943) was a popular American singer and songwriter. Crumit was born in Jackson, Ohio, the son of Frank and Mary Poore Crumit, and he died of a heart attack in New York...
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| x Francesca Gregorini |
Francesca Gregorini (Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna, born in Rome, Italy, August 7, 1968) is an Italian-born singer and songwriter.
Born in Rome, Italy, she is the daughter of former Bond girl Barbara...
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| x Francis Hutcheson |
Francis Hutcheson (c. 1722-1773) was a Scottish songwriter.
He was the author of a number of popular songs, including "As Cohn one evening", "Jolly Bacchus" and "Where Weeping Yews". The son of philosopher Francis Hutcheson, he published some of his...
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| x Celina González |
Celina González Zamora (Jovellanos, Matanzas, 16 March 1929) is a Cuban singer and songwriter of musica campesina, the traditional music of the Cuban countryside. She is best known for co-authoring A Santa Bárbara with her partner Reutilio Domínguez...
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| x Paul Williams |
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Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor.
Williams is responsible for a number of enduring pop hits from the 1970s, including a number of hits for Three Dog Night (including An Old...
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| x Adriano Celentano |
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Adriano Celentano (born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host.
Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck" (the boy of...
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| x Chris Difford |
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Chris Difford (born Christopher Henry Difford, 4 November 1954, Greenwich, London) is a singer, songwriter and record producer.
He has written lyrics for almost 30 years, most notably in partnership with Glenn Tilbrook. The two were primary members...
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| x Abandoned Pools |
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Tommy Walter (born October 30, 1970 in Pasadena, California), is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his Alternative rock band, Abandoned Pools, as well as being the former bassist and one of the founding members of Eels.
Tommy...
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| x Lene Marlin |
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Lene Marlin (born 17 August 1980) is a Norwegian musician. She was born Marlin Pedersen in Tromsø, Norway.
Marlin made her Norwegian debut on 12 October 1998, with the single "Unforgivable Sinner", which proved to be a hit as it reached number one...
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| x Ed Townsend |
Ed Townsend (April 16, 1929 - August 13, 2003) was an African American attorney, songwriter, and producer. He was best known for performing his composition, "For Your Love," a rhythm and blues doo wop classic, and as the co-writer of "Let's Get It...
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| x David Paich |
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David Paich (born David Frank Paich on June 25, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning session musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band...
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| x Stephen Fearing |
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Stephen Fearing (born 1963) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter.
Fearing was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He returned to Canada in 1981 and began pursuing a career in music. In addition to his solo career,...
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| x David Marks |
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David Lee Marks (born August 22, 1948) is a songwriter and musician. He is best known as being a member of The Beach Boys from February 1962 to October 1963, a period of time that established the band as a top-rate American rock group.
Sometimes...
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| x Howard Johnson |
Howard Johnson (June 2, 1887-May 1, 1941) was a song lyricist.
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York.
Songwriter ("I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice...
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| x Darryl Purpose |
Darryl Purpose is an American singer-songwriter folk musician, known for his narrative (often very personal) lyrics and fingerstyle guitar. Before becoming a professional musician, Purpose was a professional blackjack player and was known as one of...
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| x Eduardo di Capua |
Eduardo di Capua (March 12, 1865 - October 3, 1917) was an Italian singer and songwriter.
He was born in Naples, Italy in 1865. Together with the poet Giovanni Capurro, di Capua wrote the song "'O Sole Mio", which has since been recorded by many...
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| x Hubert Gregg |
Hubert Gregg (14 July 1914 - 30 March 2004) was a BBC broadcaster, writer and stage actor, in recent times probably best known for the BBC Radio 2 "oldies" shows A Square Deal and Thanks For The Memory. In an earlier era he had also been a novelist,...
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| x Bertrand Cantat |
Bertrand Lucien Bruno Cantat (born 5 March 1964) is a French singer and songwriter. He is the frontman for the rock band Noir Désir.
Cantat was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. The son of a Navy officer, he spent his childhood in Le Havre. His...
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| x Moe Berg |
Moe Berg (born 1959 at Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer for the rock group The Pursuit of Happiness.
Before forming The Pursuit of Happiness, Berg was in the Edmonton bands Troc '59, The News, Modern...
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| x Rob Benvie |
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Rob Benvie (born Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian rock musician, who has performed with alternative rock acts Thrush Hermit, Camouflage Nights and The Dears.
After the break up of Thrush Hermit, Benvie wrote and produced homemade solo work as...
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| x Gus Edwards |
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Gus Edwards (18 August 1879 – 7 November 1945) was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.
Edwards was born Gus Simon in Hohensalza (Inowrocław), German Empire. When he was...
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| x John K. Samson |
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John Kristjan Samson is a rock musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a singer-songwriter and currently the frontman of the Canadian folk punk band The Weakerthans. He also played bass in the punk band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s....
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| x Harry Ruby |
Harry Ruby (January 27, 1895 in New York City – February 23, 1974 in Woodland Hills, California) was a Jewish American songwriter and screenwriter.
After failing in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player, Ruby toured the...
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| x Amy Ray |
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Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the well-known contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls.
On March 6, 2001, she released her first solo album, Stag, a southern and punk rock album. The Butchies...
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| x Jeremy Taylor |
Jeremy Taylor (born 24 November 1937 in Newbury, Berkshire) is an English folk singer and songwriter who has spent much of his life in South Africa, originally as a teacher of English in southern Johannesburg, but since 1994 has lived in Wales and...
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| x Samm Bennett |
Samm Bennett (b. Birmingham, Alabama, 1957), is an American singer-songwriter and percussionist.
As a singer and songwriter he has released three albums (all on the Knitting Factory label, and for the time being out of print): 1991's Life of Crime",...
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| x Steve Wynn |
Steve Wynn (born February 21, 1960) is a songwriter based in New York (born in California). He led the band the Dream Syndicate from 1981 to 1989 and afterward began a solo career.
Before forming the Dream Syndicate, Wynn played guitar in the Davis,...
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| x Josef Kajetán Tyl |
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Josef Kajetán Tyl (4 February 1808 Kutná Hora – 11 July 1856 Pilsen; Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɔzɛf ˈkajɛtaːn ˈtɪl]) was a significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor. He was a notable figure of the Czech National Revival movement and is best known...
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| x Henrik Lund |
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Henning Jakob Henrik Lund or Intel'eraq (1875–1948) was a Greenlandic lyricist, painter and priest. He wrote the lyrics to "Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit," in the indigenous Greenlandic language, an Eskimo-Aleut language. The song was adopted as the...
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| x Steve Young |
Steve Young (born July 12, 1942) is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for his song "Seven Bridges Road" (on Rock Salt & Nails & Seven Bridges Road). He is a pioneer of the country rock, Americana, and alternative...
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| x Art Bergmann |
Art Bergmann (born on February 8, 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s.
Bergmann began his musical career with an Abbotsford band called the...
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| x Jimmy Kennedy |
Jimmy Kennedy OBE (20 July 1902 – 6 April 1984) was a British songwriter, predominantly a lyricist, putting words to existing music such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer", or co-writing with the composers Michael Carr, Wilhelm Grosz (aka Hugh...
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| x Karen Poole |
Karen Poole (born Karen Ann Poole, 8 January 1971, Chadwell Heath, London, England) is an English songwriter and singer, who gained initial fame with her younger sister, Shelly Poole, as the duo / band, Alisha's Attic.
Along with material composed...
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| x Dave McArtney |
Dave McArtney is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He has a BA in English, majoring in Renaissance poetry . He first came to prominence as a member of the band Hello Sailor. He formed the Pink Flamingos after the demise of Hello Sailor and...
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| x Edie Brickell |
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Edie Arlisa Brickell (born March 10, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter.
Brickell was born in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas. She attended high school at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, and then...
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| x Anna McGarrigle |
Anna McGarrigle, CM (born December 4, 1944, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian folk music singer/songwriter who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister, Kate McGarrigle, until Kate's death in 2010.
She is married to journalist Dane Lanken....
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| x Paul Myers |
Paul Myers (born 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter broadcaster and author.
He was the front man and songwriter for the band The Gravelberrys, who had a Canadian alternative hit with "Wonder Where You Are Tonight",...
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| x Peter Cash |
Peter Cash is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
He was a member of Skydiggers from 1987 to 1996. After leaving that band, he began to write and record music with his brother, singer-songwriter Andrew Cash, which was released as The Cash Brothers.
Peter...
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| x Kim Bingham |
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Kim Bingham is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
She began her career in music as a member of the Montreal, Quebec third wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler. In 1995, Bingham left Me Mom & Morgentaler and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, married...
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| x Andrew Cash |
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Andrew Cash (born 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
Cash began his career in the Toronto punk band L'Étranger, which also included Charlie Angus. When the band broke up in 1986, Cash signed to Island Records as a solo artist...
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| x Gerard Love |
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Gerard Love (born 31 August 1967, Motherwell, Scotland) is the bass player, and one of the three singer-songwriters in the Glasgow based band, Teenage Fanclub.
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| x David Gedge |
David Gedge (born David Lewis Gedge, 23 April 1960 in Bramley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is an English musician and songwriter. He is the main songwriter and vocalist in the bands The Wedding Present, and Cinerama.
He grew up in north...
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| x Hiroki Aikawa |
Aikawa Hiroki (愛川 ヒロキ) is a male Japanese popular music artist and composer. He made his debut with the band remote on 1988. After "remote" broke up, he wrote songs for other artists as well as playing for various artists. Currently, he is also...
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| x Denver Dalley |
Denver Dalley is an accomplished singer-songwriter who got his start in Omaha, Nebraska.
Dalley collaborated with Conor Oberst of the band Bright Eyes in the politically-charged indie rock band Desaparecidos. Dalley was the main songwriter while...
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| x Carolina, Baroness Nairne |
Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne (August 16, 1766–October 26, 1845) was a Scottish songwriter and song collector.
Carolina Oliphant was born in the auld hoose (Engl: old house) of Gask, Perthshire. She was descended from an old family which had...
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| x Cleavant Derricks |
Reverend Cleavant Derricks (May 13, 1910, Chattanooga, Tennessee - 1977) was a pastor and choir director at a number of black Baptist churches.
He studied at Cadek Conservatory of Music in Knoxville, A & I State University and American Baptist...
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| x Thom Hell |
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Thom Hell, (born on March 19, 1976) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. His birth name is Thomas Helland. He has released two EPs and three albums. After using his backing band "The Love Connection" on the two first albums and the following tours, he...
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| x William Hut |
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William Hut, a.k.a. Willy Marhaug, is a singer-songwriter from Bergen, Norway. He was the vocalist of the band Poor Rich Ones.
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| x Billy Klippert |
Billy Klippert is a Canadian rock singer/songwriter who rose to fame via the first series of the Canadian Idol TV talent contest, in which he finished 3rd.
His self-titled debut album on the Orange Record Label reached 36th spot on Canada's top 100...
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| x James Edmeston |
James Edmeston (10 September 1791 – 7 January 1867) was an English architect and surveyor; he was also known as a prolific writer of church hymns.
He was born in Wapping, Middlesex, England. Maternal grandfather was the Reverend Samuel Brewer,...
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| x Martha Wainwright |
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Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle. With her older brother, Rufus...
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| x Boz Boorer |
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Boz Boorer (born Martin James Boorer, 19 May 1962 in Edgware, Middlesex) is a British guitarist and producer most known for his work founding the new wave rockabilly group The Polecats and later for his work as a co-writer, guitarist and musical...
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| x Calogero |
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Calogero (born Calogero Joseph Salvatore Maurici on July 30, 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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