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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 |
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Lady Grisell Baillie (25 December 1665 – 6 December 1746) was a Scottish songwriter.
The eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, afterwards earl of Marchmont, Lady Grisell Baillie was born at Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire. When she was...
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David Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was...
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| x Jonatha Brooke |
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Jonatha Brooke (b. January 23, 1964) is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist from Illinois. Her music merges elements of folk, rock and pop, often with poignant lyrics and complex harmonies. She has been a performer, writer, and...
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| x Andy Sturmer |
Andy Sturmer (born Marvin Andrew Sturmer, 1965) is an American musical artist, writer and producer. He was one of the founding members of the band Beatnik Beatch, which led to the formation of Jellyfish.
Jellyfish released two albums, Bellybutton ...
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| x Akino Arai |
Akino Arai (新居 昭乃, Arai Akino, born August 21, 1959, in Tokyo) 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 has performed with Yoko Kanno, Luna Sea,...
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| x Frank Crumit |
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Frank Crumit (September 26, 1889 – September 7, 1943) was an American singer, composer. radio entertainer and vaudeville star. He shared his radio programs with his wife, Julia Sanderson, and the two were sometimes called "the ideal couple of the...
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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-American singer and songwriter.
Born in Rome, Italy, she is the daughter of former Bond girl...
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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 Catapang 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...
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| x Paul Williams |
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Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning American composer, musician, songwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's ...
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| x Adriano Celentano |
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Adriano Celentano (Italian pronunciation: [adriˈano tʃelenˈtano]; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host.
Celentano is the best-selling artist in Italy with Mina, and the best-selling male...
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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, musician, songwriter, and record producer.
He has written lyrics for over 30 years, most notably in partnership with Glenn Tilbrook. The two were primary...
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| x Abandoned Pools |
Tommy Walter (born October 30, 1970 in Thousand Oaks, 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 Lene Marlin Pedersen, 17 August 1980, Tromsø, Norway) is a Norwegian singer and musician.
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 David Paich |
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David Frank Paich (born June 25, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a multi-disciplined musician, keyboard player, recording producer, arranger, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles-based rock/pop band Toto. With Toto, Paich has released...
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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 an American songwriter and musician. He is best known as being a member of The Beach Boys from February 1962 to October 1963, and of later versions of the band, including a reunited version that will be...
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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.
Songwriter ("I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream"), author and lyricist, Johnson was born in Waterbury,...
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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 in 1865. Together with the poet Giovanni Capurro, di Capua wrote the song "'O Sole Mio", which has since been recorded by many singers,...
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| x Hubert Gregg |
Hubert Gregg (14 July 1914 – 30 March 2004) was a BBC broadcaster, writer and stage actor. At the end of his life he was 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...
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| x Bertrand Cantat |
Bertrand Lucien Bruno Cantat (born 5 March 1964) is a French singer and songwriter. He was 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 Rob Benvie |
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Rob Benvie (born Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician and writer who has performed with alternative rock acts Thrush Hermit, Camouflage Nights, The Tennis Injury, and The Dears. He also records and occasionally performs live as Tigre Benvie....
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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 Amy Ray |
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Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released four albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemon...
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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 multi-instrumentalist.
Samm Bennett is a singer and songwriter, a drummer and percussionist, and a player of string instruments such as the stick dulcimer (sometimes...
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| x Josef Kajetán Tyl |
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Josef Kajetán Tyl (4 February 1808 – 11 July 1856; 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 as the author of...
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| x Steve Young |
Steve Young (born July 12, 1942) is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist, 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 February 8, 1953 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 Mount...
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| x Jimmy Kennedy |
Jimmy Kennedy OBE (20 July 1902 – 6 April 1984) was an Irish 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 widely known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went #4 on the US Albums Chart.
Brickell was born in Oak...
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| x Paul Myers |
Paul Myers (born 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter broadcaster and author.
Paul Myers is a songwriter, musician, journalist and author from Toronto, Canada, currently living and working in the San Francisco area....
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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 1994, 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) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto-area Davenport electoral district. He grew up in Toronto, where he befriended future MP, Charlie Angus, and along with Angus founded the Toronto...
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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 sang a duet with Marine...
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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 Nairne, née Oliphant, Lady Nairne (16 August 1766 - 26 October 1845) was a Scottish songwriter and song collector.
Carolina Oliphant was born in the auld hoose (English: old house) of Gask, Perthshire. She was descended from Clan Oliphant,...
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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 four 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 season of Canadian Idol, in which he finished 3rd.
His self-titled debut album on the Orange Record Label reached 36th spot on Canada's top 100 albums chart in July...
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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. She was raised in a musical...
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| 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 Jake Burns |
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Jake Burns (born John Burns, 21 February 1958, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.
Burns started off his career at school with a rock covers band, Highway Star, which...
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| x Einar Moen |
Einar Moen (born July 4, 1977) is one of the founding members of Norwegian gothic metal band Tristania. He is in charge of synthesizer and programming and he also participates in most of Tristania's music by writing both music and lyrics.
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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 Lynn Strait |
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James Lynn Strait (August 7, 1968 – December 11, 1998) was the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Snot. He died in a car accident on December 11, 1998 at the age of 30.
Strait was born in New York, but moved to Santa Barbara as a teen and...
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| x Sharon Robinson |
Sharon Robinson (born 1958) is an American songwriter, record producer, and vocalist. She is best known as a frequent writing collaborator with Leonard Cohen, although she has written songs for a number of other artists as well, including Aaron...
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| x Carolyn Mark |
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Carolyn Mark is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. She has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the duo The Corn Sisters with American colleague Neko Case, as well as with the bands the Vinaigrettes, Jr. Gone Wild,...
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| x Jagath Wickramasinghe |
Jagath Wickramasinghe (born 1966) is a Sri Lankan musician. His best known songs include "Saagara Tharangaa," "Mage Nango," "Pemvantayin Se," and "Obe Sina Langa." He is currently one of the three judges on Sirasa Superstar.
Wickramasinghe initially...
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| x Michelle McAdorey |
Michelle McAdorey (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
In the early 1980s, McAdorey lived in the UK, where she was briefly a backup singer for Kirsty MacColl. While there, she joined a new wave band called Corect Spelling (sic...
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