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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...
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Songwriter
A 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 which this person wrote the lyrics. less
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| Oswald von Wolkenstein |
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Oswald von Wolkenstein (born 1376 or 1377 probably on Schöneck Castle in Pustertal / South Tyrol; died August 2 1445 in Merano) was a poet, a composer and a diplomat. In the latter capacity, he travelled through all of Europe, even to Georgia, and was inducted into the Order of the Dragon.
He is one of the most important composers of the early German Renaissance, and his melodies are of high quality. There are three main topics of his work: travel, God and brothel.
Oswald's poems are...
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| Grizel Baillie | Topic |
Lady Grizel Baillie (December 25, 1665–December 6, 1746), was a Scottish song-writer.
The eldest daughter of Sir Patrick Hume (or Home) of Polwarth, afterwards earl of Marchmont, she was born at Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire. When she was twelve years old she carried letters from her father to the Scottish patriot, Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, who was then in prison. Home's friendship for Baillie made him a suspected man, and the king's troops occupied Redbraes Castle. He remained in hiding...
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| David Gates | Topic |
David Gates (born December 11 1940, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread.
Gates is the son of a band director and a piano teacher, and has been around music since he was young. He was proficient in piano, bass and guitar by the time he enrolled in Tulsa, Oklahoma's Will Rogers High School. As a teenager, Gates joined local bands around Tulsa. In 1957, his high school band backed Chuck Berry during a concert.
Later, Gates...
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| Jonatha Brooke |
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Jonatha Brooke is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. She began her career in the 1980s as one half of the folk duo The Story, and began her solo career in 1994. Her music merges elements of folk, rock and pop, often with poignant lyrics and complex harmonies.
Brooke formed The Story in the early 1980s along with a friend and classmate at Amherst College, Jennifer Kimball. Despite playing locally on a regular basis during their college career, the duo never issued any demos...
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| Andy Sturmer |
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Andy Sturmer is an American-born musical artist, writer and producer. He was a member of the band Jellyfish from 1990-1994. Prior to that, he was a member of Beatnik Beatch (1987-88).
Jellyfish released two albums, Bellybutton (1990) and Spilt Milk (1993). Sturmer held the rare distinction of being a drummer who regularly sang lead in a rock group, a specialty shared by the likes of Ringo Starr, Levon Helm, Karen Carpenter, Don Henley, Peter Criss, Phil Collins, and Micky Dolenz. He was even...
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| Akino Arai | Songwriter |
is a Japan 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, Luna Sea, ZABADAK, Samply Red, Yayoi Yula, and was once in a group called Marsh-Mallow. Arai debuted in 1986 with the theme song to anime Windaria, .
"Voices" from Macross Plus is possibly Arai's most famous song to date.
Akino grew up in a family full of music lovers and both...
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| Frank Crumit |
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Frank Crumit (sometimes misspelled "Crummit") (September 26, 1889 - September 7, 1943) was a popular United States 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 City at the age of 53.
Attending local schools, Crumit graduated from high school in 1907. After briefly attending an Indiana military academy, he entered Ohio University and later Ohio State. His primary purpose for entering Ohio University...
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| Francesca Gregorini | Topic |
Francesca Gregorini (born Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna 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 Bach and businessman Augusto Gregorini, and the stepdaughter of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. Gregorini graduated from Brown University in 1990, where she had already begun exploring acting and music.
Gregorini is an out lesbian.
She once stated;
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| Francis Hutcheson | Topic |
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 father's work after the latter's death.
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| Celina González | Topic |
Celina González (born 1928) is a Cuban singer and songwriter of musica campesina, traditional music of the Cuban countryside. She is best known for writing "Santa Barbara", one of Celia Cruz's signature songs.
Known as the Cuban Queen of Country Music, Celina Gonzalez was born in Jovellanos, Matanzas, Cuba on 16 March 1929. She met Reutilio Dominguez at the age of sixteen in Santiago de Cuba. He became her singing partner and husband resulting in a collaboration that lasted until Reutilio's...
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| Paul Williams |
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Paul Hamilton Williams (born September 19 1940, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor.
Williams is responsible for a number of enduring pop hits from the 1970s, including "(Just an) Old Fashioned Love Song", a U.S. top-ten hit for the band Three Dog Night in late 1971 which reached #4, and a number of The Carpenters hits, most notably "We've Only Just Begun", which has since become a cover-band standard and de rigueur for weddings throughout North...
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| Adriano Celentano |
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Adriano Celentano (born January 6, 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 song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck"). His parents were from Puglia and had moved North for work.
Before his singing career, in Milan the metropolitan legend remembered Celentano as student-apprendice of Ghigo Agosti (European rock pioneer) during his music show in north Italy about 1955-1956 with the...
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| Chris Difford | Record Producer |
Chris Difford (born 4 November 1954, Greenwich, London) is a singer, songwriter and record producer.
He has written lyrics for almost thirty years, most notably in partnership with Glenn Tilbrook. The two were primary members in Squeeze and Difford & Tilbrook. Some of their best-known song are "Tempted", "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "Black Coffee in Bed", "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction" and "Annie Get Your Gun".
Difford has also written lyrics for music by Jools Holland, Elton...
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| Abandoned Pools | Person |
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 The Eels.
Tommy Walter was born in Pasadena, California in 1970 on October 30th. His father was an airplane pilot, and he grew up in a modest, middle-class household. He began playing bass at a young age, and was formally trained on the french horn in college. He...
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| Lene Marlin |
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Lene Marlin (born August 17, 1980) is a Norwegian musician. She was born Lene Marlin Pedersen in Tromsø, Norway.
Marlin made her Norwegian debut on October 12, 1998, with the single "Unforgivable Sinner", which proved to be a hit as it reached number one and kept that position for eight weeks. It was also the fastest selling single in Norwegian music history, and appeared in the soundtrack of the Norwegian movie Schpaaa. It was followed by her first album, Playing My Game. She won an MTV...
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| Ed Townsend | Topic |
Ed Townsend (April 16, 1929 - August 13, 2003) was an African-American attorney, songwriter, and producer. He was best known for the performances of his composition, "For Your Love," a rhythm and blues doo wop classic, and as the co-writer of Let's Get It On with Marvin Gaye.
Although he was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, his family soon moved to Memphis where his father was called to pastor an African Methodist Episcopal church.
The year Townsend graduated from high school, he was elected...
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| David Paich |
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David Paich (born David Frank Paich on June 25 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a session musician from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, keyboard player, vocalist and main composer of the Los Angeles based rock/pop band '''Toto'''. David is the son of the late jazz composer Marty Paich.
David Paich is one of the most prolific songwriters of the 1980s. He wrote "Rosanna", "99", "Hold the Line", "Georgy Porgy", and most of Toto's hits over the years, including several 1970s hits by pop artists ...
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| Stephen Fearing | Topic |
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, Fearing was one of the founding members of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings in 1996.
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David Lee Marks (born August 22, 1948) is a songwriter and musician.
Sometimes referred to by Beach Boys historians as the "forgotten" Beach Boy, Marks was part of the group's line-up when they signed to Capitol Records in 1962. David Marks played rhythm guitar and sang harmony vocals.
As a child, Marks had lived across the street from the family home of young Brian Wilson in 1956 and began playing music with them. By 1958, David Marks and Brian's younger brother Carl had begun to develop...
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| Howard Johnson | Topic |
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 Cream"), author and lyricist, educated in high school and in private music study. He was a pianist in Boston theatres, and then a staff writer for a New York publishing company. During World War I, he served in the United States Navy. Joining...
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| Darryl Purpose | Topic |
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 card counter, and walked across the USA with The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament.
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| Eduardo di Capua | Songwriter |
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 singers, both classical and popular.
Eduardo di Capua died in 1917 in Milan, Italy.
A portrait of di Capua can be viewed at the German site http://members.chello.at/biografie/wolfgangtschirk/Passione.html
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| Hubert Gregg | Topic |
Hubert Gregg (July 14 1914 - March 30 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, a theatre director and a hit songwriter.
Born in Islington, London, he worked for the BBC since the 1930s, wrote the wartime hit I'm Going To Get Lit Up When The Lights Go On In London in 1943, and on seeing the German Doodlebug flying over London,...
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| Bertrand Cantat | Topic |
Bertrand Cantat (born 5 March 1964) is a French singer and songwriter. He is the frontman for the rock band Noir Désir.
Cantat was born at born in Pau, Aquitaine. In 1997 he married Kristina Rady, with whom he had two children.
At the height of Noir Désir's success in the 1990s, he was one of the most prominent figures of French music. His left-wing political views caused him take position against globalisation, fascism, desertification of urban areas in Bordeaux and the 2003 invasion of Iraq...
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| Moe Berg | Topic |
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 Minds and facecrime.
After working with The Pursuit of Happiness for ten years, Berg released his first solo album, Summer's Over, in 1997. He has also produced a number of records for other artists.
Berg has been published as a writer, releasing...
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| Rob Benvie | Songwriter |
Rob Benvie (born Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian rock musician, who has performed with alternative rock acts Thrush Hermit, Camouflage Nights, The Tennis Injury, The Tim Robbins Experience, Drug Dog and The Dears.
As the guitarist, singer and songwriter in Thrush Hermit, Benvie gained Canadian indie rock notoriety. Thrush Hermit also included Joel Plaskett, Ian McGettigan and Cliff Gibb. Touring extensively through Canada and the United States, Thrush Hermit released two EPs on...
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| 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 seven, his family moved to the United States, ending up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. During the day, he worked in the family cigar store, and in the evenings, he wandered looking for any sort of show business job. He found work as a...
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| 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 indie rock band The Weakerthans. He also played bass in the punk band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s.
Samson is married to Canadian singer-songwriter Christine Fellows.
In 1993, while still a member of Propagandhi, Samson released a fifteen-track solo album on cassette tape, entitled Slips and Tangles. In 1995, six of these songs were featured on a...
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Harry Ruby (October 29 1895 – February 23 1974) was an American songwriter and screenwriter.
Born in New York, Ruby failed in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player. Touring the vaudeville circuit as a pianist with the Bootblack Trio and the Messenger Boys Trio he met his long-time partner Bert Kalmar. Together, Ruby and Kalmar formed a successful songwriting team until the latter's death in 1947, and this partnership is portrayed in the 1950 MGM musical Three Little Words...
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