Songwriter
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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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| Oswald von Wolkenstein |
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Oswald von Wolkenstein (born 1376 or 1377, possibly in the Puster (Pusteria) Valley; died August 2 1445 in Merano) was a poet, a composer and a diplomat. In the latter capacity, he traveled, through all of Europe, even to Georgia, and was inducted...
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| Grizel Baillie | Person |
Lady Grizel Baillie (December 25, 1665–December 6, 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...
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| Dom Franco | Person | ||
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| David Gates | Person |
David 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 1970's peaked the music charts with numerous well known songs. The band is now in the Vocal...
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| Jonatha Brooke |
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Jonatha Brooke (born 23 January 1964 in Illinois) 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...
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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...
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| Akino Arai | Musical Artist |
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, Simply Red,...
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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...
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| Francesca Gregorini | Person |
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...
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| Francis Hutcheson | Person |
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...
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| Celina González | Person |
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 Bárbara", one of Celia Cruz's signature songs.
Known as the Cuban Queen of Country...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 Eels.
Tommy...
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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...
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| Ed Townsend | Person |
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...
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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...
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| Stephen Fearing | Person |
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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| David Marks | Person |
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...
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| Howard Johnson | Person |
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...
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| Darryl Purpose | Person |
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...
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| Eduardo di Capua | Musical Artist |
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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| Hubert Gregg | Person |
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,...
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| Bertrand Cantat | Person |
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 in Pau, Aquitaine. In 1997 he married Kristina Rady, with whom he had two children.
At the height of Noir Désir...
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| Moe Berg | Person |
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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| Rob Benvie | Musical Artist |
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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| 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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| 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.
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| Harry Ruby | Person |
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...
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