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Diane Warren
OccupationSongwriter
GenrePop, Country, Rock, R&B
Notable worksBest selling songs
Website
http://www.realsongs.com/

Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956 in Van Nuys, California) is an American country and pop music singer-songwriter. As of 2006, her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, four Golden Globe nominations, and seven Grammy Award nominations. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001. Her success in the US has been paralleled in the UK, where she has been rated the thirty-fifth most successful songwriter in singles chart history as well as the third most successful female.[1]

She was the first songwriter in the history of Billboard to have seven hits, all by different artists, on the singles chart at the same time. Warren owns her own publishing company, Realsongs, which gives her control over her compositions. Meanwhile, her songs have been featured in more than 70 films or TV-shows listed on the Internet Movie Database[2].

Career

Warren told NPR's Scott Simon that she got into trouble and ran away as a teen but returned because she missed her cat. "Music saved me," she said. Warren also has said that her own mother asked her to give up her dream of a songwriting career[3] and take a secretarial job. However, her father continued to believe in her and encouraged her. She wrote the song "Because You Loved Me" as a tribute to her father for his encouragement.

Her first hit was "Solitaire", which Laura Branigan took to No. 7 in the US pop charts in 1983.

Most of Warren's songs deal with romantic themes. In spite of that, she has never been married and says she has never been in love and does not enjoy dating.[4] In 2004 (2005 or even 2006 in some countries), she released a compilation album of love songs, titled Diane Warren Presents Love Songs, which includes her most notable love songs, such as "Because You Loved Me" and "Un-Break My Heart". The track listing slightly varies in different countries. In the CD, Trisha Yearwood's version of "How Do I Live" is included, not the pop version by LeAnn Rimes, possibly because Rimes already had a song in the collection, "Can't Fight the Moonlight". Monica's "For You I Will", however, is notably missing from the collection. Recently, Diane has been dubbed "Queen of the Ballad". She was recently in the studio with singer/songwriter Ashanti to help the Grammy Award winning artist with the production of her new album The Declaration, which was released on June 3, 2008. She is also hoping to write songs for Leona Lewis's sophomore album in the next few months.

In 2009 she co-wrote the song for the United Kingdom's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest with Andrew Lloyd Webber. The song is called "It's My Time".[5][6] It achieved 5th place, the best for the UK since 2003.[7]

Selective list of songs by Diane Warren

References

  1. ^ http://britishhitsongwriters.com/
  2. ^ Diane Warren at IMDb Retrieved 4 October 2007.
  3. ^ BMusic Australia
  4. ^ Nerve.com
  5. ^ Sanderson, Elizabeth (2009-01-24). "We wrote the Eurovision song in two hours, says Lloyd Webber". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2009-01-24. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ Klier, Marcus (2009-01-25). "United Kingdom: Song title announced". ESCToday. Retrieved 2009-01-25. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "Norway voted Eurovision winners". 16 May. Retrieved 2009-05-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

  • The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (2007). "ASCAP ACE Search" (HTML). ASCAP. Retrieved 2007-09-01.