Wayne Kirkpatrick

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Wayne Kirkpatrick is an American singer/songwriter and musician from Nashville, Tennessee.

Kirkpatrick has spent most of his career in the background, playing keyboards or writing songs for other artists. His songs have been recorded by Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, Babyface, Amy Grant, Joe Cocker, Martina McBride, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Ashton, Michael W. Smith, Jill Phillips, Michael Crawford, Peter Frampton and Eric Clapton, whose version of Kirkpatrick's "Change the World" won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.

In 2000, Kirkpatrick released a solo project entitled The Maple Room that included "Wrapped Up in You", a song that would later become a hit for Garth Brooks, and "My Armageddon", which was originally slated for Brooks' ill-fated Garth Brooks In ... The Life of Chris Gaines project. Kirkpatrick served as a primary songwriter on that album, along with Gordon Kennedy and Tommy Sims. Despite poor sales, that CD generated two hits, "Lost in You" and "It Don't Matter to the Sun".

Later in 2000, he teamed up with Kennedy and several other songwriters (Phil Madeira and Billy Sprague) to record Coming From Somewhere Else, which was a CD of their own music that had previously been recorded by other artists, including "Change Your World".