Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, songwriter, singer, and painter.
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Born in New York City, Sager graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech. She had already co-written her first pop hit, "A Groovy Kind of Love", with Toni Wine, while still a student at the New York City High School of Music and Art. It was recorded by the British invasion band The Mindbenders, whose version was a worldwide hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard magazine Hot 100. This song was later recorded by Sonny & Cher, Petula Clark, and Phil Collins, whose rendition for the film Buster reached Number one in 1988. She also had a minor career of singing songs as well -- her biggest hit was her 1977 single, You're Moving Out Today.
Sager is also a blogger at the Huffington Post, where she leaves her views and comments about recent happenings in the news.
Sager's first recording as a singer was the 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included the #1 international single "You're Moving Out Today", a song which she co-wrote with Bette Midler. (Paul Buckmaster provided horn and string arrangements for the album.) The album went platinum in Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. It was followed by ...Too in 1978 and a third and last album, co-produced by Burt Bacharach, entitled Sometimes Late at Night (1981), which included a top 30 hit single "Stronger Than Before", later recorded by Dionne Warwick and Chaka Khan.
Many of Sager's early songs were co-written with her former husband, the composer Burt Bacharach. She has also collaborated with Neil Diamond, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Masser, Peter Allen, Melissa Manchester, Sheena Easton, Bruce Roberts, Neil Sedaka, David Foster, Albert Hammond, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Michael McDonald, James Ingram, Donald Fagen, Babyface and Clint Eastwood (for the film True Crime).
Ms. Sager has won an Academy Award (out of six nominations), a Grammy Award (out of nine nominations), and two Golden Globes (out of seven nominations). Ms. Sager was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987. Sager won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1981 for Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do), which was the theme song of the movie Arthur. She shared this Oscar with her co-writers Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, and Christopher Cross.
Sager received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1987 for the song That's What Friends Are For, which she co-wrote with Bacharach. This song was originally written for the movie Night Shift (1982), and it was recorded for this movie by Rod Stewart. This song was also honored for its cover version in 1986 by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Sir Elton John. This one became a number-one hit in Billboard magazine Hot 100 sonces, and it raised millions of dollars for research into the cause and treatment of AIDS.
Ms. Sager is also an artist. She has been painting now for four years-- both abstracts and people. Her first solo art show was in March 2011 at the L.A. Arthouse in Los Angeles. Almost the entire show was sold out, Among her collectors, Elton John, Lynda Resnick, Michael Chow, Margaret Perenchio, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Robert Manoukian, Elaine Wynn, Nigel Lithgoe, and Barbara Walters. She is currently at work on her second show.
Married Andrew Sager in 1970 divorced in 1978. Sager was involved in a romantic relationship with composer Marvin Hamlisch in the late 1970s. She was married to composer and pianist Burt Bacharach between 1982 - 1991. There was one child from this marriage, a son named Cristopher. Sager now lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband Robert A. Daly, former chairman CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and former chairman of Warner Brothers. Daly is currently Chairman (CEO) the American Film Institute as well as an advisor to Brad Grey at Paramount Pictures (Viacom). Sager and Daly co-chair the Los Angeles Advisory Board of DonorsChoose. Two Years ago Sager joined the board of LACMA and has recently created a 3D PSA airing in theatres to raise awareness of LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) The Urban Lights PSA in 3D was recently award a "Telly" June 23 2011 , for best 3D commercial or PSA. The piece was produced by Mob scene and directed by Brian Daly. Sager was executive producer . In May 2006 she was honored at a lunch at NYU's Steinhardt School and later that evening received the Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University. She appeared on the January 24, 2007 episode of American Idol as a judge during the Manhattan auditions. In November 2010 she was honored by the City of Hope for her Songwriting career.
She is also part of the American News site Huffington Post where she uploads views on recent news stories.
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