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Diane Warren at 2009 Pop Conference, Experience Music Project, Seattle. |
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| Born | September 7, 1956 Van Nuys, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Songwriter |
| Genres | Pop, Country, Rock, R&B, Soul |
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www.realsongs.com |
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Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956), is an American songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations,[1] five Golden Globe nominations, including one win,[2] and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win.[3] She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001.[4] Her success in the US has been paralleled in the UK, where she has been rated the third most successful female artist.
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 a publishing company, Realsongs, which gives her control over her compositions. Meanwhile, her songs have been featured in more than 70 films or television shows.
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Warren was born in Van Nuys, California, where she said she felt misunderstood and "alien" as a Jewish kid growing up.[5] She says she was rebellious as a child[5] and told NPR's Scott Simon that she got into trouble and ran away as a teen but returned because she missed her cat. She began writing music when she was 14.[6] "Music saved me", she said. Warren also has said that her mother asked her to give up her dream of a songwriting career [7] 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.[5]
She's actually more like the Emily Dickinson of Pop. As in the case of the great nineteenth-century reclusive New England poet known for her simple yet eloquent verses, Warren leads a life focused almost entirely on her art.—Alanna Nash, Good Housekeeping, 1998, [5]
Warren has never married.[8]
In 1998, her company Realsongs and its international partner, EMI Music Publishing, distributed "A Passion For Music," a six-CD box set that showcased her music. EMI Music's London office assisted in distributing 1,200 copies of the box set primarily to the film and television industry for consideration in soundtracks and other commercial endeavors. It was not marketed to consumers.[9] As of 2011, her music has appeared in the soundtracks over 60 films. She was awarded a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001.
The Diane Warren Foundation, in conjunction with the ASCAP Foundation and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation created a joint initiative, beginning in 2000, called Music in the Schools. The initiative provides sheet music, band arrangements, folios, and method books to each of the schools that are already recipients of musical instruments from the VH1 Save the Music Foundation.[10]
In 2004 she released a compilation album of love songs, titled Diane Warren Presents Love Songs, which includes several of her award-winning hits. She continues to write and produce hit songs for artists of all mainstream genres, including Elton John, Tina Turner, Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Roy Orbison, Patti LaBelle, 'N Sync, Gloria Estefan, Reba McEntire, Whitney Houston, Enrique Iglesias, RBD, Aerosmith, The Cult, Ricky Martin, Faith Hill, Meat Loaf, Celine Dion, Mary J. Blige, Expose', Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer, and LeAnn Rimes. Her songs have been covered by artists including Weezer, Edwin McCain, Milli Vanilli, and Mark Chestnut, and many others.
Also in 2009, she cowrote the United Kingdom's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest with Andrew Lloyd Webber the song "It's My Time".[11][12] It was sung by Jade Ewen and achieved 5th place, the best for the UK since 2002.[13]
In 2010 Warren joined forces with Avon as a celebrity judge for Avon Voices,[14] Avon's first ever global online singing talent search for women and songwriting competition for men and women.
Diane Warren has been recognized six times ASCAP Songwriter of the Year and four times Billboard’s Songwriter of the Year.[15]
20. http://www.theodoraandcallum.com/blog/cat/creative-factory/post/my-faves-diane-warren/
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