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Diane Warren

1956 - Today

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Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956) is an American songwriter. She has won an Academy Honorary Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three consecutive Billboard Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year from 1997 to 1999. She first gained recognition for her work on DeBarge's 1985 single "Rhythm of the Night". By the late 1980s, she joined the record label EMI, where she became the first songwriter in the history of Billboard magazine to have written seven hit songs, each recorded by different artists, on the charts at the same time--prompting EMI's UK Chairman Peter Reichardt to call her "the most important songwriter in the world". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2024). Diane Warren is the 1,385th most popular singer (up from 1,505th in 2024), the 7,564th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,781st in 2019) and the 382nd most popular American Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Diane Warren ranks 1,385 out of 4,381. Before her are Lee Hyori, Kenny Dorham, Ian Hunter, Peaches, Emma Kirkby, and Hagigat Rzayeva. After her are Jeanette MacDonald, Mary J. Blige, Bobby Vee, Yardena Arazi, Jimi Jamison, and Eddy Wally.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Diane Warren ranks 333. Before her are Ismaël Lô, Velimir Zajec, John Lee Hancock, Alain Perrin, Mullah Krekar, and François Hesnault. After her are Miguel Ángel Russo, Oscar Garré, Chuy García, Jean-Paul Agon, Ulrike Meyfarth, and Tim Daly.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Diane Warren ranks 7,566 out of 20,380. Before her are Will Geer (1902), Jimmy Reed (1925), Katherine Rawls (1917), Frank Foss (1895), Edie McClurg (1951), and Phyllis Diller (1917). After her are Thad Jones (1923), Jeanette MacDonald (1903), Gunther Schuller (1925), Darlene Hard (1936), Jack Finney (1911), and Mary J. Blige (1971).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Diane Warren ranks 382. Before her are Lightnin' Hopkins (1912), Sherrill Milnes (1935), Danger Mouse (1977), Shirley Verrett (1931), Junior Wells (1934), and Kenny Dorham (1924). After her are Jeanette MacDonald (1903), Mary J. Blige (1971), Bobby Vee (1943), Jimi Jamison (1951), Lyle Lovett (1957), and David Johansen (1950).

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