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songwriter

[ sawng-rahy-ter, song- ]

noun

  1. a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.


songwriter

/ ˈɒŋˌɪə /

noun

  1. a person who composes the words or music for songs in a popular idiom
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of songwriter1

First recorded in 1815–25; song + writer
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Jazz: influences: “The songwriters from the Great American Songbook era,” he says.

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You wrote songs for your album “9 Lives” with the songwriter Amy Allen, who also had a hand in Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet.”

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happened with “Mas Tequila” is that there’s a guy named Narada Michael Walden — great songwriter and producer, worked with Whitney and a bunch of other people — he said, “Let’s make a record.”

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The Fleetwood Mac singer and songwriter said she’s calling the album “The Ghost Record” because it grew out of the recent Los Angeles wildfires.

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The songwriter said he had got "to know the Helford River area particularly well" after playing a lot of cricket in Cornwall.

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