Diane Warren

This article is about the American songwriter. For the Canadian author, see Dianne Warren. For the American politician born Diane Lynn Warren, see Diane Black.

Diane Warren
Diane Warren
Background information
Birth nameDiane Eve Warren[1]
Born (1956-09-07) September 7, 1956 (age 68)[2]
Van Nuys, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Songwriter
  • publisher
Years active1983–present

Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956)[1][2] is an American songwriter. She has won an Academy Honorary Award, 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, prompting EMI's UK Chairman Peter Reichardt to call her "the most important songwriter in the world".

Warren has written nine number-one songs and 33 top-10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 including "If I Could Turn Back Time" (Cher, 1989), "Because You Loved Me" (Celine Dion, 1996), "How Do I Live" (LeAnn Rimes, 1997) and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (Aerosmith, 1998). Two of the top 13 hits in the Hot 100's 57-year history were composed by Warren. She has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has been rated the third most successful female artist in the UK, leading her to win the Ivor Novello Award and Special International Award in 2008. Warren has received 15 competitive Academy Award nominations without a win; she received an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2022.[3]

She founded the publishing company Realsongs, through which she holds the masters of her work. Her debut studio album was released on August 27, 2021.[4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mtv was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Diane Warren - Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  3. ^ "THE ACADEMY TO HONOR MICHAEL J. FOX, EUZHAN PALCY, DIANE WARREN AND PETER WEIR WITH OSCARS® AT GOVERNORS AWARDS IN NOVEMBER". Oscars.org. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  4. ^ Lynsky, Dorian (August 26, 2021). "'I'm a one in a billion' – how Diane Warren penned windswept power ballads for Cher, Gaga and Dion". The Guardian.