Diane Warren

出生：1956年12月7日 　　家鄉(xiāng)：加利福尼亞 凡努易斯 　　職業(yè)：作曲家 　　類型：流行 鄉(xiāng)村 搖滾 R&B　　20年時間，1000多首作品，9次Grammy提名，其中3次獲獎，6次ASCAP年度最佳創(chuàng)作者，兩次BMI年度最佳創(chuàng)作者，4次金球獎最佳原創(chuàng)音樂提名……無數(shù)的榮譽都證明：Diane Warren無疑是當代最優(yōu)秀的創(chuàng)作者之一，她的作品傳遍了世界的每個角落，以至有這種說法：每5分鐘，這個世界的某個地方就有一個人在聽她寫的歌。 　　Diane Warren1956年出生于Clifornia的Van Nuys,幾歲時小Diane就對電臺播放的歌曲特別感興趣，但與眾不同的是，更吸引Diane的是那些歌曲的作者，她從小就把Carole King,Lieber,Stoller,Burt Bacharach這些優(yōu)秀的創(chuàng)作者當成自己的偶像，并夢想有一天自己能成為像他們一樣成功。小Diane經(jīng)常嘗試著創(chuàng)作，在父親得知女兒對音樂如此癡迷后，在她10歲生日時，從墨西哥為Diane帶了把12弦的Martin牌吉他，并把Diane送進了一個吉他班學習，但這段時間并非人們想像的那樣順利，因為小Diane常常沉浸在自己腦海產(chǎn)生的旋律中，以致于跟不上老師的進度，她的吉它老師還下定論說她連調(diào)子都聽不準，在音樂方面不可能有什么發(fā)展。小Diane很受打擊，為了不影響家里人，父親在家院的后面搭了間小屋子，以供小Diane在那里練吉它以及創(chuàng)作歌曲。 　　幾年后，在選擇未來的職業(yè)時，Diane與家里人發(fā)生了分歧，母親認為音樂創(chuàng)作這個行業(yè)的競爭太激烈，堅決不讓她干這行，好在父親理解女兒，在父親的支持下，Diane開始嘗試著走進音樂創(chuàng)作這個領(lǐng)域。這個時期的Diane雖然不斷地試圖敲開音樂工業(yè)的大門，但每次的結(jié)果都是遭到拒絕，有一次，一位老板竟以"你這一段有9句歌詞，一般來說應(yīng)該是8句"這樣的理由回絕。無奈之下Diane決定先在唱片公司隨便找個職業(yè)固定下來再說，然而事實證明她的想法錯了，兩個星期后，她就被公司解雇。事業(yè)的不順讓Diane有些灰心喪氣，她沒有想到自己從小夢寐以求的音樂界競爭這么殘酷，在Diane看來，解決目前處境的辦法只有加倍努力地搞創(chuàng)作。她讓自己全身心地投入到了音樂中，以至有時走到路上，頭腦中突然冒出了一段旋律，而碰巧又沒帶錄音機，她會立即打個電話回家，用錄音電話記下自己想到的旋律。這種情況一直持續(xù)到1983年。 　　這一年，在一位朋友的引薦下，Diane結(jié)識了Laura Branigan的制作人Jack White,也許是初試身手，Jack有點不放心，他只是叫Diane把Laura的一首法語歌的歌詞翻譯成英語，這就是后來Laura的Top 10單曲"Solitaire"。1985年，Diane為電影"The Last Dragon"寫了首"Rhythm Of The Night"，這首歌登上了Billboard的No.3，自此以后Diane開始為人們所識，87年，Diane又有了3首Top 10，分別是Belinda Carlisle的"I Get Weak"，Starship的"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"(這首也是Diane的第一支No.1單曲)和Heart的"who Will You Run To?"。就在同一年，由于與Jack White一場官司，Diane毅然決定完全由自己掌握單曲的發(fā)行權(quán)，于是成立了"Realsongs Company"，"Realsongs"的歌曲來源全由Diane一人創(chuàng)作，而當時商業(yè)上的同事Doreen Dorion和Ken Philips則負責聯(lián)系歌曲的演唱者。1988年，Diane為Chicago寫的"I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love"和"Look Away"再次稱霸Billboard榜（后者也是Diane的第二首No.1單曲）。這一時期的Diane創(chuàng)作力相當旺盛，她常常是成天呆在錄音室里，一有靈感就趕快記下來，而且一般是保持著一個月50首歌曲的創(chuàng)作量，有時一天就是3首。如果說這時的Diane在樂界僅僅是小有名氣的話，那么接下來 1989年的巨大成功則讓Diane Warren這個名字在樂界無人不知，僅這一年，就有十幾首Diane創(chuàng)作的歌曲打進Top 10，這其中包括Cher的"If I Could Turn Back The Time",Aretha Franklin與Elton John合唱的"Through The Storm"，Milli Vanilli的"Blame It On The Rain",Bad English的"When I See You Smile",Taylor Dayne的"Love Will Lead You Back"以及Michael Bolton的"How Can We Be Lovers"等等，Diane也在這一年創(chuàng)下了Billboard的一項記錄：同時有七首同位作者的歌曲保持在Billboard Top 100以內(nèi)。1990年，Diane當之無愧地獲得了"Billboard Singles Publisher Of The Year/Year End"的No.1。從83年到現(xiàn)在的20年中，Diane共計擁有了近百首Top 100,包括60多首Top 10，其中的"How Do I Live"也是Billboard上榜時間最長的單曲 (69 周)。 由于Diane驚人的創(chuàng)作速度以及作品的不俗戰(zhàn)績，音樂界的同行們都稱她為" "Industry Powerhouse"和"Hit Machine"。
by Ed Hogan
Songwriter Diane Warren's songs have been covered by Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion ("Because You Loved Me"), Patti Labelle ("If You Asked Me To," also a hit for Celine Dion), Barbra Streisand, Gloria Estefan ("Reach"), Tina Turner, Whitney Houston ("You Were Loved"), Toni Braxton ("Un-Break My Heart"), Aerosmith ("I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from the Bruce Willis movie Armageddon), Aaron Neville, the Faith Hill/Tim McGraw duet "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me," Starship ("Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from the 1987 movie Mannequin), and Ricky Martin. Johnny Mathis recorded a whole album of Warren's songs entitled Because You Loved Me: Songs of Diane Warren, produced by Humberto Gatica and released by Sony Music on October 20, 1998. Mary J. Blige covered Warren's "Give Me You" on her Mary album (MCA, summer 1999). N'Sync and Gloria Estefan scored a fall 1999 hit with the title song from the Meryl Streep movie Music of the Heart. One of Warren's songs, "How Do I Live," from the Nicolas Cage movie Con Air, charted for a record-setting 69 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. A three-time Grammy winner, a five-time ASCAP Songwriter of the Year winner, and a two-time BMI Songwriter of the Year winner, Warren still shares a common songwriter trait: relative public anonymity. You know the singers that sing her songs, you can no doubt hum bars to many of her songs, but you've probably never heard of her. Definitely a "pop songwriter" in the sense of her use of fluent melodies, ballad tempos, and universal themes, Warren's music has been covered by just about every kind of singer -- the result of a treasured skill honed by her 20-year-old, 12 hour/six-day-a-week writing schedule that has led to a 800 song catalog. She gets songs ideas from conversations and her fertile imagination. Warren's songs have appeared in over 50 movies, including Ghostbusters, Space Jam, Prince of Egypt, Up Close and Personal, The Preacher's Wife, and White Men Can't Jump. Her music publishing firm, Realsongs, was named one of the top five music-publishing companies by Billboard magazine. She's also what was once known as a song-plugger: she tenaciously purses recording artists to cover her songs. Born Diane Eve Warren in 1956 in Van Nuys, CA, her father was an insurance salesman and writer/painter who nurtured her girlhood dreams of becoming a hit songwriter. He bought her a 12-string Martin guitar and a back yard metal shed that was Warren's private "rehearsal space." Her father escorted her to music publishers, where she'd be rejected time after time. To gain entry into the insular music business, Warren took a job with a music industry messenger service thinking that this would open important doors for her. The plan proved faulty when she was fired two weeks later. Her big break came when she was in her mid-twenties, after a friend helped her get a staff songwriting job with pop singer Laura Branigan's producer Jack White. Giving her a French melody written by Martine Clemenceau, he asked Warren to come up with English lyrics. The song became "Solitaire," a number seven pop hit in early 1983 that was included on the gold LP Branigan 2, which peaked at number 29 pop in the spring of 1983. Her 1999 projects included co-writing a song with Mariah Carey for the film Anna and the King.