Stephen Sondheim has been the composer and lyricist of 15 stage musicals and the lyricist for three others.
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Cohen was not a poet who accidentally became a lyricist; he was a lyricist who for years fooled himself into thinking he was a poet.
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If you insist that a hip-hop lyricist needs to be read as a poet, isn't the implication there that they're not a hip-hop lyricist, they're a poet?
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Thom Yorke is the most overrated lyricist in music today.
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"Ed Sheeran is a remarkably open, direct lyricist," he says.
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You hear that in a great lyricist like Bruce Springsteen.
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Ruth Grahm spent most of her life as a lyricist.
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He scooped up the Kleban prize for most promising lyricist.
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"Yeah, I was just keeping it casual," goofs Emily, chief lyricist.
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Who inspired you as a lyricist when you first started writing?
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Sounds like Fitzgerald may have a promising lyricist career ahead, himself.
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The main reason I thought about it is the lyricist. Hunter.
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This is Drake when he smells that young, talented lyricist blood.
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A younger brother, Jacques, became a noted journalist, novelist and lyricist.
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I felt like I finally hit my stride as a lyricist.
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Still, the temptation to treat her foremost as a lyricist remains.
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That's when Kendrick Lamar, the brilliant lyricist behind the good kid, m.
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Prince was an original lyricist and a "startling" guitar player, he added.
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As a lyricist, do you ever worry about making things too clear?
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Gord Downie (1964–2017), lead singer and lyricist of the Tragically Hip.
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In 1970, he met Mr. Blanc, a psychiatry student and sometime lyricist.
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Meanwhile, another contender for the presidency is pop music lyricist Michal Horacek.
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He was a lyricist—not a musician—and Dylan was, well, Dylan.
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About my background: I'm a writer, lyricist, and former book club editor.
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In his will, Edward Kleban, the Tony Award-winning lyricist of "A Chorus Line," made provisions to underwrite two cash prizes for musical theater writers whose work shows great potential: one to a lyricist and one to a librettist.
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Ms. Luftig, 54, won the prize for the most promising musical theater lyricist.
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I'm pleased to announce that New York's finest grocery lyricist is back, baby.
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Nigerian rapper Falz took home the trophy for the Best African Rapper/Lyricist.
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"It didn't seem brave at all," said the lyricist and composer, William Finn.
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With my role in Priest as a lyricist, I'm constantly evolving and growing.
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Its lyricist, Tian Han, died in prison during the Cultural Revolution in 1968.
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Webber composed the music for the musical with Tim Rice as the lyricist.
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Instead, he's a conversational lyricist, who sings in spoken sentences, massaged into melody.
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Robert Hunter, a longtime collaborator and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, has died.
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Entertainment sites are currently lamenting the loss of a poet turned Grateful Dead lyricist.
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" The show's lyricist, Lauren Gundrum, told the Post: "Martin's just such an interesting character.
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John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and internet pioneer, has died.
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DijahSB—born Khadijah Payne, 24—is a talented lyricist from Toronto's hip-hop scene.
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The Rainbow singer was everything Ozzy wasn't: professional, pitch-perfect, a lyricist, and American.
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Swift might be Cats creator and famed Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's ideal lyricist.
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The pop star's friendship with his lyricist is a major focus of the biopic.
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Steinberg was a lyricist of the metal nib — a twirler of nonverbal non sequiturs.
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Mr. Barlow joined the Grateful Dead as a nonresident lyricist in the early 1970s.
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"She has great ear for hooks, and she's a beautiful lyricist," Mr. Shaiman said.
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"That song is rude," said Daniel Goldstein, the show's book writer and co-lyricist.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is already a composer, a lyricist, an actor and an author.
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Rihanna has only co-written many of her songs, so she's not necessarily a lyricist.
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It's only during the last few years that I've started to consider myself a lyricist.
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Stephen Sondheim Probably the most lauded and certainly the most decorated living lyricist in America.
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His image "was this 'John John' cartoon," says former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow.
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I relate more to her Jersey essence than to the queen lyricist that she is.
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The lyricist, librettist and producer Oscar Hammerstein owned a Tudor-style house in Kings Point.
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The figure of the enigmatic lyricist holds the adoring gaze of many a music critic.
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But he was best known as the producer, manager and lyricist for Blue Öyster Cult.
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The bride is a maternal granddaughter of Alan Jay Lerner, the American lyricist and librettist.
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"I've always rapped about different states of consciousness — I'm a surrealist lyricist," Mx. Michael said.
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RED BANK, N.J. — The composer and lyricist Joe Iconis roots for the underdog, the oddball.
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It was a lesson he absorbed from the lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, who was his mentor.
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Mr. Prince married Judy Chaplin, daughter of the composer and lyricist Saul Chaplin, in 1962.
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Mr. Prince married Judy Chaplin, daughter of the composer and lyricist Saul Chaplin, in 1962.
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As a lyricist, I find country songs are kind of like a movie in a song.
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Three. Menken and lyricist Tim Rice (The Lion King) wrote three new ballads for the film.
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When you started your own project and were the sole lyricist, what was the biggest difference?
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Along with Iommi and Osbourne, there's bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler, and drummer Bill Ward. Wait.
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The 212 film's lyricist, Richard M. Sherman, returned to create new songs for the new movie.
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It was the first one he ever wrote—and the mark of a brilliant, sensitive lyricist.
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Lyricist Tim Rice authored the song,and singer Elton John provided the arrangement and lead vocals.
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Then there's the collaborative gifts of Disney's musical auteurs, composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman.
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Lead singer and lyricist Brandon Flowers co-wrote the song with the band's guitarist, Dave Keuning.
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The bride, 313, is a musical theater lyricist and the groom, also 29, is a librettist.
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The bride, 29, is a musical theater lyricist and the groom, also 29, is a librettist.
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Tripp served as lyricist and producer, while Weisbord set the lyrics to music and played piano.
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The Rush drummer and lyricist known for his intricate yet explosive playing has died at 67.
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Peart was also Rush's primary lyricist, drawing inspiration from sources like Ayn Rand and Mark Twain.
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You could see another lyricist was afoot here, and Bob totally utilized the resource he had.
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Their name is an acronym for Black Liberation Via Creativity and Knowledge and they are comprised of four members: Siri Imani, the poet; Aziza Love, the songstress, vocalist, and instrumentalist; Pxvce (pronounced Peace), the beat maker, producer, and lyricist; and Jessi Jumanji, a visual artist and lyricist.
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Winnie Holzman and three-time Oscar-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz are also collaborating on the film.
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Despite that claim, Shkreli couldn't resist firing a shot Wednesday via Twitter at the show's lyricist Gundrum.
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He remains very close to "Hamilton," for one thing, and its star-composer-lyricist, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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I love Bono for his personal advice on charitable giving, but he is also a perceptive lyricist.
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Svalbard's got something to fucking say, and its lyricist wants to ensure she's making herself crystal clear.
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Now that the song's lyricist has become a parent himself, the song is all the more poignant.
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The new tune will be composed by Disney vet Alan Menken and Oscar-winning lyricist Tim Rice.
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Sometimes, that's the fault of the lyricist, who may have put two conflicting syllables end-to-end.
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Taraborrelli also spoke to John's friend John Perry Barlow, the Grateful Dead lyricist who died last year.
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Skepta, by contrast, is a bruiser — a straightforward, metaphor-light lyricist whose rhymes land like quick jabs.
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So long as the medium or the message is a cookie, Cookie Monster is lyricist, writer, dancer.
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"Oscar — let's not say he was a poet — was a lyricist and a playwright," Mr. Sondheim said.
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She has talked to her friend Stephen Sondheim, the show's lyricist, about potential revisions to the songs.
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He made his debut as a singer, lyricist, and frontman in 2014 with an incredible album, Liberation!
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"Eight years went by fast," said a grinning James Hetfield, the band's singer, rhythm guitarist and lyricist.
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Prince produced West Side Story in 270, which marked Sondheim's Broadway debut as lyricist for Leonard Bernstein.
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John Latouche, a prolific lyricist of Broadway's golden age, had an omnivorous taste in art and friends.
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Adopting her mother's original surname for professional reasons, Ms. Wile worked as a singer, composer and lyricist.
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The selections found a second life as reset to sacred texts by the Italian lyricist Aquilino Coppini.
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On nearly all of the full-length songs, Solange is credited as the sole composer and lyricist.
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Playlist: Bike Back / Benz Punany / The Lyricist / The Lyricist Pt. II* / 6'7* / Touch Ah Button / Colouring This Life / Eva Bless / Like Xmas / Bend Like Banana / Hold It / Mhm Hm Spotify | Apple Music In 2009, Kartel began to solidify his influence within dancehall by taking other artists under his wing.
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"Timberlake is such an abjectly poor lyricist that scraps like these feel like manna from heaven," Cox wrote.
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Simply put: Bernie Taupin is Elton John's song-writing partner, and the lyricist behind John's most famous songs.
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Also featured: three new songs written by Menken and veteran lyricist and three-time Oscar winner Tim Rice.
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I think this one is the favorite because as a lyricist I really knew what I was doing.
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Mr Lanier describes one associate as a "hippie physicist musician", another as a Wyoming rancher and rock lyricist.
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The drop isn't a coincidence: July 22017 is show creator, composer and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda's last performance.
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Hutchison the songwriter—and especially lyricist—was those things too, maybe slightly more serious and undoubtedly more open.
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For a masterful lyricist like Bowie to move away from writing songs with words is a big deal.
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He is a snoozy lyricist, almost wholly uninterested in narrative, complexity or even the basic tenets of rhyme.
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Mark Waldrop, the co-conceiver, lyricist and director of "When Pigs Fly," can pretty much pinpoint the shift.
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"He is a lyricist and adman and understands the language and the industry," Benegal told Reuters over the phone.
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The lyrics were written in memoriam of a night out lyricist Kevin O'Toole had at club Hacienda in Manchester.
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John Perry Barlow, who died on February 7th, was a Grateful Dead lyricist, cyber-pundit, cattle rancher and idealist.
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"I'm not a great lyricist, so I can't go Bob Dylan style without looking like a jackass," he insists.
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Remy is an amazing lyricist, a lovable but level-headed reality star, a well-paid artist, and an advocate.
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That's him drinking sangria and totally NOT the blood of an up-and-coming lyricist he found on Soundcloud.
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We always knew Noname was a sophisticated lyricist, but now, she isn't just relying on the characters around her.
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Before her sentencing, she'd earned a reputation as a sharp-tongued lyricist with a raspy lilt and blond bangs.
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The musical's writer and producer, Winnie Holzman and composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz, will work on the film as well.
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Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist of the Tragically Hip, was one of Canada's most revered rock stars.
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According to Miller, Landon was a complex amalgam of ingénue and siren, a limpid lyricist and a canny negotiator.
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Last year, Stephen Sondheim was the recipient of the service award; he became the first composer-lyricist to win.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, the musical's creator and composer-lyricist, was also awarded on honor for outstanding achievement in music.
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This free show in Brownsville, Brooklyn, is presented by City Parks Foundation and the Lyricist Lounge 25th-Anniversary Series.cityparksfoundation.
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Michael Friedman, the composer and lyricist behind "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," will be the next artistic director of Encores!
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Anyone who's ever read the words to Dave's raps will know how ridiculously talented a lyricist the guy is.
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He said they were going to use the songs and why didn't I come out and be their lyricist?
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However, for their second album, Outer Heaven, Jiwani made some adjustments in his role as the singer and lyricist.
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In a matter of minutes, at Tuesday night's BET Hip Hop Awards, Eminem became a relevant and controversial lyricist again.
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In that role, I had the chance to interview a wide range of guests, including Grammy-nominated female lyricist Rapsody.
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Rahman and the injured teacher were followers of Lalon Shah, an 18th-century Bengali lyricist and secular thinker, police said.
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In 1978, she added marquee-power to Starmania, the ambitious rock-opera Berger co-wrote with Canadian lyricist Luc Plamondon.
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Cut to 2006, when the play was turned into a rock musical by musician Duncan Sheik and lyricist Steven Sater.
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" We'd expect nothing less from the young lyricist who once proclaimed she's "never seen a ceiling in my whole life.
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It's also worth mentioning that the lyricist/composer, who was born in Moldova, is called Peleneagră—Romanian for Black Skin.
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"These kids from this community are running away from the fear of rejection or violence," the Kinky Boots lyricist explains.
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Rounding out the original Lonely Island trio are Jorma Taccone as Conner's DJ and Akiva Shaffer as as a lyricist.
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He's the mascot for the 2016 Games, named after the poet and lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, who was from Rio.
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In 19763, my father, a 21976-year-old psychologist turned theater director and lyricist, bumped into Dylan on the street.
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Newsom is a harpist, pianist, exquisite lyricist — and the center of a mighty fandom, of both the musical and fashion varieties.
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But Diamandis is a lyricist — she's not distracted by fashion, despite how much her previous discography and visuals may say otherwise.
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Bollywood lyricist and adman Prasoon Joshi has been named Nihalani's replacement for three years, according to a government statement on Friday.
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While this does result in some refrigerator magnet poetry, his knack for embodying strange characters makes him an incredibly potent lyricist.
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"Rocketman" also stars Jamie Bell as lyricist Bernie Taupin, and Richard Madden as the singer's former lover and manager John Reid.
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A calling card of Rønnenfelt's as a lyricist has always been his eagerness for juxtapositions—abstractness and specificity, beauty and ugliness.
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The theatrical format is partly a tribute to David Newburge, who made the recordings and later became a playwright and lyricist.
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John Darnielle is "America's best non-hip-hop lyricist"—at least according to those fusty crabs over at the New Yorker.
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He's a gifted lyricist, but his signature is his voice, which modulates effortlessly between a subterranean murmur and a high crackle.
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Sxip Shirey, Ms. Skipitares's collaborator, supplies eerie sounds and powerful songs as the composer and lyricist for the live musical sections.
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But he is a musician, and his relationship with words is as a lyricist, someone whose prose exists inexorably with music.
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And apparently her M.O. as a lyricist is roughly the same: fragmented and semi-opaque, unrhymed, sometimes verging toward language poetry.
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He now lives with his girlfriend of five years, Rebekah Melocik, a musical-theatre lyricist who also teaches chess to children.
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Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for the Canadian prog-rock band Rush for more than 19973 years, died on Jan.
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In 2018, she received the Kleban Prize, one of two cash prizes of $100,000 given to a lyricist and a librettist.
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Arto Lindsay: I met Hélio through a guy called Waly Salomão, a Brazilian poet and lyricist who lived in New York.
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Alan Schmuckler and Amanda Yesnowitz were given the lyricist prize, while Christian Duhamel is the recipient of this year's librettist award.
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An observant, witty lyricist, and any lyricist who can seamlessly juxtapose horrific IRA bombings of British pubs, the Osmonds, crushed velvet flares, and Lee Scratch Perry should always be cherished, this small, slight man with a penchant for glam rock and brilliant jackets has spent much of his life struggling to live up to his own expectations.
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But he appeared to have found a new home as guitar player and lyricist for the Utah-based rock band Dharma Combat.
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Anyone who has silently cried while listening to Taylor Swift's "All Too Well" knows that the pop star is a master lyricist.
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Buford: I mean, even if you take away the music, just lyrically, Courtney Love is a much better lyricist than Kurt Cobain.
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At his best, the music benefits from the contradiction between his scope as a lyricist-observer and his individuality as a performer.
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The festival organiser is Vincent Fang Wenshan, a Taiwanese lyricist behind some of the most famous Mandarin pop songs of recent times.
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Chloë Grace Moretz caught the musical stylings of R&B artist Miguel on Tuesday night with the company of yet another lyricist.
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Meghan, who Sydney notes "has been a poet forever," is the primary lyricist of Doll Skin's brazen tunes, though Sydney sings them.
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As an artist and lyricist who grew up on Tribe Called Quest, do you feel a need to respond against that message?
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Dacus is a brave lyricist and her sensual expression of catharsis will stay with you long after you've finished with this record.
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It's an album of stately, autumnal, metaphysical cowboy songs Mr. Weir wrote with the lyricist Josh Ritter and the guitarist Josh Kaufman.
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The musical reunites much of the creative team behind "Matilda the Musical," including Mr. Warchus and the composer and lyricist Tim Minchin.
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Her father, a lyricist and playwright, is an author of "Ain't Misbehavin'," which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1978.
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This record feels like when you found your voice as a lyricist, as you seem more confident and witty on this record.
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In the annals of ALW collaborators, Swift may be the first lyricist with the range, experience, and stature to stand alongside Rice.
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To mark the occasion, T asked 10 friends, collaborators and admirers to reflect on the legendary composer and lyricist of musical theater.
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"After the entry of Karunanidhi into film, Tamil cinema completely changed," Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu, a poet, writer and lyricist, said in an interview.
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Here's Jon Pareles on Neal Peart, the brilliant drummer and lyricist of the Canadian band Rush, who died last week at 67.
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Talented lyricist Rapsody (real name Marlanna Evans) has seen, heard, and personally experienced enough anti-Blackness and sexism to last a lifetime.
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Stephen Sondheim has been awarded the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award — making him the first composer-lyricist to win it.
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"Unknown Soldier," one of the last projects the beloved composer and lyricist worked on before he died, is coming to New York.
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Mr. Elverum has always been an impressionistic lyricist, but here, the line is blurred between singing, speaking and raw emotional data dump.
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" Stig Anderson, the lyricist and manager for Abba, established the prize in 1989, aiming to "celebrate music in all its various forms.
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While not a terribly inventive lyricist, Collins turns out to be a gifted storyteller and a likable narrator of his own audiobook.
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She posted a photo of Legend alongside fellow EGOT artists, lyricist Tim Rice and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, and captioned it, "EGOT GOATS."
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In fact, the location was specifically chosen because it is Pence's home state, according to The Prom's co-writer and lyricist Chad Beguelin.
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The film's acclaimed lyricist Howard Ashman – hot off the success of The Little Mermaid – had his eye on her for Belle early on.
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Now, the virtuoso bassist (and endlessly eccentric lyricist) is poised to break through to his widest audience yet with his third album, Drunk.
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My whole thing is, respect what I do as a lyricist the same way you respect what Young Thug or Lil Yachty does.
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But according to INSIDER's research, "Brown Skin Girl" marks the first time that Carter has been listed in production credits as a lyricist.
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Rob Benvie from Thrush Hermit, as a writer and my friend and contemporary, he was a massive influence on me as a lyricist.
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Now, the virtuoso bassist (and endlessly eccentric lyricist) is poised to break through to his widest audience yet with his third album, Drunk.
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And unlike some of his generational peers, for whom rapping in the classical sense is an afterthought, Juice WRLD is a strong lyricist.
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Gord Downie, lead singer and lyricist of the Tragically Hip and one of Canada's most revered rock stars, died on Tuesday in Toronto.
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Neil Peart, the pyrotechnical drummer and high-concept lyricist for the Canadian progressive-rock trio Rush, died on Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Ms. Lister-Jones (TV's "Life in Pieces") is not only the lead but also the director (in her debut), screenwriter and co-lyricist.
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And Chance, already a formidable lyricist in his own right, handed back a career-topping verse that paid direct homage to West's influence.
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Not only was she a poetic lyricist, but she had a handful of songs that were explicitly about other women, using female pronouns.
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The prize is underwritten by the Kleban Foundation, established in 1988 in the will of Edward L. Kleban (the lyricist of "A Chorus Line").
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This week on Noisey Radio, the legendary Rob Halford, singer and lyricist of Judas Priest, stops by to discuss the band's new album, Firepower.
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Along with being a minister, author, composer, lyricist, organist, teacher, and child-whispering lion, for a moment Fred Rogers was also an art critic.
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"I'm still processing this moment," Osborne, 34, captioned the shot on Instagram before expressing his gratitude to John and his longtime lyricist, Bernie Taupin.
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In the 44 years that followed, Thompson would meet, marry and divorce Caitlyn Jenner, launch a television career and become an award-winning lyricist.
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Thematically, I pair her with the other literary example in the grid, the much-heralded poet, novelist, lyricist and playwright RITA DOVE, at 112A.
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And as a lyricist, she's earnest but not saccharine — even when she blends smoothly with another singer, Sachal Vasandani, on "Away," a lite-samba.
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Fey's husband, Jeff Richmond, and Nell Benjamin, a seasoned lyricist known for Broadway's take on Legally Blonde, are also reportedly working on the musical.
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Her full-time job may be "being a good mother, first and foremost", but Allen is still a witty commentator and a sharp lyricist.
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School of Rock — The Musical features music from the movie as well as an original score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Glenn Slater.
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Vernon has always been a lyricist of huge sentiment and few words, and here we see him communicating his vision with almost philosophical clarity.
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Because of an editing error, an obituary on Wednesday about Sandy Pearlman, a record producer, lyricist, manager, and professor, misstated his date of birth.
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Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, with Mr. Hendricks as principal lyricist and ebullient onstage between-songs spokesman, introduced the concept of vocalese to a vast audience.
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He was an astute, intricate rapper; as a lyricist he was a classicist in an era that had largely turned away from that style.
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Bay Area multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and lyricist Leila Abdul-Rauf is one of the extreme and experimental music scene's great, under-sung, polymathic talents.
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At the other end was Stephen Sondheim, the show's 89-year-old lyricist, who was having a hard time with the red carpet photographers.
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The words are from the song "The Camera Eye," written by Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of the Canadian progressive-rock trio Rush.
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In addition to their daughter, Ms. Green, a Broadway lyricist and composer, Ms. Newman is survived by their son, Adam Green, a theater critic.
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The East Atlanta rapper is a deft lyricist, able to weave together narratives of gun violence and mental health with an ease that's astounding.
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The most promising lyricist award went to two winners: the performer and composer Shaina Taub and the playwright and musical theater writer Sarah Hammond.
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At the core of all of this was the late, legendary Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, a brilliant lyricist who famously didn't care much for rehearsing.
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Though lyricist Lauren Mayberry sings about how volatile discourse has become, it could also be interpreted to be about a romantic relationship or a friendship.
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Lamar is hands down a more talented lyricist, and "Humble" was itself a huge track this year, and an important one both culturally and politically.
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Paak is a gifted lyricist without taking himself to seriously — on "Come Down," for example, he uses the phrase "cool beans" without batting an eye.
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It's written by Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde) and lyricist Robin Lerner — and can be found in the new forthcoming musical Song of Bernadette.
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The most memorable line, however, goes to TLC lyricist Left Eye, who was adept at controlling her own narrative in a pre-social media era.
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OBITUARIES Because of an editing error, an obituary on Wednesday about Sandy Pearlman, a record producer, lyricist, manager, and professor, misstated his date of birth.
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The book writers Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, the composer Chris Miller, the lyricist Nathan Tysen and the director Casey Nicholaw bid for Broadway immortality.
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It may well have delighted the lyricist Yip Harburg, a frequent collaborator of Harold Arlen's and an activist committed to racial, gender and economic equality.
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Given the length, each moment of the album carries so much purpose, showcasing his unmatched skills as a lyricist and Kanye's best production in years.
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A musical by the celebrated writer, composer and lyricist Michael Friedman will be featured at Playwrights Horizons's 2019-20 Season, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Of course, through various revised versions other the years, others (including Sondheim) made contributions to Wilbur's work, though he remains credited as the primary lyricist.
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Both founders are performing this weekend at this annual party, along with the mystical lyricist Jay Electronica, the chic New York rapper Leaf and others.
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You may never have thought "The Mob Song" from 1991's Beauty and the Beast was lyricist and playwright Howard Ashman's way of fighting bigotry.
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Along with being (besides much else) a minister, author, composer, lyricist, organist, teacher, and child-whispering lion, for the moment he was also an art critic.
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He's not known for being the most direct lyricist but this song specifically is sort of about the mundanity of going to the office every day.
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I'm not the best lyricist in the world and she's singing 'I'm stoked on ambition and verve' instead of 'you're going to get what you deserve.
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Moneybagg isn't the most distinctive rapper stylistically, but he's a solid lyricist—"pockets getting fat / I'm talking Hungry Hungry Hippo"—and supremely comfortable on every track.
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Last December, in celebration of John's 50-year songwriting partnership with master lyricist Bernie Taupin, the duo launched 'Elton John: The Cut,' in partnership with YouTube.
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With "Te Bote" co-producer Young Martino in tow, the Puerto Rican lyricist weaves his streetwise narrative with a touch of braggadocio and a knowing glare.
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" Heading into the Oscars Gudnadottir had won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Hollywood Critics Association and society of composers and lyricist awards for her work on "Joker.
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Promoting Beauty and the Beast by touting its daring inclusivity (or, grotesquely, its "tribute" to lyricist Howard Ashman), makes for a lot of attention-grabbing articles.
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It's true that acidheads like Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter were first exposed to LSD in research programs ultimately linked to Gottlieb's.
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Here Jehnny Beth, the French-born lead singer and main lyricist of Savages, discusses the group's creative process and what makes it out of her notebook.
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Printz's earliest clients was the Broadway lyricist Adolph Green, who based Judy Holliday's character in the "Bells Are Ringing," a lovestruck telephone receptionist, on Mrs. Printz.
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But rather than a singer dynamic enough to match it, we get a dynamic guitarist who also happens to be the sole lyricist and solo singer.
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Based on the romantic and professional history of its composer Marvin Hamlisch and its lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, the musical had a book by Neil Simon.
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On Sunday, the theater's artistic director, Peter C. Brosius, had informed the cast that Mr. Friedman, the show's composer and lyricist, had died the day before.
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"Porgy" was created, after all, by white people: the author and lyricist DuBose Heyward and his wife, the playwright Dorothy Heyward; and George and Ira Gershwin.
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Heathcote Williams, a poet, playwright, actor, lyricist, painter, sculptor, magician and relentless scourge of the British establishment for half a century, died on Saturday in Oxford.
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Irving Burgie, a singer, composer and lyricist whose songs were immortalized by Harry Belafonte during the calypso craze of the 20073s, died on Friday in Brooklyn.
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Miles' arrival comes over a month after Legend's acclaimed turn as Jesus in composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.
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Esher's collaborator in the show, lyricist Lauren Gundrum, said she and Esher first became aware of Shkreli, as did much of the rest of America, last fall.
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"Blowin' in the Wind" (1962) Though the melody was largely lifted from the old spiritual "No More Auction Block," this is Dylan's watershed moment as a lyricist.
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Cornell also had an extensive solo career as a singer, guitarist, composer and lyricist and worked with various other musicians over three decades in the music business.
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Morrissey has made careless and questionable remarks not only in passing interviews, but in his songs as well, which for such a deft lyricist seems extra condemning.
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The general wisdom among musical theater fans is that ALW was only truly great when he was composing with his earliest collaborator, the brilliant lyricist Tim Rice.
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In 1991, during an interview with the NME, the guitarist and lyricist Richey Edwards used a razor blade to carve the phrase "4 REAL" into his arm.
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They ably conveyed storytelling elements without getting bogged down in details — as a lyricist, Ms. Cash understands that the book (by John Weidman) can carry its share.
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In 1972 he left "Captain Kangaroo" to stage a musical comedy, for which he was writer, composer and lyricist, at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village.
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His international itinerary is a continuation of how Visitante worked in Calle 13, his duo with his stepbrother, the rapper and lyricist René Pérez Joglar, or Residente.
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When an act of fate threw him together with Bernie Taupin, his writing partner and lyricist, they both lived in John's family roost thanks to bunk beds.
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Logic's third LP, "Everybody," recently topped the Billboard charts, and this summer he is touring arenas with the trenchant Brooklyn lyricist Joey Badass as an opening act.
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Mr. Price, an eternally boyish actor turned director, was in it from the beginning, playing one of the show's three main characters, Charley Kringas, a song lyricist.
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Neil Peart, the prodigiously talented drummer and eclectic primary lyricist for the Canadian rock band Rush, died Tuesday in Santa Monica, California, according to a family spokesman.
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The show's unifying principle is contained in its subtitle: "The Musical World of Maury Yeston" — that would be the lyricist-composer behind "Nine" (1982) and "Titanic" (1997).
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He also worked with Leonard Bernstein, the lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and the writing team of Comden and Green, not to mention Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor.
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This year's winners were chosen by a committee consisting of the actress Marin Mazzie; the composer and lyricist Dave Malloy; and the musical-theater scholar Laurence Maslon.
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Prior to the film's use of the tune, John and his lyricist partner Bernie Taupin have addressed its meaning in the past, as well as its surprising inspiration.
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Two stood out: Antônio Carlos ("Tom") Jobim, a prodigiously talented pianist and composer (and fan of Debussy), and Vinicius de Moraes, a hard-drinking diplomat, poet and lyricist.
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"Our board is not supposed to be a censor board, it's supposed to be a certification board," said Varun Grover, a screen writer and lyricist based in Bombay.
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At the show, Broadway stars came together to perform the hits of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim including Williams, Jonathan Groff (Glee), and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family).
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Paak is well known as a singer, but his bars are an underrated asset, and here he gives a mean case for consideration as a formidable rap lyricist.
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The Purple One and the Compton lyricist teamed up for "What's My Name," with Kendrick tacking his own verse on to the track off 1998's Crystal Ball.
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As a lyricist, Moreland is uninterested in indictments; there are no heroes or villains, he suggests, just folks making their way through the world the best they can.
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As the frontman and lyricist for the group fondly known as "Canada's band," he writes songs that are rooted in his experience of and love for his country.
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Cornell also had an extensive solo career as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer and lyricist and worked with various other musicians over three decades in the music business.
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John, now 72, married and many years sober, serves as an executive producer and the author (with his lyricist Bernie Taupin, of course) of most of the soundtrack.
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He loved the music and the performances, notably Robert Klein as Vernon Gersch, the neurotic Hamlisch stand-in, and Lucie Arnaz as the free-spirited lyricist Sonia Walsk.
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Connoisseurs of New York City rap have been following the smart, scrappy lyricist known as Wiki since he debuted as part of the group Ratking five years ago.
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Other artists include the lyricist, librettist and playwright Stacey Luftig, who won the $100,000 Kleban Prize in 2016 and is writing "Saving Amelia" with the composer Phillip Palmer.
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"This is my favorite place," said Amelia Meath, Sylvan Esso's singer and lyricist, as she reclined on the floor, gazing up at the grooves on the animal's belly.
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Ms. Newman, an actress, singer and women's health advocate, died in September at age 86; her husband, Mr. Green, a playwright and lyricist, died in 2002 at 87.
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The entire film is especially enjoyable if you have an affinity for classic musical theater, as the lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez and the composer Robert Lopez clearly do.
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The Kleban Foundation was established in 1988 in the will of Edward Kleban, a composer and lyricist who won a Tony and a Pulitzer for "A Chorus Line."
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However, "Brown Skin Girl" appears to be the only song listed on Carter's Spotify page — possibly because it's the only song on which she's credited as a lyricist.
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There was less of an emphasis on who the best lyricist was or who had a better flow, with record labels honing in on appearance, individuality, and sex appeal.
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That being said, if Comey's looking for a new career post-FBI, he should seriously consider becoming a lyricist for Dashboard Confessional or, failing that, Death Cab for Cutie.
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Over the Rainbow, which he composed alongside the lyricist E. Y. Harburg for the film The Wizard of Oz, won an Academy Award in 1939 for Best Original Song.
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Music is big business, and while singing and playing in a band can make you rich and famous — working as producer, dancer, or lyricist can be even more lucrative.
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As a lyricist, it was the point where I stopped caring what anybody thought and just wrote for myself and allowed myself to be as esoteric as I wanted.
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Last December, in celebration of the legendary Elton John's 50-year songwriting partnership with master lyricist Bernie Taupin, the duo launched 'Elton John: The Cut,' in partnership with YouTube.
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Photo by Ben Colen This week will see the release of Aesop Rock's The Impossible Kid, the first solo album from the hip-hop lyricist since 2012's Skelethon.
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M. McFarland Sadie Dupuis, the whip-smart lyricist and frontwoman of Speedy Ortiz, wanted to write an album where she was the only person responsible for every creative decision.
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"The things that I believe in that this candidate doesn't means we're going to have to fight for them," the award-winning lyricist told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.
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Last summer, the original writing team of the composer-lyricist Joe Iconis and book-writer Joe Tracz was replaced, amicably and because of scheduling conflicts, according to Mr. McCollum.
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Ms. Madden, a gifted wordsmith, was recruited by her friend Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist, to create the New York Magazine Competition, which made its debut in 383.
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It was because of my friend—who would give everything for Rayados—I was able to meet up with Código, the lyricist and the creative half of Tu Fazo.
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Singer/lyricist Eugene Robinson and guitarist/composer Niko Wenner—two former members of the San Francisco hardcore band Whipping Boy—formed Oxbow in 23, initially as a recording project.
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Van Etten is a deft and sophisticated lyricist, and she's especially affecting when she abandons or dismantles language and narrative entirely, slipping into a hyper-emotive, almost nonsensical state.
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Her father, Robert, was a lyricist, and her mother, Cécile Berthier, was the daughter of a founder of the children's choir Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois.
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The first to fall for me was at the bottom, 106A, the "American composer and lyricist" with the arrow facing down/[Next] indicator at the start of the clue.
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The world premiere of a musical version of the DreamWorks movie "The Prince of Egypt," by the "Wicked" composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, will open at TheatreWorks this fall.
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Robert HunterHunter was a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, who wrote the words to some of the band's most iconic songs, "Ripple" and "Truckin'" being just two of those.
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By that point, Bernstein had written lyrics to a number of songs, but he quickly understood that Sondheim was the superior lyricist and was eager to work with him.
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At least unlike the "Superstar" lyricist Tim Rice, who could not share notes with the Bible's authors, he had a direct line to his source material in Mr. Rubin.
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In 85033, the internet activist and former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow famously declared to the governments of the world that they would have "no sovereignty" in cyberspace.
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All of the songs on the record were written and produced by Morrison, 74, except for "If We Wait for Mountains," which was co-written with lyricist Don Black.
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They were chosen by a panel consisting of the actress Alison Fraser, the composer-lyricist Amanda Green and Eric Schaeffer, the artistic director of the Signature Theater in Virginia.
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The venue formerly known as the Mark Hellinger Theater — now operating as the Times Square Church — was the site of the librettist and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner's greatest triumph.
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It is far and away his best work yet, a focused distillation of both his musical roots as a skull-cracking lyricist and the woozier melodies of trap's current incarnation.
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Struggling to find the confidence to write her own lyrics, she worked with English lyricist Jarvis Cocker on "5:55", her 2006 record, and Beck, an American musician, on "IRM".
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STEVE LIESMAN: Am I right that you were just a little late because you were meeting with the lyricist for the musical that's going to be made with your tenureship?
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And he was a candid and seemingly boundless lyricist, writing about everything from money and fame, to love and sex, to addiction and loss with a clever, self-aware sensibility.
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Pitchfork published some of the most epic rhymes by the diminutive, 69-year-old rapper and lyricist who spit serious magic on the mic before dying of complications from diabetes.
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I will say, you can't be a great lyricist… If you're tapping into all this stuff, it can be challenging to be graceful in every other aspect of your life.
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Though the LP is full of such examples, "Dull Me Line," the song on I'm Bad Now that's premiering above, is a perfect representation of Chapman's charm as a lyricist.
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The only lyricist I can place him with would be John K. Samson of The Weakerthans / ex-Propagandhi in their ways of painting you pictures in songs with such precision.
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Take latest single "Stick In A Five And Go" where lyricist and singer Jason Williamson tells the story of tracking down an online Twitter troll and paying him a visit.
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He alludes to Gershwin's aversion to commitment and his loneliness, and explores his relationship with his older brother, the lyricist Ira Gershwin, a vital collaborator on many works (including "Porgy").
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