Dann Gallucci, who has worked with Modest Mouse and Cold War Kids.Emily Warren, Writer for Dua Lipa and The Chainsmokers.Jason Blume, who wrote hits for Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.To learn how to become a Songwriter, we talked to several Songwriters working in various genres: There are as many kinds of Songwriters as there are people writing songs, and Songwriters have unique opportunities to put their personal stamp on the music and entertainment industries. Often, Songwriters write both the lyrics and melody for a song. Successful Songwriters might have their songs placed in movies, video games, or TV shows, and many Songwriters have found success writing for Broadway musicals and even advertising music. Many Songwriters specialize in a particular genre or style, while some others cross over between many styles of music. Listeners can find well-crafted songs with hooks in many genres, such as country, rock, jazz, blues, funk, rap, reggae, soul, R&B, or hip-hop. These hooks combine melody and lyrics in a way specially designed to be memorable to listeners so that they will want to listen to the songs over and over. Most popular Songwriters try to write hits, using “hooks” that stick in the memory of the listener. Other Songwriters toil away in relative obscurity, although they might still be able to earn a great living writing songs for other artists to record and perform, and for placement in films, TV, or advertising ( jingles). Everyone knows their music, mostly, and could name (or even sing) some of their best-known songs. There are many examples of successful Singer-Songwriters and songwriting teams who have become popular household names. Songwriters also work closely with Music Producers, Artist Relations Representative, and A&R professionals to write, record, and perform songs intended to be hits. Many Songwriters write songs for other artists to perform, while Singer-Songwriters perform their own songs, whether solo or with a band. In today’s music industry, it’s common for Songwriters to work in teams varying in size from two to nine or more individuals. In May, 2017, Spektor was honored with the Purchase College President’s Award for Distinguished Alumni.Songwriters compose songs by writing chord progressions, melodies, and lyrics. She writes and performs original music for numerous films, television shows and commercials, most notably your original “You’ve Got Time” theme song for the Netflix show Orange is the New Black, nominated in 2014 for a Grammy award, and winner of the Broadcast Music Streaming Media Award for the last four years in a row. Spektor has performed in some of the world’s most acclaimed venues, including the White House, Radio City Music Hall, the music festivals Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, London’s Hyde Park and Royal Albert Hall, and Sydney’s Opera House on television shows like Stephen Colbert and Saturday Night Live, and most importantly at our Performing Arts Center, where, in 2007, she gave a benefit concert for our students, Spektor signed with Sire Records in 2004, upon release of her third of now seven studio albums, entitled Soviet Kitsch her fourth album in 2006, Begin to Hope, went Gold peaking at number 20 on the Billboard 200, and was nominated for the Short List Music Prize and All The Rowboats, a video of a single from her sixth album What We Saw From The Cheap Seats was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award. During her senior year, Spektor self-published her first CD 11:11 and by 2003, she was touring nationally and internationally as the opening act for The Strokes and Kings of Leon. In a songwriting class during her freshman year, her first original song assignment greatly impressed the class of 80 students, foretelling the gifted musician developing in our midst. She graduated with a bachelor of music in studio composition, and established herself as a pure and unique voice in music by merging early classical piano training with an affinity for pop, jazz, soul, and independent rock styles. She had emigrated with her family to New York City from the Soviet Union nine years earlier as religious and political refugees. A celebrated Indie singer-songwriter and pianist, graduated cum laude from the Conservatory of Music (studio composition program) in 2001.
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