* 1947 – Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger

* 1988 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( b. 1922 )

* 2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, and filmmaker from Assam ( b. 1926 )

He wrote lyrics for a number of tracks on the IAMX albums " Kiss + Swallow " and " The Alternative " and released the album All These Lines Make Noises in 2005 as singer / songwriter / lyricist with the band transporter.

** Mojo Nixon, American singer, lyricist and actor

* September 14 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer, composer, and lyricist ( d. 1977 )

** Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Mexican-American singer / lyricist

* December 2 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( Quartetto Cetra ) ( b. 1922 )

** Sayuri Katayama, Japanese actress, singer and lyricist

* June 24 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( d. 1988 )

* Shane MacGowan ( singer / lyricist for the Pogues )

Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, ( born 25 April 1958, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland ) is a Scottish singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion.

The band is loosely modelled on Pink Floyd or Fleetwood Mac although Banks has said, in a newspaper piece, that the character Weird was in part modeled on Fish, the ex-Marillion singer and lyricist.

Nico ( born Christa Päffgen ; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988 ) was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s.

Robert Anthony Plant, CBE ( born 20 August 1948 ) is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

Anka then underwent an intense collaboration with Italian musicians of the time, including composer / director Ennio Morricone, singer / songwriter Lucio Battisti and lyricist Mogol.

* Paul Banks, lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of the band Interpol, lived his childhood in Bloomfield Hills

* George M. Cohan, entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, director, and producer ( former resident )

* Marek Grechuta ( 1945 – 2006 )-was a Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and lyricist.

She lived 4 more years in which she tried several cures, including a 4 month-visit to a private clinic in Switzerland with her daughter, singer and lyricist Maria Nahima.

* June 24-Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( Quartetto Cetra ) ( d. 1988 )

Many well-known figures attended Lancing College, including novelists Tom Sharpe and Evelyn Waugh, lyricist Tim Rice and singer Peter Pears.

At Cairnduff ’ s suggestion, Milarky teamed up with two musicians he ’ d never worked with before – budding singer and lyricist Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill.

* July 4-Joe Young, US lyricist and singer ( d. 1939 )

Jimmy Witherspoon, Blues singer ( and a good one ), and the Ike Isaacs Trio, which has done such wonderful work for two afternoons now, helping him with the musical examples.

It is no common thing for a listener ( critical or otherwise ) to hear a singer `` live '' for the first time only after he has died.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace.

During the 1980s, Grant was also a backup singer for Bill Gaither.

That year, she also recorded a duet with singer Randy Stonehill for his Love Beyond Reason album, entitled " I Could Never Say Goodbye ", and recorded The Animals ' Christmas with Art Garfunkel.

The difficulty is heightened when songs merge, as in " Now "/" Later "/" Soon ", because all three have to be performed in the same key, limiting the ability to pick a comfortable key for each singer.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

The single featured vocals from session singer Kevin Glancy who would later be tried for fraud, before re-inventing himself as a Christian singer.

He sticks to no musical conventions, varying his riffs and rhythm and singing complex and expressive lyrics in a manner exceptional at the time for a " simple country blues singer.

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

Some nationwide celebrities might command some attention outside their own nation ; for example, the singer Lara Fabian is widely known in the French-speaking world, but only had a couple of Billboard hits in the U. S., whereas the francophone Canadian singer Celine Dion is well known in both the French-speaking world and in the U. S.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

The Chula is a song where the singer part is much bigger than the chorus response, usually eight singer verses for one chorus response, but the proportion may vary.

In 1983, Skyler Jett, replaced Lionel Richie as the lead singer for The Commodores, and toured the world and performed in over 32 countries in a two year span.