Diane Eve Warren was born on September 7,1956 and is an American songwriter.
27 Facts About Diane Warren
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Diane Warren 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.
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Diane Warren has been rated the third most successful female artist in the UK.
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Diane Warren has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Diane Warren has been nominated for 14 competitive Academy Award nominations without a win; she received an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2022.
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Diane Warren, the youngest of three daughters, was born to David, an insurance salesman, and Flora Diane Warren, in the Los Angeles community of Van Nuys, where she said she felt misunderstood and "alienated" as a child growing up.
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Diane Warren says she was rebellious as a child and told NPR's Scott Simon that she got into trouble and ran away as a teen but returned because she missed her cat.
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Diane Warren was influenced by music by her parents and her sisters, who would play music.
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Diane Warren wrote Celine Dion's 1996 song "Because You Loved Me" as a tribute to her father for his encouragement.
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Diane Warren attended Los Angeles Pierce College and graduated from California State University, Northridge in 1978, but largely considered her education a waste as she focused most of her time on improving her songwriting skills instead of on her education.
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Diane Warren's first hit was "Solitaire", which Laura Branigan took to No 7 in the US pop charts in 1983.
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Diane Warren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001.
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Diane Warren's songs have been covered by artists including Joe Cocker, Weezer, Edwin McCain, Milli Vanilli, Mark Chesnutt, and Sara Evans.
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Diane Warren wrote three songs for Carrie Underwood's debut album, Some Hearts that were "Lessons Learned", "Whenever You Remember" and the title track, originally written for Marshall Crenshaw.
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In 2009, Diane Warren co-wrote the United Kingdom's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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In 2010, Diane Warren partnered with Avon Products as a celebrity judge for Avon Voices, Avon's global online singing talent search for women and songwriting competition for men and women.
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Diane Warren has been recognized six times as ASCAP Songwriter of the Year and four times as Billboard's Songwriter of the Year.
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In 2012, Diane Warren wrote the song "Counterfeit" for Tulisa's debut solo album The Female Boss.
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Diane Warren wrote Paloma Faith's 2014 song "Only Love Can Hurt Like This".
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Diane Warren is the first songwriter in the history of Billboard magazine to have seven hits, all by different artists, on the singles chart at the same time.
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Diane Warren has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Diane Warren has never married, and does not think of herself as a person of commitment.
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In 1994, Diane Warren's house was damaged by the Northridge earthquake, causing her to be miserable and homeless, drifting from hotels to rental houses.
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Diane Warren has said that therapy helped her with songwriting.
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Diane Warren did allow part of a 2016 interview with CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent Ben Tracy to be taped in the office.
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Diane Warren is autistic and believes her condition made her a better songwriter.
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Diane Warren has penned nine No 1 and 32 top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since 1983.