Songwriters biography for kids
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From today's perspective, the category seems almost odd. Singer-Songwriter? If you wrote it, you may as well sing it, right? But this is, in many ways, a line of thought that started with the Beatles and hit a high point with the Singer-Songwriters. Go back a few years before the Beatles and the tasks of writing, singing, and playing the instruments on a recording were typically divided amongst distinct groups. Buddy Holly, singing and performing his own material, was an anomaly; the Beatles helped make Holly's approach the norm. In their wake came a group of artists who made the fact that they "did their own stuff" the defining feature.
James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, John Prine — these names are among the many that recur in lists of the Singer-Songwriters. Different from the Beatles, they didn't tend to present as a group. They often had groups, but when one went to see them perform, it was to see the individual —
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Songwriter facts for kids
A songwriter is a writer who creates songs. A songwriter generally writes songs for popular music, rather than art songs or classical music. Many songwriters are also singers, and perform the songs they write - they are called singer-songwriters. Other songwriters have their songs performed by other singers.
History
The history of writing songs is thousands of years old. Scholars believe that men and women may have created and sung songs even at the time of prehistory. Many modern bands have one or two members who write songs for the band. Others have more members contribute songs, or give the whole band credit for writing. Others perform songs by outside writers.
Famous songwriters
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Images for kids
Songwriting partners Rodgers and Hart working on a song in 1936
See also
In Spanish: Compositor de canciones para niños