Will Jennings
Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings ( * June 27, 1944 in Kilgore, Texas) is an American songwriter who is best known for his lyrics to Up Where We Belong and My Heart Will Go On.
Life
Jennings attended Stephen F. Austin State University, after graduating in 1967 he taught at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. In 1977, he co-wrote with composer Richard Kerr the number - one hit Looks Like We Made It for Barry Manilow. Two years later, both composed the title Somewhere in the Night with which Manilow was in 1978 placed at position nine on the Billboard Hot 100. 1981 Jennings was first nominated for an Oscar, he had to The Grand Finale contributed the text to Lalo Schifrin's music for the title People Alone from the soundtrack. That same year, Jennings worked with Steve Winwood at the album Arc of a Diver together, and was involved in most of the album tracks. The following year, Winwood Talking Back to the Night appeared with the hit single Valerie, who again was in the version of Eric Prydz in 2004 to be a hit. For his text to eingesungenen by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes Up Where We Belong from the movie An Officer and a Gentleman with Richard Gere and Debra Winger in the lead roles Jennings received his first Oscar in 1983. Furthermore, the title of the Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
1986 was characterized with the excellent with two Grammys Album Back In The High Life to further cooperation with Winwood, the title Higher Love reached position one on the Billboard charts. 1991 Jennings wrote along with Eric Clapton whose ballad Tears in Heaven, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy. Jennings wrote in 1997 together with the film composer James Horner for the movie Titanic the title My Heart Will Go On, which was interpreted by Céline Dion. The single reached in the U.S., the UK and Germany the top of the charts, the soundtrack album was able to keep a whole year in the German charts. Excellent title with the Oscar, the Golden Globe Award, a Golden Satellite Award, the ASCAP Award and the Grammy was. Since the early 1980s texted Jennings titles have been used in feature films. Some of these have been specifically written for the soundtrack, partly published titles have been added to the soundtrack. In particular, the success of Items Up Where We Belong and My Heart Will Go On was taken up again by their chart success for the soundtrack of later released movies.
In addition to his successful work in the film industry Jennings contributed lyrics for many artists at. These include Bon Jovi, Keith Jarrett, Whitney Houston, Roy Orbison and Otis Rush.