Noam Bettan, Israel’s Eurovision candidate who took second place in the competition, sang in three languages, and chose to start his performance in Hebrew. Meanwhile, the winner — from Bulgaria — sang ...

Harry O’Connor has been announced as the winner of the West Wicklow Chamber Festival’s emerging composer competition, and ...

David Allan Coe, the country singer-songwriter who wrote the working class anthem “Take This Job and Shove It″ and had hits with “You Never Even Called Me By My Name” and “The Ride” among others, has ...

Taylor Swift revealed in a new interview with the New York Times Magazine that she wrote her hit 2008 song “Love Story” when she clashed with her parents, Scott and Andrea Swift, over an older man. “I ...

Test your knowledge of some of our songwriters’ biggest hits. By Renan Borelli Many of the artists on our 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters list have excelled at writing hits for other people.

The Beatles released 229 songs during their decade as a band. The vast majority of Beatles tunes were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with 22 credited to guitarist George Harrison and only ...

Máire Philomena Ní Bhraonáin, born on ­August 4, 1952, and later known as Moya Brennan, was a ground-breaking folk singer who made an international reputation for herself and her extended family band, ...

Don Schlitz, a hit songwriter whose solo composition “The Gambler” became a crossover smash for Kenny Rogers in 1978, died Thursday. He was 73. No cause was given, but a statement announcing his death ...

When analyzing the oldest books of the Bible, scholars have identified the work of various writers and editors. But how did the final version come to be? THE HEBREW BIBLEThis ancient scroll of the ...

Train Wreck Records, which Taylor founded in 1997, confirmed his death. The songwriter is survived by his wife, children and brother, actor Jon Voight Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...

Chip Taylor, the Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee who is best known for writing the classic hits “Angel of the Morning” and “Wild Thing,” died Monday at age 86. The death was reported on social media ...

Michael Martin Murphey doesn’t just sing about the cowboy way—he lives it. In addition to releasing hit singles like “Wildfire” and “Carolina in the Pines”, Murphey has long championed western ...