Madonna nominated for Songwriters Hall of Fame
The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced its slate of nominees to be elected for induction at its Annual Induction & Awards Gala on June 15, 2017, in New York City.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame is dedicated to recognizing the work and lives of those composers and lyricists who create music around the world. Eligible voting members will have until December 16, 2016 to turn in ballots with their choices of three nominees from a non-performing and two from a performing category.
The 2017 Performing Songwriters nominees are:
- Bryan Adams
- Shawn “Jay Z” Carter
- Peter Cetera, Robert Lamm & James Pankow (Chicago)
- Gloria Estefan
- David Gates (Bread)
- Vince Gill
- Cat Stevens (a/k/a Yusuf Islam)
- Robert “Kool” Bell, Ronald Bell & George Brown (Kool & The Gang)
- Jeff Lynne
- Madonna
- George Michael
- Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart
Here is the bio for Madonna on the songhall.com website:
Madonna could never have become a music icon without songs, and she wrote and produced most of them with estimable collaborators like Steve Bray, Patrick Leonard, Shep Pettibone, Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Rick Nowels, Nate Hills, Justin Timberlake and William Orbit – with whom she wrote the Grammy-winning Beautiful Stranger for the 1999 film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Other hits written or co-written by Madonna have become pop classics and include Into the Groove, Papa Don’t Preach, Like a Prayer, Vogue, Frozen, Music, Hung Up and 4 Minutes. With themes spanning everything from love and relationships to sexuality and AIDS, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has been recognized by Rolling Stone as “an exemplary songwriter with a gift for hooks and indelible lyrics.”
Key songs in the Madonna catalog include: * Everybody * Into The Groove * Like A Prayer * Material Girl * Vogue
