Wainwright is a Canadian sing-songwriter and composer who has released ten albums, won a Grammy Award, and contributed to numerous plays.
He sang beautifully and dramatically about what a lot of singer-songwriters sing about: love.
Elton John, the veteran British rocker, joined with his 21-year-old countryman Ed Sheeran, a precocious songwriter, to sing Mr. Sheeran's tender ode to a drug-addicted prostitute "The A Team".
HUNTINGTON Hard Luck Cafe: Mark Newman and Naomi Margolin, singing and songwriting duo, and Jerry DeMeo, singer-songwriter and guitarist.
He's one of the rare rock songwriters to sing about adult life, from disillusionment to divorce to the "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom" of Everclear's latest single, while his tunes revel in the blare of pop-punk and grunge.
Imagine a band whose vocals aren't just something to put up with because that's the songwriter singing.
"Strike up the band, we have survived," sings its other songwriter, Spencer Krug, in "Bang Your Drum".
During the interview (as he pretends to be interested that the songwriter sang falsetto on The Rubettes' Sugar Baby Love) you can see him questioning his own existence.
I'm grinning like a fool now". Next comes Carole King's Tapestry, on which the Brill Building songwriter sings her own compositions made famous by others.
A remake of the 1960 Mardi Gras standard, "Carnival Time" — heartily sung by its songwriter and original performer, Al Johnson — throws together brass-band horns, Latin percussion and a determinedly funky clavinet.
She is a high-minded pop-soul songwriter, singing about ambition and integrity; the album floats her supple, girlish voice among twinkling starscapes of electric piano and phantom choruses of herself overdubbed.
