LONDON: If there was an award for not winning awards, Diane Warren would have won it.
The recording artist/songwriter is the most nominated woman in the history of the Academy Awards, and has lost out on the trophy 12 times or as she puts it, she has 12 no Oscar Awards.
Warren is releasing her debut album Friday, with collaborations from friends old and new, including Celine Dion, John Legend, Ty Dolla Sign plus a bringing together of rapper G-Eazy and guitar legend Santana. She said the pandemic spurred her on, working alone in her studio with no distractions. She adds no one was bothering me, all I did was annoy myself.
Another benefit of working during lockdown meant it was easy to track down her collaborators: Yeah, dont tell me youre too busy to get on a Zoom, come on. Youre sitting in your house, too, she said, smiling.
Warren, who won a Grammy Award for 1988’s Nothing’s Going to Stop Us Now, has penned global hits such as I Dont Want to Miss a Thing for Aerosmith and Un-Break My Heart for Toni Braxton. With her debut, Diane Warren: The Cave Sessions Vol. 1 Warren says this is the first time shes put her own name to the songs.
Why cant I be DJ Khaled of songwriters or Mark Ronson or Calvin Harris or all these people that are producers that do this, why cant I get together all kinds of people to feature on my record,” she said while explaining where the inspiration for the record came from.
Its kind of like casting, you know, casting a part that was really fun, she added.
The lead single Shes Fire features the unlikely combination of Santana and G-Eazy. Warren said when she wrote the music for the song, there was only one person she had in mind.
When I wrote the guitar part, that little riff at the end of the chorus, I heard Santana in my head. So I went to Santana, she said. She adds that G-Eazys voice on Shes Fire is amazing.
Warren says she already has enough music for a second Cave Sessions” volume.
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