Diana Williamson has written 2 x #3 Billboard Hot Club chart singles "Freak Like Me" and "Awakening". Her versatile writing style has garnered her cuts on blues albums (the single for Jimmy Rip's debut record), producer for Mick Jagger, Jerry Lee Lewis and solo artist, jazz albums (#1 Indian artist Bappi Lahiri's cd "Walking on Love Street") and pop albums (Warner Brother's artist Judith Lefeber) to name a few.
Her songs have premiered on "The Tonight Show", Warner Brothers, NBC, ABC, MTV, Disney, HBO, RCA, EMI, Buddah Bar and many others. She won "Female Singer Songwriter of the Year at the Los Angeles Music Awards" and has received 2 Canadian Heritage Factor Grants.
She continues to cowrite with other hit writers to the stars; Narada Michael Walden (Aretha, Whitney, Mariah), Eddie Galan (High School Musical, Hannah Montana), John Capek (Rod Stewart, Bonnie Raitt, Cher) Alan Rich & Judd Friedman (Whitney, Streisand, Barry Coffing (#1 How do you talk to an Angel), Jay Pugh (Run DMC), Marc Tanner (Jann Arden, Shawn Colvin, The Nelsons, The Calling), Fontaine Brown (Emmylou Harris), Bruce Sugar (Ringo, Ozzie, Joe Walsh), EMI artist Ricky Fante, #1 UK writer Peter Wright, Peter Mansson (Mandy Moore, Blue), Kevin Malpass (Melanie B), Ellis Hall (Tower of Power), Jeff Lorber, etc..
She created the Love Song to New Orleans International Song Contest and the International Christmas song Contest, where she produced Temptation Ali Woodson for the single "A Christmas to Remember" which was profiled in the Queen Latifah movie "A Perfect Holiday".
Diana has spoken on panels at the MI Institute of Music and for the Nashville Publishers Association. She's presently a freelance music reviewer for Broadjam, one of the largest independent music communities in the world. Her lyrics have been profiled in hit writer John Capek's "How to write a hit song without really Trying" and she helped update Jay Warner's 2nd edition of "How to have your hit song Published".
She has placed songs in tv shows: NBC SPORTS, ABC ONE LIFE TO LIVE, MTV HITS, MTV LOGO, MUSIC CHOICE, EXTRA, CENTRIC HITS, ESCANDALO TV, UNIVISION, NEWNOWNEXTPOPLAB, DISNEY Z GAMES, HBO LARRY SANDERS, GLOBAL'S BOMB GIRLS, PIMP MY RIDE, MAN AND WIFE, MADE, NEXT, TAKING THE STAGE, CHOOSE OR LOSE WITH KANYE, DISASTER DATE, ROCK DINNER, TRUE LIFE, JERSEY SHORE, FOOTBALL WIVES, DO IT FOR THE BAND THE WOMEN OF SUNSET STRIP (VH1 CLASSIC), MAKING HIS BAND, BASKETBALL WIVES 1 & 2, Z GAMES, PIMPEANDO, MAKING THE BAND, TOOL ACADEMY, PARENTAL CONTROL, TAKING THE STAGE
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