singer-songwriter

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Unlike his Brill Building peer Carole King — he wrote “Oh! Carol,” his first big hit, about her — Sedaka wasn’t able to refashion himself as a hip singer-songwriter.

From Los Angeles Times

By the dawn of the ’70s, he realized that the times had changed around him: “The era of the singer-songwriter had begun and I was being left behind. I needed to be part of it. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted it with a vengeance!”

From Los Angeles Times

Encouraged, the singer-songwriter reunited with 10cc in 1973 for “The Tra-La-La Days are Over,” an album that featured the bubbly “Love Will Keep Us Together.”

From Los Angeles Times

American singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who wrote and performed hits through the 1950's and 60's, including Oh!

From BBC

The 35-year-old singer-songwriter—born to a Japanese mother and an American father and performing under a variation of her first name—came up at a time when streaming allowed her to reach an audience directly, and the intensity of her music made her something of an unwitting social-media celebrity.

From The Wall Street Journal