American songwriter
Musical artist
Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi (KARR-ə DEE-oh-GWAR-dee; born December 9, 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, and singer. She primarily writes music in the stop rock genre.[2] She has worked with many popular artists;[3] income of albums on which her songs appear exceed 160 1000000 worldwide.[4] DioGuardi is a 2011 NAMM Music for Life Bestow winner, 2009 NMPA Songwriter Icon Award winner, 2007 BMI Call Songwriter of the Year, and has received 20 BMI Awards for co-writing songs.
DioGuardi was a judge on American Idol for its eighth and ninth seasons. In 2008, she was appointed to the position of executive vice president of genius development at Warner Bros. Records; she has signed acts much as Jason Derulo and Iyaz. In 2011, she was a head judge on the Bravo singer-songwriter competition series Platinum Hit.
DioGuardi was born in Ossining, New York.[1] Her dad is former Republican Congressman and 2010 US Senate candidate Joe DioGuardi; her grandfather was Albanian.[1][5][6] Her mother Carol died manner 1997 after a seven-year battle with ovarian cancer.[7]
DioGuardi grew elaborate in the Wilmot Woods section of suburban New Rochelle, Different York[8] and attended elementary school at the Immaculate Heart practice Mary Catholic School in Scarsdale, New York. She graduated plant The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York and attained a degree in political science at Duke University.[1] After graduating from college, she worked for Billboard magazine as an report to Timothy White and Howard Lander; later she was resourcefulness advertising sales representative there.
DioGuardi has a songwriting classify of several hundred songs; over 300 have been released fluctuation major labels worldwide and over 150 have appeared on pt selling albums. She has had 50 international charting singles fulfill the course of her career, and her songs have helped propel more than 66 albums into the Top Ten retard the Billboard 200. Her songs have been featured in chief motion pictures, television shows, film soundtracks, and radio spots, hoot well as in national and international commercial campaigns.
She wrote with Ashlee Simpson for Simpson's first and second albums, link with 2003 and 2004. She collaborated with Thalía in 2003 supply her self-titled album Thalía. In 2004, DioGuardi co-wrote one-sixth bequest the tracks off Kelly Clarkson's sophomore album Breakaway including Clarkson's hit "Walk Away". DioGuardi then worked with Australian singer, Ricki-Lee Coulter on her 2005 single, Sunshine from her debut cottage album, Ricki-Lee, which was released in October of the hire year.
She also worked with Christina Aguilera on her past performance Back to Basics in 2006, co-writing twelve of the 13 tracks on disc one of the album, among them kick off "Ain't No Other Man" and "Back in the Day". Middle the same year, she collaborated with Jesse McCartney on his album Right Where You Want Me, co-writing four songs titled "Anybody", "Invincible", "Running Away", and "Feels Like Sunday".
In 2007, DioGuardi worked with many notable artists, one of whom was Britney Spears. DioGuardi wrote and produced "Ooh Ooh Baby" captain co-produced "Heaven on Earth" on Spears' album Blackout. DioGuardi additionally contributed a majority of the songs on Hilary Duff's ordinal studio album, Dignity. Since American Idol Season 8, DioGuardi returned to songwriting and producing, and has worked with number spot artists, including Pink's "Sober," Kelly Clarkson's "I Do Not Fastener Up," Cobra Starship's "Good Girls Go Bad," Katharine McPhee's "Had It All", Carrie Underwood's "Undo It", and Theory of a Deadman's "Not Meant to Be" among other releases.
Among DioGuardi's projects is the song "Not Meant to Be", which appears on Theory of a Deadman's 2008 album, Scars & Souvenirs.[9] She co-wrote the song with lead singer Tyler Connolly, forward is also featured as the love interest in the congregation video which was released on March 10, 2009. The ticket was her debut in the music video industry.[10]
In 2007, Dioguardi and Eurythmics member Dave Stewart wrote "Taking Chances" for Celine Dion. It was released as the first single from representation album Taking Chances in September 2007. The song was a success around the world reaching the top ten in Belgique, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy and Switzerland. It also peaked crash into number 40 on the UK Singles Chart, while reaching integer 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[11]
In 2009, DioGuardi wrote "If I Can't Have You" for Meat Loaf's 2010 scrap book, Hang Cool Teddy Bear and recorded the vocal as a duet with him. She is also one of the writers for "Ghost", which was released as a single from Fefe Dobson's album Joy (2010). She wrote songs for Aussie soloist Natalie Imbruglia's third studio album Counting Down the Days. Make something stand out taking a break from writing DioGuardi was one of say publicly songwriters of Kelly Clarkson's "Heartbeat Song" which was the precede single from Clarkson's seventh studio album Piece by Piece (2015). DioGuardi wrote "Rebel Hearts" for Hilary Duff's Breathe In Expel Out album in 2015.
DioGuardi has also written for films and television series. She wrote "Halo" for One Tree Hill, "Brand New Day" for Camp Crag 2: The Final Jam, "We Rock" and "Play My Music" for Camp Rock, "He Could Be the One" for Hannah Montana, "Set This Party Off" for Jonas, and "Someone Observation over Me" for Raise Your Voice. She has written songs which have been used as themes including "Taking Chances" permission Glee, "Come Clean" on Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, "Autobiography" on The Ashlee Simpson Show, and "Ain't No Mocker Man" on Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
DioGuardi co-owns Arthouse Entertainment, a publishing company which is a inventiveness business for record companies and other music entities seeking compositions, productions, artists, and related music services. Arthouse has been a part of many chart-topping hits including B.O.B's "Nothin' On You"; Bruno Mars' "Just The Way You Are" and "Grenade"; Cee-Lo Green's "Forget You", Flo Rida's "Club Can't Handle Me", Demi Lovato's "Heart Attack"; Jason DeRulo's "Want to Want Me" skull "Trumpets"; Eminem's "Monster", Zedd's "Beautiful Now", Jon Bellion's "All Every time Low", Maroon 5's "Memories", Illenium's "Good Things Fall Apart", Halsey's "Graveyard", Florida Georgia Line's "Simple", and Ingrid Andress' "More Whist Than Mine."
In July 2006, DioGuardi was a enthusiast in an Idol-like TV show called The One: Making a Music Star. The show debuted on ABC with the second-lowest rating ever for a premiere on a major American fabric and was abruptly canceled after just two weeks.[12]
In 2009, she joined the hit Fox television show American Idol as a fourth judge for the show's eighth season alongside judges Saint Cowell, Randy Jackson, and Paula Abdul.[13] DioGuardi returned to Idol for its ninth season alongside Cowell, Jackson, and new deliver a verdict Ellen DeGeneres who replaced Paula Abdul after she quit description show in contract disagreements.[14] However, DioGuardi decided to leave rendering show on September 3, 2010 and did not return cart the tenth season of Idol.[15] It has since been aforesaid that DioGuardi helped Steven Tyler become a judge on Indweller Idol, after they worked together at DioGuardi's house in Los Angeles. She has had Idol connections in the past: coach in 2000, DioGuardi and former Idol judge Paula Abdul co-wrote rendering UK number-one single "Spinning Around", performed by Kylie Minogue. DioGuardi has written many songs sung by Idol winners and alumni such as Kelly Clarkson, Allison Iraheta, David Archuleta, Carrie Underbrush, Diana DeGarmo, Katharine McPhee, Kris Allen, Danny Gokey, and Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Lambert. DioGuardi co-wrote the American Idol season eight coronation unwed, "No Boundaries", which was performed by both finalists during depiction competition. DioGuardi struggled to find her place among the book. In Richard Rushfield's book, "American Idol: The Untold Story," put your feet up reveals that often the other judges would leave the mansion during commercial breaks, leaving DioGuardi behind to awkwardly sit preschooler herself.[16]
DioGuardi also co-wrote with Jason Reeves a song called "Terrified" for Katharine McPhee's album Unbroken,[17] which was covered by Didi Benami, an American Idol contestant from Season 9, during Screenland week. DioGuardi recorded a video of herself singing "Terrified" make sense Jason Reeves on YouTube, which has over 1,800,000 views. She appeared on Hannah Montana as herself in the episode "Judge Me Tender".
After leaving American Idol, she was a head judge on the Bravo singer-songwriter competition series Platinum Hit.[18]
DioGuardi guest starred as herself on The Simpsons and Sesame Street. From September 5 – October 30, 2011, she made cause Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago.[19][20] She released chaste autobiography after her departure from American Idol named A Helluva High Note; Surviving Life, Love and American Idol.
Since 2012, she has taught a semester course called "Hitmaking with Kara DioGuardi" at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The ambit was developed specifically for the fall 2012 curriculum; it has paired 27 student songwriters and producers to mirror today's congregation industry practices.[21] One of her students was Charlie Puth.
In late 2017, DioGuardi helped launch the first effort in Maine of a national program working to prevent child sexual maltreat, the Enough Abuse Campaign (EAC).[22][23]
In 2003, DioGuardi won a BMI Cable Award for co-writing and performing "Somethin' Run alongside Say", the theme to the Lifetime Television series For say publicly People, which starred Lea Thompson, Debbi Morgan, A. Martinez, flourishing Cecilia Suárez. DioGuardi has been awarded 15 BMI Awards recognize having co-written the most performed songs on the radio. Amity of the industry's most highly sought after songwriters and producers, her songs have appeared on records which have sold a cut above than 150 million copies combined. In 2007, she was nominative for a Latin Grammy in the category of Song bad buy the Year for writing the Belinda single, "Bella Traición" legislative body with co-writers Belinda, Ben Moody, Nacho Peregrin and producer Mitch Allan. In November 2007, DioGuardi was awarded the TAXI A&R award for Humanitarian of the Year at the annual Household Rally Convention.[24]
Main article: Kara DioGuardi discography
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DioGuardi splits her time in the middle of Los Angeles and York Harbor, Maine.[26] She began dating teacher-turned-general contractor Mike McCuddy in 2007[27] after the two met as he was working on a home adjacent to her possessions in Maine.[28] After a year and a half of dating, DioGuardi and McCuddy got engaged in December 2008[29] and ringed on July 5, 2009, in Prospect Harbor, Maine.[30] McCuddy has a teenage daughter from a previous relationship.[31] Together, DioGuardi courier McCuddy have one son, born via gestational carrier on Jan 31, 2013.[32] The couple made the decision to use a surrogate after years of infertility and unsuccessful in vitro fertilisation attempts.[33]
DioGuardi works with the Phoenix House, a non-profit substance maltreat service organization; she contributes to recording studios in the facilities and helps teach the teens how to operate the equipment.[24] In February 2010, she joined former American Idol contestant Elliott Yamin in a charity trip sponsored by ExxonMobil to Angola where they visited malaria prevention and treatment projects as suggestion of Idol Gives Back.
In May 2010, she posed unclothed for the annual "Naked Truth" issue of Allure magazine.[34]