Jennings career, which spanned five decades, gained momentum in the mid-1970s when he teamed up with the composer Richard Kerr and wrote Barry Manilow’s hit “Looks like we made it”.
Jennings went on to write for a number of major artists such as BB King, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett and Roy Orbison.
Won both an Oscar and a Grammy
In 1983, Jennings won his first Oscar for the song “Up where we belong”, written for Taylor Hackford’s film “An Officer and a Gentleman”.
Eight years later, he won a Grammy and received a Golden Globe nomination for the lyrics to Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven,” about the death of Clapton’s four-year-old son, which was used as the theme song in the movie “Rush.”
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Wrote “My heart will go on”
The biggest success was “My heart will go on”, the theme of “Titanic”, which swept home an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award in 1998.
In 2006, Will Jennings was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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