Name	Carole Bayer Sager
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	8 March 1947
Place of Birth	New York, USA
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Born and raised in New York Carole Bayer Sager showed a knack on writing poems as a child and made the move to songwriting while in high school. By age 19, she had scored a No. 1 hit with “A Groovy Kind Of Love,” a co-written song recorded by the English foray group The Mindbenders. It was reintroduced by Phil Collins 23 years later, again reached No. 1, this time becoming the most radio hit of 1990, and in 1993, Neil Diamond included this track on his album, Up On The Roof.

In the early 1970s, Sager began an ongoing partnership with Melissa Manchester that produced numerous classic Sager-Manchester songs and resulted in a friendship that still continues. During that same period, she also found herself working with Peter Allen, whose songwriting skills, she believes, contributed to many of her best songs. Sager’s partnership with composer Marvin Hamlicsh in “Nobody Does It Better,” taken from The Spy Who Loved Me soundtrack (1977), handed her a 1978 Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Original Song and a Golden Globe nod for Best Original Song - Motion Picture.

Already made a name for herself as a gifted songwriter, Sager displayed her singing talents by launching her self-titled debut album in 1977 which produced an international hit,” You’re Moving Out Today.” The album itself received platinum certification in many countries, including England, Germany and Australia. She followed it up with her second recording, Too, in 1978 and her third and last album, Sometimes Late at Night, in 1979. The letter had smash hit track “Stronger Than Before” (later, Chaka Kahn and Dionne Warwick recorded).

Reuniting with Hamlisch, Sager again won a number of recognition when her song,” Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love),” received another Oscar and Golden Globe nods in 1980. Additionally, the soundtrack album garnered the successful songwriter a 1980 Grammy nomination for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special. In the meantime, the two also received another Golden Globe nomination for their fine work in “Better Than Ever,” a themed song for the 1979 movie Starting Over.

However, it was not until 1981 that Sager reached a true stardom with the Oscar-winning song for Best Music, Original Song “Best That You Can Do” from the Steve Gordon-helmed movie Arthur. Co-written with Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach and Christopher Cross, the song also garnered Sager the 1982 Golden Globe’s Best Original Song as well as the 1991 ASCAP’s Most Performed Feature Film Standards.

Continuing her success, Sager picked up Golden Globe nods for Best Original Song - Motion Picture for songs “Making Love” from the 1982 movie of the same name, and “They Don’t Make Them Like They Used to” from the motion picture Tough Guys (1986). In 1987, she took home a Grammy for Song of the Year for “That’s What Friends Are For,” a No. 1 hit recorded by Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Dionne Warwick and Gladys Knight and co-written with husband Burt Bacharach. “That’s What Friends Are For” was originally written for the 1982 movie Night Shift and recorded for the film by Rod Steward. Sager and her husband contributed their publishing monies from the song to the American Foundation for AIDS Research. That same year, Sager and her husband also had the Grammy nominee and No. 1 hit “On My Own.”

During the 1990s, Sager’s creative songwriting collaborations earned her back-to-back Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for “The Day I Fall in Love” from the 1993 film Beethoven’s 2nd and “Look What Love Has Done” from the feature film Junior (1994). The first song also earned her a Grammy nod for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television. In 1996, Sager’s song, “On My Own” (now recorded by Reba McEntire with Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride and Linda Davis), received a Grammy nomination for best Country Collaboration With Vocals. Sager rounded out the decade with luminous work on the Golden Globe and Oscar winner song for Best Original Song - Motion Picture, “The Prayer,” from the movie Quest for Camelot. Also, she was nominated for a Golden Satellite for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture for “Anyone At All” from the 1998 movie You’ve Got Mail.

With such great accomplishments, Sager was honored with a Hollywood Film Festival for Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting in 2002. Aside from her work on film, Sager has also written songs for the Tony Award-winning musical, “They’re Playing Our Song,” which she co-wrote with Marvin Hamlisch and Neil Simon, and Bob Fosse’s Broadway musicals, “All That Jazz and Dancin.” She is currently dedicating plenty of her time to an Internet network she co-formed with Kenneth Edmonds and David Foster. The website gives access and opportunities, recording contracts and publishing deals to aspirant artists and songwriters all over the world.