Diane Warren

Diane Warren's songbook defined the sound of adult contemporary and adult-oriented R&B of the late '80s and the 1990s. Her success extended well into the 2020s when she launched her own performing career with The Cave Sessions, Vol. 1. It was the 1985 DeBarge smash "The Rhythm of the Night" that established Warren as a powerhouse songwriter, while Starship's 1987 number one "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" gave her the first of 13 Academy Award nominations. This was all prelude to a decade where she dominated mainstream pop with immaculately sculpted love tunes and overblown power ballads performed by the likes of Celine Dion, Toni Braxton, LeAnn Rimes, Brandy, and Aerosmith.