We want to recognize the professional, hardworking songwriters who do this for a living.' As Evan Bogart, Chair of the Songwriters & Composers Wing, recently toldput it to : 'We're looking for which songwriters have demonstrated, first and foremost, that they're considered a songwriter first by the music community.

(As per the latter, he co-wrote 'Boyfriends' on Harry's House, which was crowned Album Of The Year at the 2023 GRAMMYs.)Īnd at said ceremony, he received a historic honor - the first-ever golden gramophone for Songwriter Of The Year. Since that exchange, Jesso has written with a litany of contemporary stars: John Legend, Shawn Mendes, Pink, Haim, Harry Styles - the list goes on. And I just felt like there's been a different one of those lessons at every step of the way where I'm just like, Man, I think this is what I got to do, and then I just figure it out.' 'I think I just put the book away from that point on and was like, OK, I don't need the books. 'She was like, 'Why are you reading that?' and I was like, 'I honestly don't know,'' Jesso remembers with a laugh. Just then, a voice: 'What the hell are you doing?' He glanced up. But in an effort to take his young career seriously - that of writing behind the curtain for the stars - he cracked open the book at a café. Not that he needed to figure out how to break into the mainstream: he had already written a tune with Sia and Adele that cracked the Billboard Hot 100. wanted to know how to write a hit song, so he read How to Write a Hit Song.

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