The 25th of April is a special day for songwriter Diane Warren. Not just because it’s the Oscars and she’s nominated for her 12th Best Song in a row for “Io Sì (Seen)” from the Netflix Sophie Loren movie The Life Ahead, but it’s Warren’s late father’s birthday.“He would have been 105 years old.
He was the first to believe in me. He’d take me to publishers when I was 15,” she tells us on the latest Crew Call podcast about the potential good luck day.
She joins us with the song’s co-lyricist, Italian Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Laura Pausini to talk about how they collaborated on the song, and what spoke to them in the Edoardo Ponti-directed movie about an elderly Holocaust survivor and her oversee of the street kid who robbed her.
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