Will Jennings

American songwriter and producer

Born: 27th June 1944 Kilgore, Texas, USA

Died: 6th September 2024 Tyler, Texas, USA

Award-winning songwriter, active since the mid-1970s. Among his best known lyrics are [a=The Crusaders]' [i]Street Life[/i] (1979), [a=Joe Cocker] & [a=Jennifer Warnes]' [i]Up Where We Belong[/i] (1982), [a=Eric Clapton]'s [i]Tears In Heaven[/i] (1993) and [a=Céline Dion]'s [i]My Heart Will Go On[/i] (1997).

He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006.