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Kara DioGuardi
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Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi (born December 9, 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, and singer who has contributed to long list of internationally successful popular songs.
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Raised in New England, New York State, (her father is Joseph J. DioGuardi, a former congressman), DioGuardi worked in the editorial and marketing departments of Billboard Magazine after completing a political science degree at Duke University in 1993. During this period, she collaborated with recording engineer Jon Wolfson to create independent recordings under the name MaD DoLL (1999-2001).
While her early solo and band efforts did not result in commercial successes, she became a much-sought songwriter, writing or co-writing many international hit songs from 2000 to today (see discography below). The majority of her songs have been recorded by American females (Ashley Tisdale, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Christina Aguilera, Anastacia, P!nk, Lindsay Lohan, Ashlee Simpson, Paris Hilton and others) with a significant minority recorded by Australian females (Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem, The Veronicas and others). She also has a song on Canadian singer Avril Lavigne's upcoming album The Best Damn Thing. Being a frequent collaborater with Hilary Duff, she co-wrote 12 out of the 14 songs on Duff's fourth and highly anticipated album Dignity with Miss Duff herself.
Now Kara is working on some tracks for Britney Spears.
DioGuardi can also be heard performing backup vocals on some of these recordings. Notable writing collaborators include Greg Wells, John Shanks, Guy Chambers and Steve Morales.
In July 2006, a one-hour VH1 movie for Platinum Weird, a controversial collaboration between DioGuardi and Dave Stewart which is being marketed as an elaborate hoax,[1][2] was aired, accompanied by a three-song EP. The album was further promoted by a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites, some of which registered by the New Media Department of Interscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com,[3][4][5] and related false documents for the "lost" group. The album was released in October, 2006.
Also in July 2006, she appeared as one of the judges on the ABC/CBC television show The One: Making a Music Star.[6] The show was cancelled after two weeks. Dioguardi described the series as "quite a disaster", citing poor sound in the broadcasts and confusing promotion. Even her own impression before being hired was that "The One" was to be a dance show rather than a music competition.[7]
- MaD DoLL
- Platinum Weird
- Anastacia ("Welcome to My Truth", "Get Ready", "I Believe in You", "Pretty Little Dum Dum", "I Do", "Seasons Change", "Rearview", "Where Do I Belong", "I Belong to You", and "The Saddest Part")
- Avril Lavigne ("Runaway")
- Ashlee Simpson ("Pieces of Me", and co-wrote all of I Am Me, as well as other tracks from "Autobiography")
- Ashley Tisdale ("Love Me For Me"," Be Good To Me "and others)
- Bardot ("Girls Do, Boy's Don't")
- Becky Baeling ("Take It Away")
- Bo Bice ("The Real Thing", "Remember Me", and "It's My Life")
- Britney Spears ("Brave New Girl")
- Céline Dion ("Right in Front of You", "Sorry for Love", and "One Heart")
- Cherie ("I'm Ready")
- Christina Aguilera ("Makes Me Wanna Pray", "Ain't No Other Man", and all of the tracks on Disc 1 of Back to Basics except "Here to Stay", as well as others)
- Clay Aiken ("The Way")
- Delta Goodrem ("Predictable")
- Diana DeGarmo ("Blue Skies" and others)
- Eden's Crush ("Two Way")
- Enrique Iglesias ("Escape")
- Eva Avila ("Not So Different")
- Gwen Stefani ("Rich Girl")
- Hilary Duff ("Come Clean", "Supergirl", "Fly", "So Yesterday", and co-writer of the entire album Dignity except for the song "Gypsy Woman")
- Jessica Simpson ("A Little Bit")
- Jesse McCartney ("Anybody")
- Jewel ("Good Day")
- Katharine McPhee ("Neglected", "Home", and More)
- Kelly Clarkson ("Walk Away", "Gone", "Where Is Your Heart", "You Found Me", "I Hate Myself for Losing You" and "Hear Me")
- Kelly Osbourne ("Shut Up")
- Kylie Minogue ("Spinning Around")
- Laura Pausini ("I Need Love")
- Lindsay Lohan ("Over", "First", and co-wrote all the original tracks off A Little More Personal, and others)
- Lisa Stansfield ("Treat Me Like a Woman")
- Natalie Imbruglia ("Starting Today", "Perfectly", "On the Run", "With or Without You")
- Natasha Bedingfield ("Peace of Me")
- Nicole Scherzinger ("With You")
- P!nk ("Heartbreaker")
- Paris Hilton ("I Want You", "Screwed", "Jealousy", and "Not Leaving Without You")
- Rachel Stevens ("Queen")
- Raven Symone ("Backflip", "What Is Love?" and others)
- Ricky Martin ("One Night Man")
- Ryan Cabrera ("She's" and "Photo")
- Thalía ("Baby, I'm In Love", "Alguien Real" and others)
- The Pussycat Dolls ("Beep", "I Don't Need a Man", "Flirt")
- The Veronicas ("Nobody Wins")
- ^ Platinum Weirdo Dave Stewart Is Having Acid Flashbacks. psychoPEDIA Daily News (2006-07-05). Retrieved on July 10, 2006.
- ^ Lee, Chris. "Fact or fiction? It can get a bit Weird", Los Angeles Times, 2006-06-05, p. E1. Retrieved on June 5, 2006.
- ^ weirdos.info WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
- ^ weirdshit.biz WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com), the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
- ^ platinumweirdos.com WHOIS record. Hosted on 216.193.195.52 (iscopelvw.fullerene.com) the same server as interscope.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-06
- ^ "The One: Making of a Music Star. ABC. Retrieved on July 18, 2006.
- ^ Silnicki, Graham. "ABC Cancels 'The One;' Judge Kara DioGuardi Speaks Out", andPOP, 2006-07-28. Retrieved on July 29, 2006.
- Widran, Jonathan. Kara DioGuardi Co-Writes Top Hits for Ashlee Simpson, Hilary Duff and Enrique Iglesias. SongwriterUniverse Magazine. Retrieved on December 14, 2004.
- Reynolds, J.R.. On the Scene: Kara DioGuardi. BMI MusicWorld. Retrieved on December 14, 2004.
- Lee, Chris. "Spinning all that angst into pop gold. Lindsay. Hilary. Celine. Pink. Kara DioGuardi's first-person songs pushed them all up the charts. And now it's her turn to shout.", Los Angeles Times, 2005-12-25, p. E1.