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12-Time Academy Nominee, Diane Warren, joins “Telling Story Through Song” Workshop

Warren’s song, Io Si, is up for the 2021 Academy Award for Best Song

David Paul Kirkpatrick
5 min readApr 20, 2021

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Written by Guest Blogger, Mariah Mayhugh

The Story Summit Writer’s School is thrilled to welcome songwriter Diane Warren to our upcoming and live “Telling Story Through Song” workshop. The workshop begins next Monday, April 26 and finishes on Friday, April 30. It is being conducted online. You can read more about it here.

Diane Warren’s songs have been featured in more than 100 motion pictures resulting in 12 Academy Award nominations, most recently for “Io Si (Seen)” performed by Laura Pausini for the Netflix film “The Life Ahead” starring Sophia Loren. Here is the music video of the song. It’s beautiful.

Diane’s songs have been sung by the most important musical artists of the modern era, including Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Lady Gaga, Cher, Jennifer Hudson, Justin Bieber and Aerosmith, among many others.

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David Paul Kirkpatrick
David Paul Kirkpatrick

Written by David Paul Kirkpatrick

Founder of Story Summit & MIT Center for Future Storytelling, Pres of Paramount Film Group, Production Chief of Disney Studios, optimist, author and teacher.

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