![]() Nevertheless, this was all prelude to a decade where she dominated mainstream pop with immaculately sculpted love tunes and overblown power ballads, signatures that were evident whether her compositions were recorded by pop divas, hard rockers, soul singers, or country vocalists. It was the 1985 DeBarge smash "The Rhythm of the Night" that established Warren as a powerhouse songwriter, while Starship's 1987 number one "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" gave her the first of 13 Academy Award nominations. 1, a 2021 record that arrived nearly 40 years after Laura Branigan brought the songwriter's "Solitaire" into the Top Ten in 1982. Warren's success extended well into the 2020s when she launched her own performing career with Diane Warren: The Cave Sessions, Vol. Diane Warren's songbook defined the sound of adult contemporary and adult-oriented R&B of the late 1980s and the '90s.
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