songwriter

C430
concept

A songwriter is a creative professional who composes lyrics and melodies to craft original songs for performance and recording.

All labels observed (27)

Label Occurrences
songwriter canonical 5,665
singer-songwriter 1,739
lyricist 402

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: songwriter
Generated description
A songwriter is a creative professional who composes lyrics and melodies to craft original songs for performance and recording.

Instances (7,632)

Instance Via concept surface
Geppert
surface form: Christopher Cross
singer-songwriter
Ryan Lewis
Ray Dalton
Peter Case singer-songwriter
Richard Maltby Jr. lyricist
Jelly Roll Morton
Mauro Malavasi
Claude François
David Lindsay-Abaire lyricist
Ralph Stanley
Jim Lauderdale singer-songwriter
Dennis Locorriere singer-songwriter
Pierre Marchand
Ethan Johns
James D. Hargrove
Thomas Richard Paxton singer-songwriter
Rick Christian
Richard O'Brien lyricist
Billy Steinberg
Tom Kelly
Simon Le Bon lyricist
Nick Rhodes
Roger Taylor
Andy Taylor
Herbert Randall Wright III
Lil Bibby
Southside
Seandrea Sledge
Sledge
surface form: Seandrea Sledge
Little Richard
Myra Ellen Amos singer-songwriter
Lloyd Maines
Evie Sands
Stu Cook
Alicia Witt singer-songwriter
Howard Bailey Jr.
Julie Miller singer-songwriter
Richard Clare Danko
Danko
surface form: Rick Danko
Green's Corners, Ontario, Canada
surface form: Rick Danko
Randy Meisner
Timothy B. Schmit
The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement
surface form: Odetta
singer-songwriter
Judith
surface form: Judith Marjorie Collins
singer-songwriter
Alison Sudol singer-songwriter
Marty Balin
Skip Spence
Grace Slick singer-songwriter
Tone (member of Trackmasters)
surface form: Tone
Christopher Wallace