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Paul Michael Barry is a British songwriter and musician. Some of his best-known songs include "Believe" by Cher, and "Hero" and "Bailamos" by Enrique Iglesias. He has won three Ivor Novello Awards and ASCAP PRS writer of the year 2000. He has scored three U.S. number-one singles, as well as other number-ones around the world. His songs have been recorded by Lionel Richie, James Morrison, Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Lemar, Craig David, Tina Turner, Britney Spears, Mica Paris, Rod Stewart, Lara Fabian, Ronan Keating, Esmee Denters, JLS, Rebecca Ferguson, The Vamps and most recently, James Bay, among others. ==Songwriting career== Barry has five songs on the multi-platinum Cher LP ''Believe'', including “Strong Enough” and "Believe”. He has also co-written more songs for Cher including "Song for the Lonely” and "The Music's No Good Without You" from the ''Living Proof'' album. Barry worked with Enrique Iglesias, initially writing for and later collaborating with him. He has been a source of eight singles from four albums for Iglesias: "Hero", "Bailamos” and "Be With You", the latter two songs reaching the number one spot on the US Billboard Hot 100. "Hero" stayed at number three in the US for four weeks, and was number one in the UK and several other countries. Other hits include "Rhythm Divine", "Love to See You Cry" and "Not in Love" (featuring Kelis). Barry worked with Lionel Richie for his ''Renaissance'' album, co-writing six songs, including the singles "Angel", "Don’t Stop the Music" and "Tender Heart", then on five songs for Richie's ''Just for You'' album, including the title track. He co-wrote the Bryan McFadden/Delta Goodrem duet "Almost Here", which first brought the two artists together, and was number one in Ireland and Australia, as well as number three in the UK. More recently Barry worked with James Morrison on two songs for his ''Songs for You, Truths for Me'' album, including the first single "You Make It Real". He also contributed two songs to JLS debut album ''JLS'' and Another World to The Vamps debut album, "Meet the Vamps". Barry has recently co-written new artist James Bay's single "Let It Go", and he's currently working with Anggun for her sixth international album. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Barry (songwriter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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