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Keith Urban and Bob DiPiero to Receive Special BMI Honors
Urban and DiPiero Named Champion Award Honoree and BMI Icon, Respectively
Keith Urban
and hit-maker Bob DiPiero will be recognized at the 65th annual BMI
Country Awards at the performing rights organization’s Nashville
headquarters on Nov. 7.
Urban’s BMI Champion Award recognizes his work in supporting the next
generation of songwriters and music makers. Throughout his career, he
has exhibited a tireless commitment to supporting several music
education initiatives through the CMA Foundation, the Grammy Foundation,
the Mr. Holland’s Opus Fund, MusiCares and more. His All For The Hall
benefit concerts have raised over $2.6 million for the Country Music
Hall of Fame and Museum.
DiPiero has been named as the 2017 BMI Icon for his indelible
influence on generations of music makers over the past 38 years. The
honor is presented annually to a BMI songwriter who has profoundly
influenced the music industry.
He has written more than 1,000 songs that have been recorded by top
country artists beginning with his very first cut, which he penned
himself, Reba McEntire’s “I Can See Forever In Your Eyes.” His first No.
1 was the Oak Ridge Boys’ 1983 hit “American Made,” which became a
national jingle for Miller Beer, as well as Baby Ruth candy bars.
Additional DiPiero hits include Montgomery Gentry’s “Gone,” Vince
Gill’s “Worlds Apart,” Shenandoah’s “The Church on Cumberland Road,”
George Strait’s “Blue Clear Sky,” Brooks & Dunn’s “You Can’t Take
the Honky-Tonk Out of the Girl,” Martina McBride’s “There You Are” and
Tim McGraw’s “Southern Voice.” He is also a Nashville Songwriters Hall
of Fame inductee.
Previous BMI Icon recipients include Mac Davis, Vince Gill, Hank
Williams, Jr. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson and
others.
The private event will also salute the songwriters, publishers and
administrators of the past year’s most-performed country songs in the
U.S. from BMI’s repertoire of nearly 13 million musical works. The BMI
Country Song, Songwriter and Publisher of the Year will also be named
during the ceremony.
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