Biography
Will Jennings was an American lyricist and composer. He was born on 27 June 1944 in Kilgore, Texas, and died on 6 September 2024 in Tyler, Texas. He studied English and taught at Tyler Junior College and Stephen F. Austin State University before beginning to write songs in the early 1970s.
Jennings wrote lyrics for numerous film soundtracks. His credits include 'Up Where We Belong' for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), which won an Academy Award, and 'My Heart Will Go On' for Titanic (1997), also an Academy Award winner and performed by Céline Dion. He collaborated with composers including James Horner and Jack Nitzsche.
Other notable work includes 'Tears in Heaven' for Rush (1991) and contributions to A Beautiful Mind (2001). He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006 and won multiple Grammy and Golden Globe awards.
