{"id":733808,"date":"2026-06-13T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733808\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:16:21","slug":"taylor-swift-becomes-youngest-woman-ever-inducted-into-songwriters-hall-of-fame-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733808\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift becomes youngest woman ever inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Swift<\/a>\u00a0became the youngest woman ever inducted into the\u00a0Songwriters Hall of Fame\u00a0Thursday night at age 36.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was instinctual. No one taught me how to do it,\u201d she said of songwriting through a raspy voice she attributed to screaming along to the night\u2019s performances and\u00a0Wednesday night\u2019s historic NBA game\u00a0between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n

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She told the room about her family uprooting their lives to move her from Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennessee, when she was a tween.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never be able to express my gratitude,\u201d\u00a0the singer-songwriter\u00a0said while holding back tears \u2014 crediting their sacrifice for her career.<\/p>\n

She offered young songwriters advice: \u201cYou really have to prioritize what you love, down to your very core. Because you\u2019ll need that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steven Spielberg<\/a>\u00a0introduced Swift with a surprise speech about the power of songwriting. \u201cThere is something undeniable about how songs imprint on our souls,\u201d he said, before changing his focus to Swift. \u201cSomehow Taylor knows us\u00a0all too well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift started her speech by acknowledging Spielberg. \u201cBecause of examples like Steven\u2019s, I trusted my imagination,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Gen Z singer Sombr launched Swift\u2019s segment by performing Cardigan and Dear John\u00a0in front of her.<\/p>\n

Swift has brought new eyes to this year\u2019s ceremony and undeniably shaped contemporary pop music trends with her songwriting. Swift is the youngest woman inducted, but Stevie Wonder, who started his recording career at 13, was the youngest ever inducted, it was announced on stage.<\/p>\n

It was a notable moment in an evening full of them, where Swift, Kiss\u2019 Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Christopher \u201cTricky\u201d Stewart, Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins and more were honoured.<\/p>\n

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Tamar Braxton opened the gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City with a spirited tribute to a new inductee \u2014 the game-changing R&B songwriter, producer and rapper Christopher \u201cTricky\u201d Stewart \u2014 with one of the biggest songs he\u2019s known for: Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Single Ladies.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s also responsible for\u00a0singer-songwriter Rihanna<\/a>\u2019s Umbrella, Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2019s Touch My Body and Justin Bieber<\/a>\u2019s Baby.<\/p>\n

Dallas Austin, a songwriter and producer known for work with Boyz ll Men and Madonna, introduced Stewart. \u201cThink about that catalogue,\u201d he said, listing off those zeitgeist-shifting records. \u201cThose are cultural moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart thanked God, his family, artists he\u2019s worked with and mentors \u2014 giving a special shout-out to Grammy award-winning music producer Antonio \u201cL.A.\u201d Reid and the iconic singer-songwriter Babyface. \u201cI wanted to be like L.A. and Baby,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n

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Kiss founders Simmons and Stanley \u2014 two and a half years after\u00a0the band\u2019s farewell \u2014 were also recognized for their glam rock classics Rock and Roll All Nite and I Love It Loud. The Smashing Pumpkins\u2019 Billy Corgan covered the former, a fittingly fiery introduction for the band. He was joined by Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 frontman John Rzeznik for the latter.<\/p>\n

Simmons wasn\u2019t present; Stanley said that he had a family emergency.<\/p>\n

\u201cSongs are the messenger,\u201d he said \u2014 the foundation of \u201cevery show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soft rock legend Kenny Loggins (Footloose, Danny\u2019s Song) and the alt-rock icon Morissette\u00a0were also inducted.<\/p>\n

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For the latter, Brandi Carlile performed Uninvited alongside SistaStrings, before introducing Morissette.<\/p>\n

\u201cWriting to me is not a hobby,\u201d Morissette said, it\u2019s critical. \u201cIt\u2019s write or die.\u201d Then she performed Mary Jane and You Oughta Know from her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill.<\/p>\n

For Loggins, Gavin DeGraw performed Danny\u2019s Song, before Loggins told the story behind the tune in his acceptance speech.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tAcknowledging writers and their hits<\/p>\n

Taylor Dayne and Madison Cunningham performed\u00a0Tina Turner classics written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle in honour of their induction; John Fogerty was honoured with the Johnny Mercer Award.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI got my songs back!\u201d Fogerty said, ending a nearly 30-minute speech, referencing the fact that he\u00a0won the rights back to his catalogue at age 80. Then he ran through a medley of his hits: Proud Mary, Fortunate Son, and Have You Ever Seen the Rain among them.<\/p>\n

The songwriter Walter Afanasieff (Mariah Carey\u2019s All I Want for Christmas Is You) was also recognized, a segment that began with an introduction by actor Jeremy Renner and included a monster medley of his biggest songs by R&B singer Shel\u00e9a, kicking off with his Christmas classic six months early.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to be The Beatles,\u201d he said of falling in love with songwriting in his speech. \u201cSixty years later, I got to produce Paul McCartney.\u201d<\/p>\n

An established tradition<\/p>\n

British singer-songwriter RAYE received the prestigious Hal David Starlight Award. She ended her speech by stating that songwriters deserve a cut of master royalties.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s inductees\u00a0included George Clinton, The Doobie Brothers, Ashley Gorley, Rodney \u201cDarkchild\u201d Jerkins, The Beach Boys\u2019 Mike Love and Tony Macaulay.<\/p>\n

The Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1969 to honour those who create popular music. A songwriter with a notable catalogue of songs qualifies for induction 20 years after the first commercial release of a song.<\/p>\n

Some already in the hall include Gloria Estefan, Carole King, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Lionel Richie, Bill Withers, Neil Diamond and Phil Collins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u00a0became the youngest woman ever inducted into the\u00a0Songwriters Hall of Fame\u00a0Thursday night at age 36. \u201cIt was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,7223,519,2845],"class_list":["post-733808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift","tag-trending","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}