noun
definition
A person who writes the lyrics of a song.
Examples of lyricist in a Sentence
Nick Cave, because he is my favorite lyricist.
Please get a decent lyricist to do justice to a great voice and transcendent tunes.
Dee is an NLP Master Practitioner, a well-known lyricist and writer of West End Musicals.
I think he is probably the best lyricist in the world today ' Don Henley Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934.
We asked 12 artists, from a legendary lyricist to a freelance hit-making team, how they created one of their classic tracks.
Whatever anyone made of the song, Kesha herself is a seasoned lyricist and has been behind the scenes penning successful songs for several years.
Smith, the primary lyricist, is also an artist in his own right and his fascination with the dark side of humanity has made the band accessible to the gothic youth culture.
Deep sentiments from an equally profound lyricist, her family's frequent jam sessions are the subject of her song "Out in My Backyard".
As generally able writers of lyrical poetry during the earlier part of this period may be mentioned among others Francis Csaszar, Joseph Szekacs and Andrew Kunoss-also Lewis Szakal and Alexander Vachott, whose songs and romances are of an artless and simple character, and the sacred lyricist Bela Tarkanyi.
There are a number of different songwriting combinations including lyricist Pete Brown.
The greatest English lyricist of his generation, who also comes up with beautiful melodies.
You have to be either a poet, or a song lyricist.
A composer and/or lyricist might need to rework the text to help it to coalesce with a melody.
But it would be sad to think, to quote another genius lyricist, Mike Stoller, " Is That All There Is?
Joseph Bajza was a lyricist of a somewhat melancholy cast, but his Borenek (Wine Song), Sohajtds (Sigh), Ebreszto (Awakening) and Apotheosis are much admired.
The original lyricist of this song is also not known.