Biography
Grammy-nominated songwriter, Denise Rich, has created an expansive body of work that embraces several musical genres. She writes in English, French, Spanish and Italian, her songs span across generations and have been recorded by world-class artists from Celine Dion and Natalie Cole to Mandy Moore and Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus). Multi- faceted and driven, Denise is also recognized internationally as a serious and ardent philanthropist and entrepreneur.
Denise has contributed her talent as well as her earnings to a number of worthy causes. The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis chose her song “All I Wanna Be Is Understood” as its anthem. Denise also wrote “Love Will Set You Free”, recorded by R&B diva Kelly Price for The Hurricane, raising over $200,000 for the T.J. Martell Foundation and Gabrielleʼs Angel Foundation for Cancer Research. Denise was recently appointed to the board of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She also serves on the board of LIFEbeat (The Music Industry Fights AIDS).