Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who provided songs for Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray, Chet Atkins and uncovered lasting fame penning Bonnie Raitt‘s Grammy-winning 1991 hit “Something to Communicate About,” has died. She was 67.
Eikhard died Thursday at Headwaters Wellness Treatment Centre in Orangeville, Ontario, because of to issues from most cancers, reported publicist Eric Alper.
The blues-rock smash hit “Something to Speak About” was created in 1985 and Eikhard had provided it to Murray and other artists, who all declined to record it. Then yrs later Raitt left a concept on Eikhard’s phone indicating she she’d just recorded it. Raitt mentioned later she’d identified the song on a demo Eikhard experienced despatched and admired it.
The music was the initial solitary from Raitt’s 1991 album “Luck of the Draw” and put in 20 months on the Billboard Scorching 100, peaking at No. 5. It would win Raitt the best pop vocal functionality at the 1992 Grammy Awards and was also nominated in the report of the calendar year category.
On Grammy night, Raitt created sure to thank Eikhard and she turned to Twitter immediately after Eikhard’s death to say she was “deeply saddened,” writing “I will be without end grateful for our gorgeous relationship and friendship.”
Eikhard attained Juno Awards in 1973 and 1974 for best country female artist and she gained various BMI Awards. She was inducted into the Canadian Songwriter’s Corridor of Fame in Oct 2020. Her most modern album was 2021’s “On My Way to You.”
During her occupation, Eikhard unveiled 18 comprehensive-duration albums between 1972 to 2021 and taught herself to play guitar, piano, bass, drums, percussion, chromatic harmonica, sax, banjo and mandolin.
At age 15, Eikhard’s track “It Normally takes Time” was recorded by place singer Murray in 1971, and later grew to become a strike in her native Canada. Eikhard unveiled her self-titled debut album the following 12 months in 1972. The title track for Atkins’ 41st studio album, “Pickin’ My Way” was 1 of Eikhard’s earliest successes.
She also crafted with Cher the frenetic dance observe “Lovers Forever” for the 1994 film “Interview with the Vampire,” but it did not make the final soundtrack slash. They collaborated once again on “Born With the Hunger,” from Cher’s 2000 album, “Not.com.mercial.”
Eikhard sang the theme music for Stanley Kramer’s 1976 movie “The Domino Principle” starring Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen, as very well as the topic song for “The Enthusiasm of Ayn Rand” in 2000.
