Kara DioGuardi Biography
Kara DioGuardi is a pop-rock singer, composer, record producer, music publisher, and A&R executive from the United States. She has worked with a variety of musicians and has sold over 160 million CDs. DioGuardi has received multiple honors, including the 2011 NAMM Music for Life Award, the 2009 NMPA Songwriter Icon Award, the 2007 BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year, and 20 BMI Awards for co-writing the most popular radio songs.
How old Kara DioGuardi? – Age
She is 52 years old as of 9 December 2022. She was born in 1970 in Ossining, New York, United States. Her real name is Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi.
Kara DioGuardi Family – Education
She is an Arbresh (Albanian) descendant from Italy. Joe DioGuardi, a former Republican congressman and US Senate candidate in 2010, is her father. Carol, her mother, died of ovarian cancer in 1997, following a seven-year fight. She grew up in the Wilmot Woods part of suburban New Rochelle, New York, and attended primary school at Scarsdale’s Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School, then The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, before graduating from Duke University with a degree in political science.
Is Kara DioGuardi married? – Husband – Children
She began dating Mike McCuddy, a teacher-turned-general contractor, in 2007 after meeting him when he was building on a home close to her property in Maine. DioGuardi and McCuddy were engaged in December 2008, after dating for a year and a half, and married on July 5, 2009, in Prospect Harbor, Maine. McCuddy’s previous relationship resulted in a teenage daughter. DioGuardi and McCuddy have one son, born on January 31, 2013, via gestational carrier. After years of infertility and failed in vitro fertilization procedures, the couple decided to employ a surrogate.
Kara DioGuardi Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
Kara DioGuardi American Idol
Sara DioGuardi joined Fox’s American Idol as a fourth judge for the seventh season in 2009. She returned for the ninth season, replacing Paula Abdul, who had left owing to contract issues. She departed the program in 2010, however, and did not return for the tenth season. DioGuardi previously worked with Idol, co-writing the UK number-one hit “Spinning Around” with former judge Paula Abdul in 2000. She has written songs for Idol contestants and alumni, including “No Boundaries” for the season eight coronation single.
DioGuardi struggled to find her place among the judges despite her accomplishment. According to Richard Rushfield’s book “American Idol: The Untold Story,” other judges frequently departed the studio during commercial breaks, leaving DioGuardi alone. She co-wrote “Terrified” with Jason Reeves for Katharine McPhee’s album Unbroken, which Didi Benami recorded. DioGuardi also posted a video on YouTube of herself performing “Terrified” alongside Reeves, which has over 1,800,000 views. In 2011, she appeared on Hannah Montana and served as a judge on the Bravo singer-songwriter competition series Platinum Hit.
Kara DioGuardi Career
DioGuardi has a songwriting index of a few hundred tunes, of which north of 300 have been delivered on significant marks around the world, and more than 150 have showed up on platinum selling collections. She has had 50 worldwide outlining singles throughout the span of her vocation, and her tunes have impelled in excess of 66 collections into the Main Ten of the Bulletin 200. Her melodies have been highlighted in significant movies, TV programs, film soundtracks, and radio spots, as well as public and worldwide business crusades.
She composed with Ashlee Simpson for her first and second collections, in 2003 and 2004. She teamed up with Thalía in 2003 for her self-named collection Thalía. In 2004, DioGuardi co-thought of one-6th of the tracks off Kelly Clarkson’s sophomore collection Breakaway including Clarkson’s hit “Leave”. DioGuardi then worked with Australian artist, Ricki-Lee Coulter, on her 2005 single, Daylight from her presentation studio collection, Ricki-Lee, which was delivered in October of that year. She likewise worked with Christina Aguilera on her collection Straightforward in 2006, co-composing twelve of the thirteen tracks on plate one of the collection, among them being “Ain’t No Other Man”, and “Some time ago”. Around the same time, she worked together with Jesse McCartney on his collection Right Where You Need Me, co-composing four tunes called “Anyone”, “Powerful”, “Taking off” and “Feels Like Sunday”.
In 2007, DioGuardi worked with numerous striking specialists, one of whom was Britney Lances. DioGuardi composed and created “Ooh Child” and co-delivered “Paradise on The planet” on Lances’ collection Power outage. DioGuardi likewise contributed a larger part of melodies on Hilary Duff’s fourth studio collection, Pride.
Since American Symbol Season 8, DioGuardi got back to songwriting and creating, and has worked with number of specialists, including Pink’s “Clearheaded,” Kelly Clarkson’s “I Don’t Connect,” Cobra Starship’s “Great Young ladies Turn sour,” Katharine McPhee’s “Had Everything”, Carrie Underwood’s “Fix It”, and Hypothesis of a Deadman’s “Not Intended to Be” among other new deliveries.
Among DioGuardi’s ventures is the melody “Not Intended to Be”, which shows up on Hypothesis of a Deadman’s 2008 collection, Scars and Trinkets. DioGuardi co-composed the melody with lead artist Tyler Connolly, and is additionally highlighted as the adoration interest in the music video which was delivered on Walk 10, 2009. This was her presentation in the music video industry.
In 2007, Dioguardi and Eurythmics part Dave Stewart stated “Taking Risks” for Celine Dion. It was delivered as the primary single from the collection Taking Risks in September 2007. The melody was a triumph all over the planet, cresting inside the main ten in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy and Switzerland. It additionally topped at number 40 on the UK Singles Outline, while on the Bulletin Hot 100 diagram, it arrived at number 54.
In 2009, DioGuardi stated “In the event that I Can’t Have You” for Meat Portion’s 2010 collection, Hang Cool Teddy Bear and recorded the vocal as a two part harmony with Meat Portion. She is likewise one of the scholars for “Phantom”, which was delivered as a solitary from Fefe Dobson’s collection Euphoria (2010). She composed melodies for Aussie artist Natalie Imbruglia’s third studio collection Counting As the days progressed.
Subsequent to enjoying some time off from composing she composed on Kelly Clarkson’s “Pulse Melody” which was the principal single from Clarkson’s seventh studio collection Piece by Piece (2015). She expressed “Revolutionary Hearts” for Hilary Duff’s Take In Inhale Out collection in 2015.
Kara DioGuardi Movies
♦ 2011 – Platinum Hit
♦ 2010 – The Simpsons
♦ 2009–2010 – American Idol
♦ 2009 – Hannah Montana
♦ 2006 – Rock Legends: Platinum Weird
♦ 2006 – The One: Making a Music Star