Carole Bayer Sager

Trivia

• She appeared on the January 24, 2007 episode of American Idol as a judge during the Manhattan auditions.
• In May 2006 she was honored at a lunch at NYU's Steinhardt School and later that evening received the Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University.
• Sager received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1987 for "That's What Friends Are For", which she co-wrote with Bacharach. The song was originally written for the 1982 film Night Shift and was recorded for the movie by Rod Stewart.
• Sager won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1981 for "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", the theme song from the film Arthur. She shared the award with co-writers Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, and Christopher Cross.
• She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987.
• Sager has won an Oscar (six nominations), a Grammy (nine nominations), two Golden Globe (seven nominations).
• Her first recording as a singer was the 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included the #1 international single "You're Moving Out Today", a song which she co-wrote with Bette Midler.
• She had already co-written her first pop hit, "A Groovy Kind of Love", with Toni Wine, while still a student at the New York City High School of Music and Art.
• Sager graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, Dramatic Arts and Speech.
• Is an American lyricist, songwriter and singer.