Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael adalah seorang komposer, pianis, penyanyi, aktor, dan pemimpin band Amerika. Dia terkenal karena menggubah musik untuk "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", dan "Heart and Soul", empat lagu Amerika yang paling banyak direkam sepanjang masa. Komposer dan penulis Amerika Alec Wilder menulis tentang Carmichael dalam American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 bahwa dia adalah "yang paling berbakat, inventif, canggih, dan berorientasi jazz" dari ratusan penulis yang menggubah lagu pop pada paruh pertama abad ke-20.

Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 that he was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.