Sue Ennis is a

songwriter A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

from

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. She has co-written over 80 songs with

Ann Wilson Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) is an American singer best known as the lead singer of the rock band Heart. Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s; her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is also a member of the band. One o ...

and Nancy Wilson of the band

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Career

Ennis' songwriting with Heart includes " Straight On", " Even It Up" and " Dog & Butterfly", and she has been a member of the band The Lovemongers with the Wilsons and Frank Cox. She has co-written music as part of other works: With John Barry and Ann and Nancy Wilson, Ennis co-wrote "The Best Man in the World" from the 1986 film ''

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''. She has co-written songs with

Hummie Mann Hummie Mann (born October 29, 1955) is a Canadian-born American film score composer. His credits include the Mel Brooks films '' Robin Hood: Men in Tights'' and '' Dracula: Dead and Loving It''. Mann was awarded an Emmy for arranging Billy Cryst ...

, including "Shining Time" from the 2000 movie ''

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''. She wrote the song for "The Great Fire", a permanent installation in Seattle's Museum of History and Industry and wrote the score and songs for ''Art Dog'' a musical production at the Seattle Children's Theatre. She teaches classes on songwriting and music business at Shoreline Community College near Seattle, Washington and has served four terms as Trustee of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of

the Recording Academy National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (NARAS), doing business as The Recording Academy, is an American Learned society, learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals. It is widely kno ...

. In 2021 she was named to the Leadership Council for the Songwriters and Composers Wing of the Recording Academy. In 2018, she was appointed to the Seattle Music Commission in the Office of Arts and Culture which oversees music advocacy for the PNW music community. (reappointment in 2021.) Three of her songs ("You and Me", "I'll Find You", "Walk Away") appear on ''You and Me'' (2021) the first solo record by Heart's Nancy Wilson. She has

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degrees in English and German from

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and her M.A. in German Literature from the

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