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http://ASCAP100.com ASCAP hits its 100-year milestone on February 13th, 2014. For an entire century, the leading US performing rights organization has made it possible for American songwriters, composers and music publishers, who create the music the world loves, to thrive alongside the businesses that use their work. The site (http://ASCAP100.com) features an interactive timeline of ASCAP's rich history.

ASCAP's commissioned short film "Why We Create Music" celebrates the organization's 100-year history by providing a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process of a veritable who's-who of today's top songwriters and composers. Combining footage from more than 10 separate film shoots around the country with 15 ASCAP members, the film explores the meaning and power of music as expressed by the music creators themselves. In addition, from shoot to shoot an unprecedented collaborative musical composition was built as each participant added their own musical "voice" to the score.

The companion song, "More Than The Stars," with its music video you see here, was completely written and recorded during the actual film shoots for the film. It features lyrics by Ne-Yo, Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, Dan Wilson and Claudia Brant.

LYRICS:

Spoken (Bill Withers): You have to have a passion for the nuance of it. That thing that makes you want to do it. That makes you want to go through that much trouble.


Who knows where it starts
Is it the silence or the sound
The song you hear inside
a force you can't deny.
You just got to let it out

Who knows where it starts
Is it the silence or the sound
The song you hear inside
a force you can't deny
You just got to let it out


Let me
Share this emotion
Share this devotion
Share it with you

Let me
Share this affection
Share this connection
Let me share it with you

(Singing in Spanish)
Si
Somos música
letras y melodías
que el cielo nos envia
y el corazón nos dicta
cantando cada dia

SPANISH TRANSLATION
Yes
We are music
Lyrics and melodies
That heaven sends to us
And our heart dictates to us
Making us sing each day

Let me share this emotion
Share this devotion
Share it with you

Let me share this affection
Share this connection
Let me share it with you

Took a little time to see
I feel so alive with you
I feel so in time with you
Singing with me

What we do, who we are
We are more than the stars

And no it's not about control
It's all about your soul
We all have stories to be told
Through this we know each other, we know

Let me
Share this emotion
Share this devotion
Share it with you

Took a little time to see
I feel so alive with you
I feel so in time with you
Singing with me

Let me
Share this affection
Share this connection
Let me share it with you

Took a little time to see
I feel so alive with you
I feel so in time with you
Singing with me

What we do, who we are
We are more than the stars

CREATED BY:
Already Alive
http://alreadyalive.com

COMMISSIONED BY:
ASCAP

The film features ASCAP songwriters and composers recognized by GRAMMYs, OSCARs, EMMYs, DOVE Awards and Pulitzer Prizes:

ALOE BLACC
Acclaimed soul singer-songwriter behind "I Need a Dollar" and Avicii's international hit "Wake Me Up"

CLAUDIA BRANT
Latin GRAMMY-winning songwriter for Song of the Year

CARTER BURWELL
OSCAR-nominated film composer renowned for scoring The Coen Brothers films

AMY GRANT
GRAMMY and DOVE Award-winning and best-selling contemporary Christian singer-songwriter ever

JOSH KEAR
Three-time GRAMMY-winning country pop songwriter, including Song of the Year, for Lady Antebellum and Carrie Underwood

SAVAN KOTECHA
Hit pop songwriter for Britney Spears, Usher, One Direction, and Maroon 5, as well as vocal producer on The X Factor

DAVID LANG
Pulitzer Prize-winning concert music composer and Bang on a Can co-founder

CHARLES KELLEY and DAVE HAYWOOD of LADY ANTEBELLUM
Seven-time GRAMMY-winning country pop singer-songwriters and Song and Record of the Year winners

BEAR McCREARY
EMMY-winning composer known for his work on The Walking Dead

NE-YO
Three-time GRAMMY-winning R&B singer-songwriter

STARGATE (TOR HERMANSEN & MIKKEL ERIKSEN)
GRAMMY-winning record producing and songwriting duo behind pop hits for Ne-Yo, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Rihanna and others

DAN WILSON
GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter-producer for Adele's "Someone Like You" and Song of the Year winner for Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready to Make Nice"

BILL WITHERS
Legendary and GRAMMY-winning R&B singer-songwriter of "Lean On Me," "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Just The Two of Us"

ADDITIONAL MUSIC BY:
Michael Marantz
Kamau Agyeman

SONG PRODUCED BY:
Edan Dover & Eddie Anthony

ENGINEERED BY:
Drew English

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Nightbird Studios, House of Rock, Nashville's Sound Image, Michael Franti & Guerrilla Management, The Fonda Theatre and all of the ASCAP members that opened up their homes to us for filming

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