Canadian songwriter Shirley Eikhard, known for Grammy-winning 'Something to Talk About', dead at 67 - Fox News

Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who penned Bonnie Raitt's 1991 hit ‘Something to Talk About,’ has died. She was 67.

Eikhard's publicist Eric Alper confirmed her decease to the Associated Press, telling the outlet that she passed distant connected Thursday owed to complications from crab astatine the Headwaters Health Care Centre successful Orangeville, Ontario.

The Canada autochthonal wrote songs for Cher, Anne Murray, Emmylou Harris, Chet Atkins,  Ginette Reno, Alannah Myles, and Rita Coolidge. However, she was best-known for "Something to Talk About," which won Raitt the champion popular vocal show astatine the 1992 Grammy Awards and was besides nominated successful the grounds of the twelvemonth category.

Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who penned Bonnie Raitt's  1991 deed ‘Something to Talk About,’ has died astatine the property of 67. (Courtesy of Eric Alper via AP)

Eikhard wrote the blues-rock deed successful 1985 and offered it to Murray, who was funny successful signaling it but declined aft her producers rejected the song. Nevertheless, Murray went connected to rubric her 1985 medium "Something to Talk About," though it didn't see Eikhard's song.

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Eikhard offered the opus to different artists, who each declined to grounds it. Years later, Raitt near a voicemail connected Eikhard’s telephone saying she had conscionable recorded it. The American vocalist aboriginal said that she’d discovered the opus connected a demo Eikhard had sent and admired it.

"I got location and determination was this happening connected my machine. There was Bonnie…I was numb," Eikhard recalled successful a property merchandise for the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The opus was the archetypal azygous from Raitt’s 1991 medium "Luck of the Draw" and spent 20 weeks connected the Billboard Hot 100, peaking astatine No. 5.

"Something to Talk About" inspired the rubric of the 1995 Warner Bros. movie starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid. 

During her career, Eikhard released 18 full-length albums betwixt 1972 to 2021 and taught herself to play guitar, piano, bass, drums, percussion, chromatic harmonica, sax, banjo and mandolin.

She passed distant connected Thursday owed to complications from cancer in Orangeville, Ontario. (Photo by Reg Innell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

At property 15, Eikhard wrote the "It Takes Time," which was recorded by state vocalist Murray successful 1971, and aboriginal became a deed successful Canada. In 1972, Eikhard released her self-titled debut album. The rubric way for Atkins’ 41st workplace album, "Pickin’ My Way" was 1 of Eikhard’s earliest successes.

Cher and Eikhard co-wrote the frenetic creation way "Lovers Forever" for the 1994 movie "Interview with the Vampire," but it didn’t marque the last soundtrack cut. However, Cher included "Lovers Forever" connected her 2013 medium "Closer to the Truth."

Eikhard penned"Born With the Hunger" for Cher’s 2000 album, "not.com.mercial." It was 1 of lone 2 songs connected the medium that were not written by Cher. 

She sang the taxable opus for Stanley Kramer’s 1976 movie "The Domino Principle" starring Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen, arsenic good arsenic the taxable opus for "The Passion of Ayn Rand" successful 2000.

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Eikhard was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame for "Something to Talk About" successful 2020. Raitt joined Eikhard astatine a virtual induction ceremonial that was broadcast connected Canada's Global News network.

On Friday, the "I Can't Make You Love Me" hitmaker paid tribute to Eikhard connected Instagram.

"I’m profoundly saddened to perceive of the passing of my person Shirley Eikhard, the fantastic Canadian singer/songwriter who wrote my deed song, 'Something to Talk About,'" Raitt wrote alongside a achromatic and achromatic photograph of Eikhard.

"My condolences spell retired to her household and friends. You tin work astir her beingness and euphony astatine the nexus successful my bio. Another one, gone excessively soon. I volition beryllium everlastingly grateful for our beauteous transportation and friendship."

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.