Will Jennings, co-writer of Titanic's My Heart Will Go On, dies - reports

Will Jennings, the co-writer of smash hits specified arsenic Steve Winwood’s Higher Love and Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On, has died astatine the property of 80, according to aggregate US media reports.

Jennings died successful his Texan home, his caregiver told the Hollywood Reporter. A origin of decease was not identified.

In a vocation spanning 5 decades, the antheral from the tiny municipality of Kilgore, Texas, began his Hollywood vocation successful 1976, and successful 1977 teamed up with composer Richard Kerr to constitute Barry Manilow’s Looks Like We Made It.

The brace reunited for the artist’s apical 10 hit, Somewhere successful the Night, 2 years later.

Jennings went connected to constitute for a fig of legendary artists, including B.B. King, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett and Roy Orbison.

During his career, Jennings collaborated connected a scope of songs for movie soundtracks, bringing him acclaim successful the process.

It was successful 1983 that Jennings won his archetypal Academy Award for the opus Up Where We Belong, written for Taylor Hackford’s An Officer and a Gentleman.

Eight years connected and helium won a Grammy Award, arsenic good arsenic a Golden Globe nomination, for penning the lyrics to Eric Clapton’s Tears successful Heaven for the movie Rush.

But supra them each came the Celine Dion classical My Heart Will Go On, written for James Cameron’s Titanic – sweeping location an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award successful 1998.

He was nominated for a full of six Grammy Awards and had 3 to his name.

In 2006, his bequest was cemented erstwhile was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Singer Peter Wolf paid tribute to his person connected societal media writing: "A bittersweet time, the passing of Will Jennings, a maestro, superb caput and a gentle spirit."

The erstwhile J. Geils Band frontman went on: "Will shared his talents with me, ever diligent and generous; helium was a treasured person and teacher, enriching my beingness successful truthful galore ways.

"It was an tremendous honour to person worked with specified a philharmonic genius for truthful galore years… To punctuation 1 of his favourite poets, W.B Yeats, 'Think wherever man’s glory astir begins and ends, and accidental my glory was I had specified friends.'"