years_active alias label article_title name background origin birth_name occupation
1973-present sharon rice , sharon bellamy cinnamon , dot sharon vaughn
 sharon vaughn non_performing_personnel orlando , florida , united states mary sharon vaughn songwriter , musician , producer
sharon vaughn

mary sharon vaughn is a stockholm based american musician , songwriter and producer .
she has written hits for artists such as willie nelson , agnes , kate ryan , boyzone , namie amuro and september .
during 2014 , vaughn competed as the songwriter of three songs in melodifestivalen .
vaughn moved to nashville in her early 20 's .
in 1974 , she charted two singles for cinnamon records : a duet with narvel felts titled `` until the end of time '' , and `` never a night goes by '' .
a year later , she signed with dot records and released a third single , `` you and me , me and you '' .
she was also the lead singer in the lea jane singers , and worked with the jordanaires , the nashville edition and the holladay sisters .
vaughn 's first cut was `` my heroes have always been cowboys '' , that was first recorded by waylon jennings in 1976 and further popularized in 1980 by willie nelson for the soundtrack of the movie the electric horseman .
since then she has worked with country artists such as dolly parton , waylon jennings , george jones , tammy wynette , tanya tucker and kenny rogers and she has been nominated for the nashville songwriters foundation 's hall of fame three times .
vaughn was formerly married to songwriter bill rice , and later to howard bellamy of the bellamy brothers .
vaughn has during the last couple of years had over 100 cuts with european artists and four number ones in japan .
she has worked with several swedish idol artists including the winner jay smith -lrb- 2010 -rrb- and a number one hit for ola .
she has also worked with many scandinavian songwriters and artists including agnes , mutt lange , tony nilsson , vendela , anders hanson and emilia .
in 2009 the song release me -lrb- agnes -rrb- reached # 1 on the u.s billboard dance club songs chart .
in 2013 vaughn received the jasrac awards as # 1 of the top 10 foreign works for her co-written song rising sun -lrb- exile -rrb- .
vaughn has co-written songs with ian dench , carl falk and worked together with jonas quant .
