Sue Ennis is asongwriter fromSeattle, Washington. She has co-written over 115 songs withAnn Wilson andNancy Wilson of the bandHeart.[1]Ennis has taught classes on songwriting and the music business atShoreline Community College, and has served four terms as Trustee of the Pacific Northwest Chapter ofthe Recording Academy.
Ennis' songwriting with Heart includes "Straight On", "Even It Up" and "Dog & Butterfly", and she has been a member of and co-writer for the bandThe Lovemongers with the Wilsons and Frank Cox.[2]
Known for her versatility and genre-jumping as a songwriter, she has co-written music as part of other works: withJohn Barry and Ann and Nancy Wilson, Ennis co-wrote "The Best Man in the World" from the 1986 filmThe Golden Child.[3] She has co-written songs withHummie Mann, including "Shining Time" from the 2000 movieThomas and the Magic Railroad.[4] They also wrote an ad jingle for "State Roofing" which won a "Soundie Award" for best commercial of the year in the PNW. 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 a children's musicalArt Dog at the Seattle Children's Theatre.
Ennis teaches classes on songwriting and the music business atShoreline Community College and has served four terms as Trustee of the Pacific Northwest Chapter ofthe Recording Academy. Terming out as President of the PNW chapter of the Recording Academy, she was recently re-elected by the board as a national trustee for the upcoming term (2025-29). She also serves on the Leadership Council for the Songwriters and Composers Wing of the Recording Academy. She sat on the Seattle Music Commission in the Office of Arts and Culture which oversees music advocacy for the PNW music community; she was reappointed in 2021.
Three of her songs ("You and Me", "I'll Find You", "Walk Away") appear onYou and Me (2021) the first solo record by Heart's Nancy Wilson. Their recent songwriting collaboration, a Million Goodbyes, features Nancy in a duet withBen Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie).
Ennis hasB.A. degrees in English and German fromWillamette University and aM.A. in German Literature from theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[5]
The two Wilson sisters with the help of longtime friend Sue Ennis, a Ph.D. candidate in German literature — write all the material on the band's albums.
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