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. The same year Bridget's song "Everything Changes" was featured on ''

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''. In 2001, Benenate met music producer Matthew Gerrard. They started to collaborate. One of the first songs they wrote together was "Hold On" for the girl group

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, which was featured in the movie ''

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''. In 2003 the duo penned several songs for Christian artists

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and

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. Jaci’s album, ''Unspoken'', included the song "" Lost Without You," which was later released as the US debut single for the Australian pop idol

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. Bridget Benenate appeared as guest vocalist for the track ''Ever Since We Met'' on

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's 2003 album A Thousand Kisses Deep. Botti, Benenate and Gerrard were co-writers on the track. It was not until 2004 that Benenate found her biggest success to date by penning the number one single, "Breakaway," for

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winner

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. "Breakaway" spent a record twenty consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Benenate’s most recent successes includes the title cut on JoJo's second album '' The High Road'' and the song "Still There For Me" on ''

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'' fame,

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’s debut album.

References

External links

* http://www.bridgetbenenate.com * http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/benenate.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20070307161600/http://www.windsweptpacific.com/thewriters/b_benenate.asp {{DEFAULTSORT:Benenate, Bridget Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American women songwriters 21st-century American women