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Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi (born December 9, 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, and singer who has contributed to long list of internationally successful popular songs. Raised in New England, New York State, (her father is Joseph J. DioGuardi, a former congressman), DioGuardi worked in the editorial and marketing departments of Billboard Magazine after completing a political science degree at Duke University in 1993. During this period, she collaborated with recording engineer Jon Wolfson to create independent recordings under the name MaD DoLL (1999-2001).

While her early solo and band efforts did not result in commercial successes, she became a much-sought songwriter, writing or co-writing many international hit songs from 2000 to today (see discography below). The majority of her songs have been recorded by American females (Ashley Tisdale, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Christina Aguilera, Anastacia, Pink, Lindsay Lohan, Ashlee Simpson, Paris Hilton and others) with a significant minority recorded by Australian females (Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem, The Veronicas and others).

She also has a song on Canadian singer Avril Lavigne's third album The Best Damn Thing. She co-wrote twelve of the fourteen songs on Hilary Duff's third studio album Dignity. DioGuardi can also be heard performing backup vocals on some of these recordings. Notable writing collaborators include Greg Wells, John Shanks, Guy Chambers and Steve Morales.

In July 2006, a one-hour VH1 movie for Platinum Weird, a controversial collaboration between DioGuardi and Dave Stewart which is being marketed as an elaborate hoax, was aired, accompanied by a three-song EP. The album was further promoted by a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites, some of which registered by the New Media Department of Interscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com, and related false documents for the "lost" group. The album was released in October, 2006.