Tony Arata

Tony Arata is a country songwriter from Savannah, Georgia, who moved to Nashville in 1986. He wrote Garth Brooks' number one "The Dance", which won the Academy of Country Music's Song of the Year in 1991, as well as Patty Loveless's "Here I Am" and Lee Roy Parnell's "I'm Holding My Own". He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.