Mary Applegate

Mary Susan Applegate is an American songwriter and poet who co-wrote the Jennifer Rush song "The Power of Love" and the Buranovskiye Babushki song "Party for Everybody."She also co-wrote No Mercy's song "Please Don't Go", as well as Belarusian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, "Help You Fly", by Ivan. Earlier lyrics include "Do You Wanna" from the first album (1985) of Germany's most successful pop-duo Modern Talking, co-written with Dieter Bohlen. In 2019, she co-wrote with Serhat his Eurovision entry "Say Na Na Na", which represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.