Steve Kipner (born
Steven Alan Kipner, 1950) is an
American-born
Australian multi-platinum-selling
songwriter and
record producer, with hits spanning a 40-year period, including chart-topping songs such as
Olivia Newton-John's "
Physical",
Chicago's
Grammy-nominated "
Hard Habit to Break", "
Genie in a Bottle" by
Christina Aguilera, for which he won an
Ivor Novello Award for International Hit of the Year,
Natasha Bedingfield's "
These Words", "
The Hardest Thing" by
98 Degrees, "
He Loves U Not" by
Dream, "
Stole" by Destiny's Child's
Kelly Rowland,
The Script's "
Breakeven" and "
The Man Who Can't Be Moved", and most recently,
American Idol Season 8 Kris Allen's first top 5 single debut "Live Like We're Dying", and "
Fight for This Love" by
Cheryl Cole.