For Gary Wollman, songwriting is a way of asking difficult questions—and helping people recognize the humanity they share.
GWMore than 200 original songs
Gary’s songs explore conscience, compassion, faith, love, dignity, personal responsibility, and the choices that shape our common future.
His point of view was shaped in part by 34 years as a New York City special-education teacher. Working closely with young people taught him how deeply respect—or its absence—can influence a life. That understanding runs through songs that give voice to people seeking connection, recognition, courage, and a better way forward.
Across more than 200 original works, Gary writes with an educator’s belief in human possibility and a storyteller’s instinct for the emotional moment when change becomes possible.
Music in the world
Meaning made to be shared.
Gary’s work has reached beyond the writing room into community, broadcast, and cultural settings. His music has accompanied historic moments, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and Nelson Mandela’s election in South Africa.
The 1990s music-video project Love Is the Key brought together businesses, schools, local communities, established artists, and production crews. The finished work was carried by cable television and radio outlets around the United States, including CTV’s Lightmusic and WNYC’s Video Music Box.
The project also received national industry recognition when Love Is the Key appeared on Lightmusic’s “Current” playlist in Billboard’s February 27, 1993 Clip List.
Sage Songs organizes and presents Gary Wollman’s songwriting catalog for meaningful creative use. It brings together authoritative lyrics, recordings, metadata, registration materials, Song Stories, and licensing information in one clear place.
The Featured Catalog offers a focused introduction to the larger body of work. Sage Songs welcomes thoughtful inquiries from filmmakers, music supervisors, theatre producers, recording artists, educators, nonprofit organizations, and other creative partners.
Sage Songs is the catalog. Siren & Sage is the artistic collaboration.
Gary’s songs also form the creative foundation of Siren & Sage, the music project he shares with Angela Wollman, whose vocals and creative direction add another layer of visual and emotional storytelling.