Dino Fekaris

{{short description|American music producer and songwriter}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Dino Fekaris

| birth_name = Dino George Fekaris

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|1|24}}

| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| alma_mater = Wayne State University

| known_for = "I Will Survive"

}}

Dino George Fekaris (born January 24, 1945) is an American music producer and songwriter.{{cite book|author=Mike Morsch|title=The Vinyl Dialogues: Stories Behind Memorable Albums of the 1970s as Told by the Artists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UizBCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT168|date=15 May 2014|publisher=The Educational Publisher / Biblio Publishing|isbn=978-1-62249-207-7|pages=168–9}}{{cite book|author=Robert “Boogie” Bowles with Kathleen G|title=Behind the Boogie: How I Became Guitarist for a Motown Legend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymRw1D6-EpoC&pg=PA79|date=1 August 2011|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4653-3605-7|pages=79, 100, 146}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Gilbert|first1=Sophie|title=The Library of Congress Celebrates Ten Legendary Songwriters|url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/05/16/the-library-of-congress-celebrates-ten-legendary-songwriters/|website=Washingtonian|date=16 May 2012 |accessdate=11 September 2016}}

Fekaris was the producer and co-writer, with Freddie Perren, of the 1978 song "I Will Survive", and other songs recorded by Gloria Gaynor.{{cite book|author=Jon Kutner|title=1000 UK Number One Hits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BwwLBaH9488C&pg=PT579|date=26 May 2010|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0-85712-360-2|pages=579–580}}

Nominated five times for the Grammy Award, he won once in 1979 for "I Will Survive".{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/dino-fekaris/11477|title=Dino Fekaris|date=23 November 2020|website=Grammy.com|accessdate=22 January 2021}}