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{{Infobox musical artist |name           = Shari Verona |image          = |caption        = songwriter, producer |landscape      = |background     = non_vocal_instrumentalist |birth_name     = |alias          = |birth_date     = 1961 |birth_place    = Brooklyn, New York |death_date     = |genre          = r&b music, Rock, Blues, country |occupation     = songwriter,producer |years_active   = 1970s - present |label          = Sony Bug, Curb records, Rosenklang Records |associated_acts = Shantel Baker, Polygram, Delfonics Greatest Hits &More, Mike Albert guitarist of Megadeth |website        = {{URL|https://www.linkedin.com/in/shari-verona-6158371/}} Shari Verona is an American popular songwriter.

Early life and career
Shari Verona joined Ascap at age nineteen, with three songs signed to Jack Gale, Lovey Music. She attended elementary school through college in North Miami Beach, Florida. She obtained her first production deal from Joe Tarsia of Philly Intl Records founded by Gamble and Huff and has spent much of her life behind the scenes, in the recording studio. With hundreds of releases, Verona has co-written for, and with a who’s who of old school legendary song masters such as Dave Appell who wrote "Let's Twist Again" and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon". Her compositions can be found on Delfonics album, Gene Anderson of Parliament Funkadelics, and has collaborated with new school writers such as Lil E, Preston Glass and Greg Williams. One of her first collaborators was hit country music writer Steve Bogard, when she approached Criteria recording studios in the 1970's. Verona wrote poetry from a very young age, when her lyrics caught his attention. At age 18, she was writing with mentors such as Rod Stewart writer Mark Barkan. A publisher encouraged the young poet to write the melodies, stating "the music does not do these lyrics justice".

She wrote and produced hundreds of commercials; including King Jeep Renault, Waterways, Yves St. Laurent, Sorbee Candy, the Playboy Channel. Other music can be found in motion pictures “A Cabin In Time”, “Lost Everything”, and a new cartoon Dawgs.

Verona partnered in Platinum recording Studio, Aventura Florida, with Grammy winning Two Live Crew member Disco Rick Taylor. After a delay in diagnosis, in 2005, she survived breast cancer. She also developed sitcom pilots for comedian Sherman Hemsley.

Shari Verona resides in Los Angeles, California.

Selected discography

 * 2000 - Gary Hall - Caught Up In The Moment
 * 2003 - Delfonics - Greatest Hits and More
 * 2015 - Verona Music/Rosenklang Records, various digital albums
 * 2018 - Writing film and tv soundtrack music with former Megadeth guitarist Mike Albert