Award-winning songwriter Billy Steinberg, who wrote several top hit songs, including Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” died Feb. 18. He was 75.

Mr. Steinberg wrote some of the biggest pop hits of the 1980s and 1990’s, and was behind songs performed by Whitney Houston Celine Dion, Cyndi Lauper, and Madonna.

“Billy Steinberg’s life was a testament to the enduring power of a well-written song — and to the idea that honesty, when set to music, can outlive us all,” his family said in a statement.

He won a Grammy Award in 1997 for his work on Celine Dion’s “Falling Into You.” He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2011.