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Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an Academy-Award nominated Italian-American film composer. Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York, USA. (His father, born in Italy, taught mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; his mother was Greek...

Ennio Morricone, Grand Official of the Order of Merit of the Republic (born November 10, 1928), is an Academy Award-winning Italian composer. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions. Morricone wrote the characteristic...

John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for Jaws, ''Star Wars'', Superman, E.T. the Extra...

Michael Small (May 30, 1939 – November 24, 2003) was an American film score composer best known for his scores to thriller movies such as The Parallax View, Marathon Man, and The Star Chamber. Relatively few of his scores are available on compact disc.

Dominic Muldowney (born 1952 in Southampton) is a British composer. He studied at the universities of Southampton (with Jonathan Harvey) and York (with Bernard Rands and David Blake), and took private lessons with Harrison Birtwistle. From 1974 to 1976 he was...

Eurythmics (often incorrectly referred to as "The Eurythmics") is a British music duo, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous...

David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature film and television, and he has won numerous awards for his soundtrack work. Although he has worked in many musical styles...

James Roy Horner (born August 14 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film score, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements. Horner won two Academy Award for...

Ilayaraaja ( இளையராஜா in Tamil) (born June 2, 1943) is an Indian film composer. He has composed over 5000 songs and provided background music for more than 840 Indian films in various languages in a career spanning more than 30 years. He has won the Indian National...

Arthur Lange (April 16, 1889 - December 7, 1956) was a United States bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, including Grand Canary and Woman on the Run. Lange shared an Oscar nomination with Hugo Friedhofer for the...

Emil Newman (January 20, 1911—August 30, 1984) was an American composer and conductor who worked on over 200 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar for musical direction on the classic Sun Valley Serenade (1941). A native of Connecticut, Emil Newman...

Gabriel Yared (Arabic: جبرائيل يارد) (born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on...

Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon, France, September 13, 1924) is a French composer and conductor. Although he has composed several concert works, he is best known for his film score for motion pictures, particularly those of David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor...

Yuvan Shankar Raja (Tamil: யுவன் சங்கர் ராஜா)is one of top film music composers from Tamil Nadu. He is one of the most successful composers in South India. The first film he composed for was the Tamil film Aravindhan. Hailing from a musical family, much of Yuvan’s...

George Duning (February 25, 1908 – February 27, 2000) was an American musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco. During his...

Al Hoffman (September 25 1902–July 21 1960), a member of the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for many number one hits through each decade, many of which are...

Paul J. Smith (October 30, 1906 Calumet, Michigan - January 25, 1985) was an American music composer. He spent much of his life working at Disney as composer for many of its films' scores, animated and live-action alike, movie and television alike (from 1962 to 63, he...

David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores. Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving...

György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a Romania born 20th century composer. Born to a Hungarian-speaking Jewish family, he briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austria citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical music circles,...

Richard Georg Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era and early modern era, particularly noted for his tone poem and opera. Strauss was also a noted conductor. Strauss was born on June 11, 1864, in Munich, the son of...

Bass Brothers is the professional name for the team of Mark and Jeff Bass, the Detroit producers responsible for grooming rapper Eminem in his early days and collaborating on much of his subsequent music. Before that they worked with George Clinton. Tracks from those...

Luis Resto born Luis Edgardo Resto, is an Academy Award-winning hip-hop producer and keyboardist who has worked closely with rapper Eminem since his third major-label album The Eminem Show, cowriting several of the album's songs. He has played the keyboard for several...

Obie Trice III (born November 14 1977) is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. He began rapping at the age of 11, and had a number of underground hits such as "Respect", "My Club", "Dope Jobs Homeless", and "The Well Known Asshole" before he signed to Shady...

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa established himself as a prolific and highly distinctive composer, electric guitar player and band leader....