She composed the soundtrack for the film War Story and the song "Speak to Me" for the horror film Voice from the Stone. Her philanthropic side is evident in her active participation in various charity events and causes, particularly those revolving around epilepsy, a condition that her younge...
The Mirror (London, England)
For me, I never could warm up to the film. I tried several times but found Bob Hoskins and the animated characters so loud and so abrasive that it turned me off, big-time. Yeah, I was as amazed as anyone at some of the scenes, how seamlessly they blended it all to make it look...
Erick also watchedThe Godfatheron repeat when he wrote the track – well, watching on mute. He always has something playing while working in the studio. “I like to have something moving that I can pull inspiration from.” Ellington Hammond Adamant about not using Auto-Tune but determined to...
26 – Jerry Herman, Composer/lyricist – composed the music for Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles won 3 Tony Awards – age 88 27 – Don Imus, Controversial radio personality/TV host – radio career ran from 1968-2018 most of that time his show was “Imus in the Morning”...
Beginning with Little Johnny Jones in 1904, he wrote, composed, produced, and appeared in more than three dozen Broadway musicals. Cohan wrote more than 50 shows and published more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including the standards "Over There", "Give My Regards to Broadway", "The...
[Vince Power: Waterford-born ‘Godfather of Gigs’ who rocked the UK music sceneOpens in new window] Looking back on Power’s life, it was indisputable, the priest said, that Power had achieved both of those things. He approached life with “great kindness, em...
Shorter composed 20 albums as a bandleader of the Weather Report. He also recorded several albums for Blue Note Records, composing the majority of the music. 48. Zandra Flemister U.S. Secret Service agent Zandra Flemister has died at the age of 71. She was the first Black woman to serv...
Shorter composed 20 albums as a bandleader of the Weather Report. He also recorded several albums for Blue Note Records, composing the majority of the music. 40. Zandra Flemister U.S. Secret Service agent Zandra Flemiste...
Shorter composed 20 albums as a bandleader of the Weather Report. He also recorded several albums for Blue Note Records, composing the majority of the music. 49. Zandra Flemister U.S. Secret Service agent Zandra Flemister has died at the age of 71. She was the first Black woman to serv...