 | | Actor Garrett John Hedlund was born September 3, 1984 in Roseau, MN, the youngest of Kristi and Robert Hedlund’s three children. |
 | | A popular actress largely known for her mix of sexy and often critically acclaimed performances, Scarlett Johansson is also a vocalist. |
 | | She's played quite a few high-energy freaks for Hollywood, but none of her silver screen characters can prepare audiences for the over-the-top ferociousness Juliette Lewis unleashes when fronting her band, the New Romantiques. |
 | | She & Him feature the somewhat unlikely pairing of country-folk artist M. Ward and actress/singer/songwriter Zooey Deschanel. |
 | | Though she had already won accolades for her acting in movies like Brokeback Mountain, Rachel Getting Married, and The Dark Knight Rises, there was little inkling that Anne Hathaway could also sing until she snagged the role of Fantine in director Tom Hooper's 2012 film adaptation of the blockbuster 1980 musical Les Misérables. |
 | | Composer Mikael Tariverdiev was born on August 15, 1931, in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, the U.S.S. |
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 | | Major film composer Alan Silvestri became interested in music early, playing drums from age three and learning woodwinds and guitar. |
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 | | Producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion grew up in a musical family: his father was director of the Yale concert and marching bands, his mother sang in jazz bands, and his siblings, Randy (a conductor/arranger in L. |
 | | Born in Perivale, Middlesex, England, Rick Wakeman's interest in music manifested itself very early, and from the age of seven on he studied classical piano. |
 | | During the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s, David Foster was among the most commercially successful producers and composers in all of popular music, lending his signature sweeping power ballad aesthetic to smash hits from Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, and Josh Groban while virtually defining the adult contemporary format. |
 | | By some reckoning, Anton Karas was the quintessential one-hit wonder, a man associated the world over with one song, and one song only, "The Third Man Theme" (also known as "The Harry Lime Theme. |
 | | It's unusual to find a vocal album as appealing as Lee Lessack in these days of cabaret excess. Lee Lessack's album shimmers with the highest quality production values, enchants with wonderful song selections, and struts with an assured vocal performance from the 6'4" singer. |
 | | With his avuncular appearance and rich baritone, African-born British pop singer Roger Whittaker seemed like a late successor to Bing Crosby when he emerged into worldwide popularity in the '70s. |
 | | Best known as the creative force behind the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show, Seth MacFarlane is also a rabid music enthusiast, frequently using his shows for interpretations of his most beloved show tunes or cracking jokes at Celine Dion or Rick Astley’s expense. |
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 | | French film composer Georges Delerue studied his craft under prestigious movie musician Darius Milhaud. |
 | | Russian composer Andrei Petrov was born on September 2, 1930, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Upon his graduation from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1954, he went on to compose several instrumental pieces (the symphonic poem "Radda and Loiko," the ballets "The Station Master," and "The Shore of Hope. |
 | | An important behind-the-scenes figure in popular music for 40 years, composer/songwriter/producer/arranger/studio musician Jack Nitzsche served a crucial function in 1960s rock & roll, bringing a trained musician's know-how to bear on the work of more instinctive rockers in a way that complemented and deepened their work. |
 | | Although film actress and Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe has been the subject of a large number of albums, she rarely stepped into a recording studio to make a commercial recording and only appeared in five real movie musicals (with a few other musical performances in her straight films), making for a total record and soundtrack output of less than three dozen titles that are recycled endlessly along with bits of movie dialogue and radio and TV appearances on the frequent reissues. |
 | | A second-generation member of Hollywood's preeminent musical dynasty, composer Thomas Newman carried on his family's legacy through a series of Academy Award-nominated film scores. |
 | | While better known as an actor thanks to his immortal role as television's bumbling Gomer Pyle, Jim Nabors also enjoyed a successful career as an easy listening balladeer. |
 | | Actor Don Johnson was riding high on the massive success of his television series Miami Vice when he turned to pop music, making his debut with the LP Heartbeat in 1986. |
 | | Jonathan Barry Prendergast -- aka John Barry -- was one of the world's best-known and most popular film score composers. |
 | | Actress/singer Jane Russell was best known as Marilyn Monroe's brunette sidekick in the 1953 movie adaptation of the 1949 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and for her other appearances in films of the 1940s and '50s, notably her debut in the racy (for its time) The Outlaw. |
 | | South Florida pop trio the Postmarks formed in 2004 when Christopher Moll and Jonathan Wilkins, who had collaborated previously in the group See Venus, signed up singer Tim Yehezkely and began recording together. |
 | | Best known in his native U.S. for the television hits Knight Rider and Baywatch, actor David Hasselhoff also enjoyed success throughout Europe as a recording star. |
 | | Randy Newman was an anomaly among early-'70s singer/songwriters. Though he was slightly influenced by Bob Dylan, his music owed more to New Orleans R&B and traditional pop than folk. |
 | | Noor Jehan is one of the most influential singers in the eastern world. Often compared to Lata Mangeshkar, Jehan has successfully balanced movie soundtracks with non-film recordings and performances. |
 | | French guitarist Claude Ciari has the rare distinction of being the first Caucasian to run for a seat in the upper house of the government of Japan. |
 | | Philadelphia native Alexander Courage was famous for co-writing the theme for the original Star Trek TV series with the show's creator Gene Roddenberry. |
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 | | Leopold Anthony Stokowski, one of the true conducting luminaries of the twentieth century, was born in London in 1882. |
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 | | While he has come to be derided for his work in the pop-rock arena -- particularly his contributions to Yes' disastrous Union album -- Jonathan Elias has had a fairly lengthy career as an underscore composer for motion pictures and television, beginning with the music for Children of the Corn. |
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 | | Australian TV and film composer Robert J. Kral has a number of television series credits including The Dresden Files, Jake 2. |
 | | There are few Italian film composers who can boast the prolificacy of Peiro Piccioni. Since the early '50s Piccioni has been a truly innovative composer of music for film and has been justly compared to the likes of Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicola. |
 | | The most famous and prolific composer ever to grace the field of television music, Mike Post contributed some of the most memorable themes in the medium's history, writing scores for programs including Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P. |
 | | One of the most versatile and talented French film composers, with over 200 scores on his resumé, Philippe Sarde is unfortunately little known outside of his home country. |
 | | English composer John Powell honed his craft, along with contemporaries like Harry Gregson-Williams and Klaus Badelt, as a member of Hanz Zimmer's Remote Control Productions. |
 | | Born on January 6, 1963 in San Diego, California, songwriter, composer, producer, and arranger Aaron Zigman has written songs for Carly Simon and the Jets, arranged works for Aretha Franklin and Natalie Cole, and composed scores for numerous films, including The Notebook, Sex and the City, My Sister's Keeper, and Step Up. |
 | | Dimitri Tiomkin was one of the most successful European emigre musicians in Hollywood. He studied at the St. |
 | | British composer George Fenton certainly has a magic touch when it comes to composing scores for motion pictures. |
 | | Austrian-born film composer Max Steiner was the grandson of the musical impresario who discovered Strauss and brought Offenbach to Vienna. |
 | | Pop singer Frankie Valli was permanently associated with the group for which he served as lead singer, the Four Seasons. |