Music
by kevedw1 | created - 10 Apr 2020 | updated - 11 months ago | PublicOriginal Song and Score
1. Karen O
Soundtrack | Where the Wild Things Are
Karen O was born on November 22, 1978 in South Korea. She is a composer and actress, known for Where the Wild Things Are (2009), Her (2013) and The Happytime Murders (2018). She has been married to Barnaby Clay since December 2011. They have one child.
2. Tom Waits
Actor | Seven Psychopaths
Thomas Alan Waits was born in Pomona, California, to schoolteachers Alma Fern (Johnson) and Jesse Frank Waits. Described as one of the last beatniks of the contemporary music, Waits in fact has two separate careers. From 1973 (LP "Closing Time") to 1983 ("One From The Heart" soundtrack), he ...
3. RZA
Soundtrack | The Man with the Iron Fists
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs better known by his stage name the RZA, is an American rapper, actor, filmmaker, and record producer. He is the DE factor leader of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, having produced most albums for the group and its respective members. He is a cousin of two other original ...
4. Iggy Pop
Actor | Cry-Baby
Iggy Pop was born on April 21, 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Cry-Baby (1990), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) and Dead Man (1995). He has been married to Nina Alu since November 22, 2008. He was previously married to Suchi Asano and Wendy Weissberg.
5. Jimmy Jam
Self | 64th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony
Jimmy Jam was born on June 6, 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for 64th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony (2022). He has been married to Lisa Padilla since June 25, 1994. They have three children.
6. George Clinton
Composer | Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus
George Clinton was born on July 22, 1941 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus (2017), Kuso (2017) and Good Burger (1997). He has been married to Stephanie Lynn Goshorn since September 25, 1990.
7. Mavis Staples
Soundtrack | My Blueberry Nights
Mavis Staples was born on July 10, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for My Blueberry Nights (2007), The Help (2011) and Dumplin' (2018).
8. Jill Jones
Actress | Purple Rain
Jill Jones is known for Purple Rain (1984), The Women's Club (1987) and Jill Jones: Mia Bocca (1987).
9. Michaela Coel
Actress | Chewing Gum
Michaela was born on October 1st 1987 as Michaela Boakye-Collinson to Ghanaian parents and brought up in Tower Hamlets by her mother, a devout member of the Pentecostal church who instilled her religion into Michaela and her sister - something that she would later draw on for her play 'Chewing Gum ...
10. Richard Band
Composer | From Beyond
Richard Howard Band is an American composer of film and television music. He has scored more than 100 films, including From Beyond which won the award for Best Original Soundtrack at the Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival. His score for Re-Animator was lauded by the magazine Music From ...
11. Bear McCreary
Composer | The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Bear McCreary is a degreed graduate of the prestigious USC Thornton School of Music (in 'Composition and Recording Arts'). Bear McCreary was one of a small and select group of proteges of the late, many-honored film composer Elmer Bernstein. Although he is now firmly in the mainstream of film ...
12. David Byrne
Soundtrack | True Stories
David Byrne is an Oscar winning composer, songwriter and singer, best known for being frontman of the New Wave/punk band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Born in Scotland but raised in the United States in Maryland, Byrne began performing musically in high school.
Byrne ...
13. Donald Glover
Actor | Solo: A Star Wars Story
The multi-talented Donald Glover is a writer, actor, musician, comedian, producer and director, who performs under the stage names Childish Gambino and mcDJ. He was born Donald McKinley Glover at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His mother, Beverly (...
14. Nym Kim
Producer | Poker Face
Nym Kim is known for Poker Face (2022), Passion (1999) and The Cup (1995).
15. Jean Grae
Actress | Life with Jeannie
Jean Grae (Tsidi Ibrahim) was originally from South Africa, but says that she will always be a New Yorker by heart. She is the daughter of two jazz musicians. Jean learned an appreciation for all genres of music at 9. She attended the High School of Performing Arts as a vocal major and was later ...
16. John Legend
Soundtrack | La La Land
John Roger Stephens, known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. He began his musical career by working behind the scenes, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything", and making uncredited guest appearances on Jay-Z's "Encore" ...
17. Tariq Trotter
Soundtrack | Zoolander 2
As Co-Founder of The Roots, a critically acclaimed solo artist, actor, writer, activist, producer, and creator, Tariq Trotter-aka Black Thought-has quietly affirmed himself as one of the most prolific, prescient, and powerful voices in hip-hop.
Over the course of his career, he has won three GRAMMY®...
18. Quincy Jones
Producer | The Color Purple
Considered to be one of the greatest minds in music and television history, Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. was born on March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the son of Sarah Frances (Wells), a bank executive, and Quincy Delight Jones, Sr., a carpenter.
Jones found his love for music while he was ...
19. Michelle Kath Sinclair
Director | The Terry Kath Experience
Michelle Kath Sinclair was born on May 19, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a director and producer, known for The Terry Kath Experience (2016), As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM (2015) and Before the Fade. She has been married to Adam Sinclair since May 6, 2004. They have two ...
20. Trent Reznor
Soundtrack | The Social Network
Trent Reznor is an American songwriter/musician/producer and sole member of multi-platinum act Nine Inch Nails, and now an Academy Award, Emmy and Grammy Award winning film composer. He began creating music as a child in Western Pennsylvania, first on piano and then taking up other instruments. He ...
21. Miriam A. Hyman
Actress | Power Book IV: Force
Miriam A. Hyman is an American actress. She was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and raised in Philadelphia. Hyman is a BFA graduate from University of the Arts and a MFA graduate from the Yale School of Drama. From bringing diverse, impactful characters to life on the screen and stage, to writing ...
22. Gry Bay
Actress | Last Exit
Gry Bay was born on August 15, 1974 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Last Exit (2003), All About Anna (2005) and Little Big Boy (2012).
23. Questlove
Producer | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Questlove was born on January 20, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021), Top Five (2014) and Detroit (2017).
24. The Lady of Rage
Actress | Judas and the Black Messiah
The Lady of Rage was born on February 6, 1966 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Next Friday (2000) and The Steve Harvey Show (1996).
25. Dooley Wilson
Actor | Casablanca
"You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh; the fundamental things apply, as time goes by...". . The gentleman who crooned this now legendary tune for the morose Humphrey Bogart and moist-eyed Ingrid Bergman at Rick's Cafe Americain amid the bleak WWII backdrop was none ...
26. Maryam Hassan
Actress | School of Rock
Maryam Hassan now goes by the music artist name 'Mayhrenate' (pronounced like 'Mare-En-Nate'). She has been releasing music as a Singer/Songwriter/Vocal Arranger for herself and other artists. Her silky tone, angelic harmonies, and addictive melodies create an undeniable 'feel-good' vibe. Since The...
27. Miranda Cosgrove
Actress | Despicable Me 2
Miranda Taylor Cosgrove was born May 14, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, to Christina (Casey) and Tom Cosgrove, who owns a dry-cleaning business. She was discovered at a young age singing and dancing around a table in a restaurant, where an agent saw her talent and quickly signed her. Miranda's ...
28. Lalo Schifrin
Music_department | Rush Hour
Immensely talented, Argentinian born pianist, conductor and composer who has written over 100 scores for both television & the cinema including the memorable themes to Mission: Impossible (1966), Mannix (1967), Starsky and Hutch (1975), Cool Hand Luke (1967), and Bullitt (1968). Schifrin has ...
29. Tobe Nwigwe
Soundtrack | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Tobechukwu Dubem "Tobe" Nwigwe is a world renown freestyle lyricist and Hip Hop artist who hails from Southwest Alief, TX, which also known as the SWAT. His wife, Martica "Fat" Nwigwe, is also an accomplished lyricist who has collaborated with her husband and featured on many tracks on his albums. ...
30. Halle Bailey
Actress | The Little Mermaid
Halle Bailey was born on March 27, 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Little Mermaid (2023), The Color Purple (2023) and Last Holiday (2006).
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