Angelo Badalamenti
Born	March 22, 1937 (1937-03-22) (age 70) Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality	American
Field	Music

Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22, 1937) is an Italian-American composer, best known for his movie soundtrack work for movie director David Lynch, most notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga (1991-1992) and Mulholland Drive is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_New_York. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Italian American is an American of Italian descent. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... For other persons named David Lynch, see David Lynch (disambiguation). ... Blue Velvet is an influential 1986 neo-noir mystery and thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. ... For the hills in San Francisco, see Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California. ... For the street in Los Angeles, see Mulholland Drive. ...

Background

He was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Sicilian mother and an Italian father and spent much of his childhood listening to opera and classical music. He studied at the Eastman and Manhattan Schools of Music where he earned a master's degree in music. He scored films such as Gordon's War, and Law and Disorder, but his big break came when he was brought in to be Isabella Rossellini's singing coach for the song "Blue Velvet" in David Lynch's classic film Blue Velvet. Rossellini was supposed to sing "Song to the Siren," a song by Tim Buckley, but Lynch was unable to secure the rights to use it. Badalamenti and Lynch collaborated to write "Mysteries of Love", using lyrics Lynch wrote and Badalamenti's music. Lynch asked Badalamenti to appear in the film as the piano player in the club where Rossellini's character performs. This film would be the first of many projects they would work together on. For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Gordons War is a 1973 action-film written by Howard Friedlander and Ed Spielman, and directed by Ossie Davis. ... Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and former supermodel. ... For other persons named David Lynch, see David Lynch (disambiguation). ... Blue Velvet is an influential 1986 neo-noir mystery and thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. ... Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an experimental vocalist and performer who incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul, and avant-garde rock in a short career spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...

After scoring a variety of mainstream films, including A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, he scored Lynch's cult television show, Twin Peaks, which featured the vocals of Julee Cruise. Many of the songs from the series were released on Cruise's album Floating into the Night. Other Lynch projects he worked on include the movies Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive (where he has a small role as a gangster with a finicky taste for espresso), as well as the television shows On the Air and Hotel Room. Other projects he has worked in include the television film Witch Hunt, and the films Naked in New York, The City of Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement, Dark Water and Secretary. He has also worked on the soundtrack for the video game Fahrenheit. His work on Fahrenheit has also been critically acclaimed, with the game breaking new ground, and being described as an 'interactive paranormal thriller'. Lately, he has been composer for director Paul Schrader on such films including Auto Focus, 'The Comfort of Strangers (film) and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (1989, Warner Bros. ... For the hills in San Francisco, see Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California. ... Julee Cruise (born 1 December 1956, in Creston, Iowa) is an American dream pop singer, and actress, best known for the lead vocal on Falling, the theme for the cult television series Twin Peaks. ... Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written for the screen and directed by David Lynch, based on Barry Giffords novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula about a young couple from South Carolina who, after Sailors return from prison, decide to go on... Fire Walk With Me is a 1992 movie directed by David Lynch and starring Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Chris Isaak, Kiefer Sutherland, Mädchen Amick, Phoebe Augustine and Dana Ashbrook. ... Lost Highway is a 1997 psychological thriller directed by David Lynch. ... For the street in Los Angeles, see Mulholland Drive. ... For other uses, see Gangster (disambiguation). ... Espresso brewing, with a dark reddish-brown foam, called crema or schiuma. ... This article should be transwikied to wiktionary In telecommunication, the term on-the-air can mean a station that is transmitting a carrier, whether or not the carrier is modulated. ... Hotel Room was a three episode 1993 HBO TV-Series produced by David Lynch (who directed two of them). ... 1533 account of the execution of a witch charged with burning the town of Schiltach in 1531. ... (1992)stars ralph macchio,eric stoltz,mary louise parker and a cameo by william styron listing all of his authored,penned and film work. ... The City of Lost Children (French: ) is a French fantasy/drama film by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet released in 1995. ... A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) is a novel by Sebastien Japrisot, first published in 1993. ... There have several films entitled Dark Water, these include: Dark Water (2002 movie), a Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata Dark Water (2005 movie), a remake of the 2002 film directed by Walter Salles Categories: Disambiguation ... Secretary DVD Secretary is a 2002 black comedy film based on the novella Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill. ... Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in the United States and Canada) is a video game that was released in September 2005. ... Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a screenwriter and film director, renowned for his characters that fall into desperation while their world crumbles around them. ... A device connected to an optical system. ... The Comfort of Strangers is a 1990 film directed by Paul Schrader. ...

In 2005, he has composed the background music for the movie Napola.

Collaborations

In 1966, Badalamenti co-wrote a song ("Visa to the Stars") on Perrey and Kingsley's album The In Sound from Way Out. He is credited on the album as Andy Badale. Album cover art from The In Sound from Way Out! The musical duo Perrey and Kingsley (Jean-Jacques Perrey, b. ...

In 1987, he lent his services to British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, arranging the orchestration on the dreamy and melancholic track "It Couldn't Happen Here". The recording foreshadows "Laura Palmer's Theme" from Twin Peaks in 1990, when he also arranged the strings on various tracks on the Pet Shop Boys' acclaimed Behaviour album. Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop/pop music grammy-nominated duo, consisting of Neil Tennant who provides main vocals, keyboards and very occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals. ... For the hills in San Francisco, see Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California. ... Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop/pop music grammy-nominated duo, consisting of Neil Tennant who provides main vocals, keyboards and very occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals. ... Behaviour is the fifth album, the fourth of entirely new music, by the UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. ...

In 1993, Badalamenti collaborated with thrash metal band Anthrax on the track "Black Lodge" from the Sound of White Noise album. Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by its signature high speed and aggression. ... Sound of White Noise is the name of the sixth album by the band Anthrax, released in May of 1993 on Elektra Records. ...

In 1995, he composed, orchestrated and produced Marianne Faithfull's album, titled A Secret Life. Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress whose career spans over four decades. ...

In 1996, Badalamenti teamed up with Tim Booth of the British rock band James. As Booth And The Bad Angel, they released an eponymous album on the Mercury label. Tim Booth in the video for Say Something Tim Booth (born Timothy John Booth, 4 February 1960, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England) attended Shrewsbury School. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mercury Records was a record label founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge. ...

In 2000, he worked with Orbital on the "Beached" single for the movie The Beach. Orbital was an English techno duo from 1989 until 2004, consisting of brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll. ... The Beach is a 2000 film by the Trainspotting team of writer John Hodge and director Danny Boyle based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland. ...

In 2004, he composed the Evilenko soundtrack working with Dolores O'Riordan, who sang the main theme and with whom he is still collaborating. A new song by the two, "The Butterfly", is likely to be included in a yet to be announced movie. Evilenko is a 2004 Italian movie very loosely based on the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. ... Dolores Mary Eileen ORiordan (Burton) (born September 6, 1971) is an Irish singer and songwriter. ...

In 2004, he was lead composer for the Atari/ Quantic Dream game Indigo Prophecy. Fahrenheit (Known as Indigo Prophecy in the US) is a videogame due for release in October 2005. ...

Quotes

• "My (musical) world is a little bit dark... a little bit off-center. I think of it as tragically beautiful. That is how I would describe what I love best: tragically beautiful."

Selected filmography

• Life of Pi (2009)
• The Eye (2007)
• The Wicker Man (2006)
• Dark Water (2005)
• Fahrenheit (2005)
• A Very Long Engagement (2002)
• Cabin Fever (2002)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• The Beach (2000)
• The Straight Story (1999)
• Arlington Road (1999)
• Girl on a Bridge (1999)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• La cité des enfants perdus (1995)
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• Twin Peaks (1990)
• Blue Velvet (film soundtrack) (1986)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1986)

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See also

• List of noted film producer and composer collaborations

The following soundtrack composers and film directors typically work together on projects. ...

External links

• Official Angelo Badalamenti website
• Angelo Badalamenti Myspace
• Angelo Badalamenti - a peak for David Lynch
• Yahoo Movies Biography of David Lynch
• Fansite Biography of David Lynch
• Angelo Badalamenti at the Internet Movie Database
• Angelo Badalamenti at All Music Guide