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Angelo Badalamenti
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American composer (1937–2022)
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Angelo Badalamenti (1937–2022) was an American male musician whose professional career spanned from 1971 to 2022. He was associated with genres including film score, film soundtrack, ambient, jazz, and instrumental music. Badalamenti, who also used the pseudonym Andy Badale, had two children.
His notable works include *Twin Peaks*. He is referenced by 463 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Twin Peaks
- Twin Peaks
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1937-03-22
- Active to
- 2022-12-11
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 821,550
- Total plays
- 19,398,019
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Angelo Daniel Badalamenti (22 March 1937 – 11 December 2022) was an American composer and arranger best known for his film and television scores, particularly his collaborations with director David Lynch. His most notable works include the music for "Blue Velvet" (1986), "Twin Peaks" (1990–1991; 2017), "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (1992), "The Straight Story" (1999), and "Mulholland Drive" (2001). Badalamenti also composed scores for other films such as "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer
· 2013 · cited 8,808x
- Nivolumab versus Docetaxel in Advanced Nonsquamous Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2015 · cited 7,897x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Angelo Daniel Badalamenti , ( 1937-03-22 ) March 22, 1937, New York City, New York, U.S.
- Died
- December 11, 2022 (2022-12-11) (aged 85), Lincoln Park, New Jersey , U.S.
- Genres
- Film score jazz ambient
- Years active
- 1962–2022
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Daniel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Lincoln Park
- Occupation
- conductor
- Educated at
- Manhattan School of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Blue Velvet
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- film score
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- London Records
- Official website
- www.angelo-badalamenti.com
- Image
- Angelo Badalamenti (yearbook).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- United States
Show 12 more facts
- date of birth
- 1937-03-22
- social media followers
- 14071
- pseudonym
- Andy Badale
- birth name
- Angelo Daniel Badalamenti
- name in native language
- Angelo Badalamenti
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Angelo Badalamenti
- start of work period
- 1971-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-12-11
- end of work period
- 2022-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Angelo Daniel Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 – December 11, 2022) was an American composer and arranger best known for his film music, notably the scores for his collaborations with director David Lynch, including Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks (1990–1991; 2017), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), The Straight Story (1999), and Mulholland Drive (2001).
Badalamenti also composed scores for such films as National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), The City of Lost Children (1995), Holy Smoke! (1999), and A Very Long Engagement (2004), and recorded songs with artists including Julee Cruise (in collaboration with Lynch), Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithfull, David Bowie, Tim Booth, Siouxsie Sioux and Dolores O'Riordan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Angelo Badalamenti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.