Mario Millo
Mario Millo ( born May 17, 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales as Mario Daniel Millo ) is an Australian musician, composer and songwriter. He has composed the music for the feature films The Lighthorsemen, My horses - my love and PC - A genius in paws
- 4.1 Film Music
- 4.2 Studio albums
Life and work
Mario Millo was born in 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Italian immigrants in Australia. At the age of five years, his father taught him to play the mandolin, with eight, he learned to play guitar. With twelve years Millo had his own band called The Menu at the Mitchell High School in Blacktown. The menu consisted of: Mario Millo (guitar and vocals ), Mark Friedland (drums), Vince Moult (bass) and Brian Nicholls (organ). The band won the 1969 Pepsi Pop Poll which took place at the " Battle of the Bands at the Sydney Stadium. As a result, they signed a contract with a music agency in Sydney and were renamed The Clik. A single names La De Da appeared on Festival Records in November 1969. a second single, Mary Mary, was published in March 1970. Coca -Cola and Fanta sponsored the band in a series of television spots and they sent the young band on tour through Australia and New Zealand. 1971, the band broke then. Millo toured for six months Europe and returned in early 1972 to Australia to the reformed band The Clik back. Well with Garry Adams on lead guitar, Doug Bligh on drums (both ex- Galadriel ) and Phil Cogan on bass. however, the band split up in October 1973 again. Thereafter Millo member of the symphonic rock group Sebastian Hardie. 's debut album for a group called Four Moments (1975 ) reached number 13 of the Australian Kent Music Report album Charts. The resolution of Sebastian Hardie followed in 1977.
Millo then made a solo career and composed music for film and television soundtracks and scores. In 1978 he worked with Jon Deutsch on the soundtrack for the TV series Against the Wind. A single called Six Ribbons was disengaged. Both album and the single reached the top 10 places on the corresponding Kent Music Report charts. The series ran internationally. As Mot alla vindar the single in 1980, especially in the Scandinavian countries was announced that the album and the single number 1 in the list of number-one hits in Norway and reached 4th place in Sweden.
Millos compositions for films and television series have won several awards in Australia, including the prestigious Australian Film Institute Award for Simon Wincers The Lighthorsemen.
For Brides of Christ, he won the 1992 Australian Record Industry Association Award for Best Original Soundtrack Album category. Millo has been awarded several times for the same price. 1997 G. P. and again in 2002 for Changi.
Mario Millo lives and works in New South Wales, Australia.