Mark Mancina
Mark Mancina ( born March 9, 1957 in Santa Monica, California) is an American composer who works mainly for Hollywood productions.
Biography
Mark Mancina studied at California State University in Fullerton, California, 6 years, composition and role play. At this time he wanted to pursue a career as a singer and earned a piano vocalist in night clubs some money to do so. Later he had in the eighties own band called Dexter, which he won insight into the different styles of pop music and eventually became a music producer.
He could later excel as a composer mainly by his brilliant musical accompaniment for the rapid speed film whose soundtrack landed in the summer of 1994 at # 1 on the Billboard charts. Within a year, he repeated this position with his soundtrack to the movie Bad Boys - Harte Jungs.
His intensive work in the film business began with the collaborative work to Days of Thunder and True Romance, where he among other things, collaborated with Hans Zimmer. Subsequently, he composed the original soundtrack for the movie Monkey Trouble and worked his way through various other films such as Money Train, Moll Flanders or Twister in the upper ranks of composers - up.
Mark Mancina produced for some of the most successful artists in popular music, such as for Seal at its number - one single ( in the UK) Crazy, Billy Idol, Yes in the album Union and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. While he is active on the two rails of film music and pop music, he arranged three Elton John songs from Disney's The Lion King, which earned him the American Music Award in the category Favorite Pop / Rock album and a Grammy Award in the Best category children's earned her album. His later work on The Lion King in the Broadway version can win a Grammy him again. But this time in the category of Best Musical Show Album.
He also realized in television, where he wrote for example soundtracks for the CBS series Space Rangers and the excellent documentary series Millennium.
In addition, he set some commercials, such as for Marlboro, GTE, Black & Decker, Reebock, J. C. Penney, Jaguar and Diet Rite.