Robert Kraft (composer)

Robert Mark force ( born February 4, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American jazz pianist, composer, songwriter, record producer and manager who has long worked for the Fox Music.

Life and work

Force, which completed his studies with honors from Harvard University in 1976, began his career as a jazz musician. With his band, Ivory Coast, he played in clubs in New York and published in 1979 his first album Mood Swing on RSO Records. In 1980, he performed at the Newport Jazz Festival in New York's Town Hall. The next album Ready to Bounce was initially not published because his label went bankrupt. Appeared in 1982 on RCA Records Retroactive he with such musicians as Larry Carlton, Bill Reichenbach, Alex Acuna and Paulinho Da Costa recorded. He has also composed for transfer Bette Midler, Roberta Flack, Diane Schuur, Los Lobos and The Manhattan.

From 1989 he worked in the studios of Hollywood. This year he was co - producer of the music of the animated film The Little Mermaid, including the Oscar-nominated song Under the Sea. The he produced music of The Muppet Christmas Carol was nominated for an Oscar; He also composed the song Hudson Hawk, the theme song of the eponymous film of 1991, on the screenplay he was involved.

For the song, Beautiful Maria of My Soul, which he co-wrote with Arne Glimcher for the film The Mambo Kings, he was nominated in 1993 for an Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe Award and (as Mambo Caliente ) for a Grammy. A second nomination for a Golden Globe Award was made for the song How Can I Not Love You, which he wrote with George Fenton and Kenneth Edmonds for the film Anna and the King.

As President of Fox Music, he was responsible for the soundtracks of more than 300 films 1994-2012. He was a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and serves on the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on. Since 2013 he works as a consultant for the film music division of Warner Brothers. He also appears again as a musician.

Force was honored in 2002 for his services to the City of Hope Spirit of Life Award; In 2010 he received the Spirit of Excellence in the Arts Award by the TJ Martell Foundation.