Artist: Danny Elfman
Genre(s):
Pop
Soundtrack
Discography:
Good Will Hunting
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Year: 1993
Tracks: 20
Best known for his make in quislingism with conductor Tim Burton, composer Danny Elfman created one of the most classifiable bodies of exercise in contemporary celluloid music, bringing his talents to a saturnine phantasy cosmos populated by superheroes, monsters and freaks. The son of novelist Blossom Elfman, he was natural May 29, 1953 in Amarillo, Texas; raised in Los Angeles, he and brother Richard relocated to France in 1971, where he coupled a theatrical group. Elfman subsequently moved on to Africa, returning to the U.S. only after battling a bout with malaria; he then reunited with Richard, world Health Organization had directed the 1980 film The Forbidden Zone and asked Danny to frame the score. Assembling a ring dubbed the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo, Elfman recorded the movie's soundtrack; truncated to simply Oingo Boingo, the group remained a departure concern following the project's mop up, afterwards earning a significant cult following during the New Wave earned run average.
In 1985 Elfman met fledgling film maker Burton; after collaborating on the score to the attain Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, they reunited oftentimes in the geezerhood to fare, with Elfman composing the music to afterwards Burton projects including Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and the Grammy-winning Batman. In 1993 Elfman also scored the Burton-produced Nightmare Before Christmas, dubbing the vocals of the animated musical's lead character Jack Skellington. Outside of Burton's sector of influence, Elfman also scored a telephone number of other features, about of them strange fables such as Darkman, Dick Tracy, Army of Darkness and The Frighteners; in 1997, he composed the music for Workforce in Black, the summer's biggest hit. Among his boob tube make: the base song to The Simpsons.
