Artist: Bill Conti
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
New Age
Instrumental
Discography:
The Thomas Crown Affair
Year: 1999
Tracks: 32
Blood In Blood Out
Year: 1993
Tracks: 22
The Big Blue (aka Le Grand Bleu)
Year: 1988
Tracks: 22
Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets
Year: 1984
Tracks: 5
Escape To Victory
Year: 1981
Tracks: 11
Rocky 1
Year: 1976
Tracks: 13
A fecund composer of film and idiot box music, Bill Conti remains nigh intimately associated with his work on the successful Jolting films. Born April 13, 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island, he conditioned piano from his father of the Church, and later took up the bassoon. While perusal composition at Louisiana State University, Conti also performed with the school's symphonic music orchestra, disbursal his evenings acting jazz in area clubs; he afterwards earned his Master's academic degree from Julliard earlier relocating to Italy in 1967. There he first stony-broke into films, composing and transcription music for productions including Juliette de Sade and Candidate Per un Assassino. In 1971 Conti scored Vittorio de Sica's Oscar-winning Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, delivery his euphony to the attention of international audiences; he subsequently returned to the U.S., where he composed the soundtracks for features including 1973's Blume in Love and 1974's Harry and Tonto.
Conti shot to fame in 1976 with his score for Rocky; the soundtrack album went platinum, and the main theme, "Gonna Fly Now," topped the U.S. pop charts. Conti and asterisk Sylvester Stallone subsequently reunited for chapters 2, trey and five-spot in the Rough series, as intimately as 1978's F.I.S.T. and Eden Alley; in 1981 he scored the James Bond feature For Your Eyes Only, marking a Top Five reach with the claim rails, song by Sheena Easton. After two premature nominations, Conti south Korean won an Oscar in 1983 for his exercise on The Right Stuff; at around the same fourth dimension he became a fecund composer of televison themes, writing music for serial including Dallas, Falcon Crest, Cagney and Lacey and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. He too served as musical director for a number of Academy Awards telecasts, taking an Emmy for his work on the 1992 ceremony.
