Randy Newman

Stuart Randall (Randy) Newman ( Los Angeles ( California ), November 28 1943 ) is an American composer and singer . He spent more than 35 albums out. He also wrote several soundtracks for films .



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[verbergen]  *1 Life  ==[Life  edit ] == Randy Newman in 1972Newman grew up in a musical family famous. His uncles Alfred, Lionel and Emil were respected film composers. His father, Irving wrote a song for Bing Crosby . Newman was in his seventeenth year professional songwriter for a publisher in Los Angeles. When he with the help of his friend Lenny Waronker got a recording contract with Reprise, he stopped hack and focused on a career as a singer / songwriter.
 * 2 Discography
 * 3 Hit
 * 3.1 Albums
 * 3.2 Singles
 * 3.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 4 External links

His orchestral debut in 1968 Randy Newman Creates Something New Under The Sun was not an immediate success in sales, but the songs of the album were put in a short time by various artists on the record. With his next album, 12 songs (1970) Newman garnered widespread praise. During the seventies he made ​​several albums, including Sail Away , Good Old Boys and Little Criminals .

Typical of his hits are the biting satirical texts, as God's Song from the album Sail Away. There he lets God say why he loves the people, although he burns down the towns and their children decreases. People say they are blessed with such a Lord. You must all be crazy to put your faith in me! That's why I love mankind!. Several times Newman was criticized or even sued because of cynical lyrics that are misunderstood by many Americans. The text of Short People shot at many little people in the wrong way.

Since the eighties Newman divides his time between recording new albums and composing for films. For his soundtracks and film songs he received so far (2015) twenty Oscar nominations, two of which were cashed. Newman won one Oscar for Best Movie Song in 2002 with the song If I Did not Have You from [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_en_co. Monsters, Inc.] Newman said about that:. The impact of the Oscar lasted about a day and a half. The other Oscar in the 'Best Original Song', he received in 2011 for We Belong Together from the movieToy Story 3 . He also received a Grammy Award for the score of The Natural and an Emmy Award for his music Cop Rock . In 2010, Newman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . ==[Discography  edit ] == ==[Hit  edit ] == ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Albums  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Single  Edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000 <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===