Angelo Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti March 22 1937 - December 11 2022 Was An American Composer For Film And Television Best Known For His Hauntingly Atmospheric Work With Filmmaker David Lynch Whose Collaborations Include Blue Velvet Lost Highway And Mulholland Drive. He Received The Lifetime Achievement Award At The World Soundtrack Awards In 2008. Angelo Badalamenti Was Born In Brooklyn New York United States To An Italian Family. He Began Taking Piano Lessons At Age Eight And Spent Much Of His Childhood Listening To Opera And Classical Music. He Studied At The Eastman School Of Music And At Manhattan School Of Music Where He Earned A Master's Degree In Music. A Classically Trained Performer He Spent The Early Years Of His Career Playing The Catskills Resort Area Later Writing And Arranging For Singers Including Shirley Bassey And Country Star Mel Tillis. Under The Pseudonym Andy Badale He Entered The Film Industry In 1973 Debuting With The Score To The Action Film Gordon's War. Despite Subsequent Work On Such Features As Law And Disorder 1974 And Across The Great Divide 1976 Badalamenti Remained Largely Unknown. In 1986 Badalamenti Was Hired To Compose The Score For David Lynch's Blue Velvet Subsequently They Continued Their Partnership Badalamenti Composing Scores For Films Such As Wild At Heart And The Straight Story. Arguably The Most Famous Collaboration Of Theirs Was The Cult Hit Television Series Twin Peaks For Which Badalamenti Created One Of The Most Distinctive And Evocative Theme Songs In Television History. The Duo Also Wrote And Produced A Pair Of Records For Ethereal Chanteuse Julee Cruise Floating Into The Night 1989 Which Contained Some Songs From Twin Peaks And The Voice Of Love 1993 . They Also Staged An Avant-Garde Musical Theater Piece Titled Industrial Symphony No. 1 Which Was Shown Onstage Twice In 1989. In 1996 Collaborated With James Vocalist Tim Booth The Fruits Of Their Labors Being The LP Booth And The Bad Angel. In 2005 Badalamenti Composed Part Of The Score For The Video Game Fahrenheit Known In North America As Indigo Prophecy Bringing His Atmospheric Ambience To A New Medium. On December 11 2022 Badalamenti Died At His Home In Lincoln Park New Jersey Aged 85. read less