Angelo Badalamenti
- Genre: Soundtrack
- Active: '80s, '90s, 2000s
- Instruments: Keyboards, Piano
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| Born | March 22 1937 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Music |
Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22, 1937) is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for movie director David Lynch[citation needed], most notably[citation needed] Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga (1991-1992) and Mulholland Drive.
Badalamenti was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Sicilian mother and an Italian father and spent much of his childhood listening to opera and classical music. He studied at the Eastman and Manhattan Schools of Music where he earned a master's degree in music.
Badalamenti scored films such as Gordon's War, and Law and Disorder, but his big break came when he was brought in to be Isabella Rossellini's singing coach for the song "Blue Velvet" in David Lynch's classic film Blue Velvet. Rossellini was supposed to sing "Song to the Siren," a song by Tim Buckley, but Lynch was unable to secure the rights to use it. Badalamenti and Lynch collaborated to write "Mysteries of Love", using lyrics Lynch wrote and Badalamenti's music. Lynch asked Badalamenti to appear in the film as the piano player in the club where Rossellini's character performs. This film would be the first of many projects they would work together on.
After scoring a variety of mainstream films, including A
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and National
Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, he scored Lynch's cult television show, Twin
Peaks, which featured the vocals of Julee Cruise. Many of the songs from the
series were released on Cruise's album Floating into the Night. Other Lynch projects he
worked on include the movies Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost
Highway, and Mulholland Drive (where he has a small role as a
gangster with a finicky taste for espresso), as well as the
television shows On the Air and Hotel Room.
Other projects he has worked in include the television film Witch Hunt, and the films
Naked in New York, The City of
Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement,
In 2005, he composed the themes for the movie Napola which were then adapted for the score by Normand Corbeil.
In 1966, Badalamenti co-wrote a song ("Visa to the Stars") on Perrey and Kingsley's album The In Sound from Way Out. He is credited on the album as Andy Badale. In 1987, he lent his services to British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, arranging the orchestration on the dreamy and melancholic track "It Couldn't Happen Here". The recording foreshadows "Laura Palmer's Theme" from Twin Peaks in 1990, when he also arranged the strings on two tracks on the Pet Shop Boys' acclaimed Behaviour album.
In 1993, Badalamenti collaborated with thrash metal band Anthrax on the Twin Peaks-inspired track "Black Lodge" from the Sound of White Noise album. In 1995, he composed, orchestrated and produced Marianne Faithfull's album, titled A Secret Life. In 1996, Badalamenti teamed up with Tim Booth of the British rock band James. As Booth And The Bad Angel, they released an eponymous album on the Mercury label. In 2000, he worked with Orbital on the "Beached" single for the movie The Beach. In 2004, he composed the Evilenko soundtrack working with Dolores O'Riordan, who sang the main theme and with whom he is still collaborating. A new song by the two, "The Butterfly", is likely to be included in a yet to be announced movie.
In 2004, he was lead composer for the Atari/ Quantic Dream game Indigo Prophecy.
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