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James Newton Howard

An eight-time Oscar nominee and a winner of the prestigious Grammy Award, James Newton Howard's musical genius has graced more than a hundred movies across all genres for the past four decades. A classically trained pianist, he started out by associating with several short-lived music bands in the early 1970s, and got his big break when he joined Elton John's band as a keyboardist and orchestrator. Subsequently, Howard made his debut as a film score composer with the satirical black comedy Head Office (1985).
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