Biography
A talented musician and composer Danny Elfman has an interesting biography. In all her life, he happened to work on the most different projects, including the cartoons, popular paintings, with orchestras and rock bands. Despite the long years of work, a man is not going to move away from the affairs, he is happy to write music with pleasure, although it has problems with hearing.Childhood and youth
Danny was born in the spring of 1953 in Los Angeles. His mother Blosso Elfman on the nationality of the Jewish, became famous as a children's writer. Also, they had Russian and Poles. Father worked as a teacher. Most of his free time, the boy spent at a local cinema, where she discovered scientific fiction paintings and horror films. In the same time, first drew attention to the music of composers Bernard Herrman and Franz Waxman.
In school years, Elfman showed more interest in science than to creativity, he was even eliminated from the local orchestra. Everything changed only in high school in the late 1960s, when Danny began to spend more time with friends who were listening to the early jazz.
In his youth, the musician wanted to see the world, so after school went with his brother Rich to France to work in a circus, and then on a trip to Africa, where he planned to collect a collection of West African musical instruments. Ill there, he returned home before the scheduled time. By the time, his brother was already founded by the Oingo Boingo group, to which Elfman joined.
Personal life
Elfman does not like to spread about personal life. It is known that in 2003 his wife became an actress Bridget Foundation, who gave the wife of the Son Oliver. From the past relations of the man remained two children, both girls, Lola and Mali. The younger Mali also showed himself creatively, worked as a film producer and herself was shot in films.Embed from getty imagesDanny leads pages in "Instagram" and "Twitter", where publishes news about new projects, as well as personal photos. Its growth is 178 cm.
Music
Music career Danny began with the said Ohingo Boingo group, from which Rich left (took up director), leaving her brother. The younger elfman was revealed there, sang songs with enthusiasm, played and composed compositions. The first in the life of the soundtrack wrote for the film "Forbidden zone", where he himself performed the role of Devil-Jazzman.
Subsequently, the team, under the leadership of the composer, existed for 18 years, recorded 8 albums, traveled half a hundred with concerts and broke up in 1995. By that time, a man worked with various films and TV shows, wrote music for them, the group paid less attention to them. In addition, constant staying on the stage under the "screaming" speakers had a negative impact on the hearing of the artist, which he could not afford.
Further Career Elfman began to develop rapidly. Together with the director Tim Burton, he participated in the work on the comedy "Big Adventure of Pi-W", the men had similar views and quickly worked. After the first display, the paintings on the screens were both woken by famous, since then Danny almost did not receive suggestions from other directors to write a soundtrack.
Later in an interview, he shared an interesting fact: then the man was not interested in money from projects, he received pleasure from work, especially when it was about expensive and high-quality ribbons.
Among the most significant works of Elfman, the films "Batman", "Edward Hand Scissors", "Bitljus", "Nightmare Before Christmas", "Spiderman", "Dick Tracy", "Oz: Great and Horrible" , "Fifty shades of gray" and others. For them, he could not once nominated for the Grammy Awards, Emmy and Saturn.
Danny Elfman now
The composer still remains in the ranks and continues to delight fans with musical works. He cooperates with Tim Burton, in the spring of 2019, the premiere of the full-length film "Dambo", film adaptation of the cartoon of the same name, music for which was composed by Elfman. And in January 2020, a picture of the "Amazing journey of Dr. Dulitt", the soundtrack for which Danny was also written were shown.Filmography
- 1985 - "Big Pi-V Adventure"
- 1997 - "People in black"
- 2001 - "Children of Spies"
- 2004 - "Spiderman - 2"
- 2005 - "Charlie and Chocolate Factory"
- 2010 - "Alice in Wonderland"
- 2012 - "People in Black - 3"
- 2013 - "Oz: Great and Horrible"
- 2015 - "Fifty shades of gray"
- 20156 - "Alice in the Watercalle"
- 2016 - "Girl in the train"
- 2017 - "League of Justice"
- 2018 - "Don't worry, he will not go far on foot"
- 2019 - "Dambo"
- 2020 - "Amazing journey of Dr. Dulitt"
Discography
As part of Oingo Boingo
- 1982 - ONLY A LAD
- 1982 - NOTHING TO FEAR
- 1983 - GOOD FOR YOUR SOUL
- 1984 - SO-LO
- 1985 - Dead Man's Party
- 1987 - BOI-NGO
- 1990 - Dark AT The End of the Tunnel
- 1994 - Boingo.
Saltic
- 2008 - Milk.
- 2019 - Violin Concerto "Eleven Eleven" and Piano Quartet