Mark Mancina

A versatile display screen composer who broke through in the ’90s with action blockbusters like Speed and Twister, Tag Mancina can be known for his many collaborations with Disney, including Tarzan and Moana. Delivered and elevated in Southern California, Mancina researched classical electric guitar and piano from an early on age, and will often be noticed playing electric guitar, keyboards, bass, and/or percussion on his rating recordings. Though he previously a classical history, he got to songwriting in senior high school, and broke into film by composing instrumental music for documentaries. He arrived some action movies in the past due ’80s, such as for example 1987’s Mankillers and 1988’s Trend to Eliminate, which resulted in ongoing tasks in film and tv. His stock increased in 1994 after Hans Zimmer asked him to create and arrange three of Elton John’s tracks for the Disney film The Lion Ruler. Not only do the soundtrack acquire him a Grammy Award, but a tune he co-wrote for the task that wasn’t found in the film was resurrected for the 1997 Broadway musical edition (“They Reside in You”/”He Lives in You”), getting him another Grammy because of its ensemble album. The entire year 1994 also kicked off a string of ratings for action strikes, including however, not limited to Swiftness (1994), Twister (1996), and Con Atmosphere (1997). He reunited with Disney for 1999’s Tarzan, composing the rating and co-writing the film’s first tracks with Phil Collins. It earned him another Grammy, for Greatest Soundtrack Record. In the 2000s, Mancina’s tasks included the 2001 criminal offense drama Training Time, the 2003 Disney cartoon feature Brother Keep (once again with Collins), as well as the strike TV series Felony Thoughts (2005-2009). In the 2010s, he was back again at Disney for 2013’s Planes and its own 2014 sequel, Planes: Open fire & Rescue, aswell as 2016’s Moana, which discovered him co-writing tunes with Polynesian vocalist/songwriter Opetaia Foa’i and Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda.