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Danny Elfman
Biography
Danny Elfman
Born
May 29, 1953 in Amarillo, TX

Years Active:
80s | 90s | Current

Member of:
Oingo Boingo

 
Danny Elfman is easily the most successful of those rock musicians who have made the jump to serious film composition. Born Daniel Robert Elfman on May 29, 1953 in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Los Angeles, his mother, Blossom Elfman, was a novelist and later a screenwriter. Elfman was always musically inclined, and while living in France with his brother Richard in the early 1970s, he joined a theatrical company, where he first began learning how to orchestrate. He also spent some time living in Africa, until a bout with malaria forced him to return to the United States in the late 1970s. ...
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Selected Discography:
  Album Title Released Label Price
Music For A Darkened Theatre



1990 MCA $6.99
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Related Artists
Oingo Boingo

Influences
Duke Ellington Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins Lalo Schifrin

Formal Connections
Oingo Boingo

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