RANDY NEWMAN
Name: Randy Newman
Birth name: Randall Stuart Newman
Born: 28 November 1943 Los Angeles, California
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an Academy Award-
winning American songwriter, arranger, composer, singer and pianist who is
notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film
scores.
Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a "character"
far removed from Newman's own biography, often utilizing the literary device of
an unreliable narrator. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as
slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political
Science" is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward
America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution ("Let's drop the big one").
Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores
include Ragtime, The Natural, Toy Story, Meet the Parents and Seabiscuit. He
also scored four other Pixar films: A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc.,
and Cars.
He has also been singled out for a number of awards by his colleagues, including
an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award
of the recording academy. Randy Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall
of Fame in 2002.
Name: Randy Newman
Birth name: Randall Stuart Newman
Born: 28 November 1943 Los Angeles, California
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an Academy Award-
winning American songwriter, arranger, composer, singer and pianist who is
notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film
scores.
Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a "character"
far removed from Newman's own biography, often utilizing the literary device of
an unreliable narrator. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as
slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political
Science" is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward
America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution ("Let's drop the big one").
Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores
include Ragtime, The Natural, Toy Story, Meet the Parents and Seabiscuit. He
also scored four other Pixar films: A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc.,
and Cars.
He has also been singled out for a number of awards by his colleagues, including
an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award
of the recording academy. Randy Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall
of Fame in 2002.