1. Anthony Marinelli was born on March 19,1959 and is an American musician, composer, synth programmer, record producer and conductor.
40 Facts About Anthony Marinelli
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Anthony Marinelli was a contributor in the production of Quincy Jones' soundtrack for Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple and composed for Young Guns, Graveyard Shift, Leaving Las Vegas, and Internal Affairs.
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Anthony Marinelli has won four Clio Awards, two AICP Awards, two ADDY Awards, three Indian Telly Awards and a Cannes Silver Lion Award for his musical contributions on television commercials.
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Anthony Marinelli composed the music for the infamous "Fried Egg" version of This Is Your Brain on Drugs television commercial.
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Anthony Marinelli co-founded, incubated and hosted Levels Audio Post, a post production service; the venture serviced the television shows: American Idol, The Bachelor, the Teen Choice Awards and the MTV Award Shows.
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In musical theatre, Anthony Marinelli completed BollyDoll, a Bollywood genre extravaganza with visual artist and vocalist, Amrita Sen, directed by Shekhar Kapur in 2013.
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In December 2022, Anthony Marinelli became the co-host and producer of the podcast series Stories in the Room: Michael Jackson's Thriller Album Podcast, which has gone viral on social media.
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Anthony Marinelli took an interest in his father's work and was exposed to operas, ballet, musicals and symphonies during his childhood.
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Anthony Marinelli was personally introduced to Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Zubin Mehta and Katharine Hepburn.
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Anthony Marinelli attended the annual Academy Award ceremonies with his family, beginning at age nine.
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Anthony Marinelli decided on a career in music after hearing Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos.
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Anthony Marinelli studied piano and music theory under Lowndes Maury from 1967 to 1975.
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Anthony Marinelli studied synthesizer under Clark Spangler, and continued piano under Terry Trotter, Spud Murphy and Hans Beer.
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Anthony Marinelli studied jazz improvisation under Charlie Shoemake from 1978 to 1982.
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In 1977, Anthony Marinelli graduated with the first coed class at Providence High School in Burbank, California.
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Anthony Marinelli studied piano and music composition at the University of Southern California School of Music and played the Los Angeles jazz circuit with the band Night Flight, featuring Billy Childs and vocalist Dianne Reeves.
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Anthony Marinelli attended USC from 1977 to 1982, but withdrew with film and recording project offers pending.
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Anthony Marinelli was one of ten conductors selected to attend the fourth annual BMI Film Conducting Workshop in 2001.
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Anthony Marinelli holds dual-citizenship ; his Italian citizenship is inherited through his father's lineage.
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Anthony Marinelli is a licensed soccer coach and has been an LA Galaxy season ticket holder since the team's move to Carson, California in 2003.
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Anthony Marinelli has been a patron of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1980 and is a founding member of the Electronic Music Alliance.
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Anthony Marinelli became interested in analog synthesizers in his teenage years.
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The film industry expressed interest in synthesizer technology while Banks and Anthony Marinelli simultaneously emerged as experts in the practical application of the new technology.
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Banks and Anthony Marinelli made a "polaroid" of the Quincy Jones soundtrack for The Color Purple available to director Steven Spielberg during filming and editing.
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In 2015, Anthony Marinelli sat for an interview with the BBC, reflecting on his memories and contributions to Michael Jackson's Thriller.
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Anthony Marinelli appears in the film Thriller 40 from his studios.
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Anthony Marinelli moved into digital with a Synclavier Direct to Disk synthesizer and digital tape prior to renovating and moving the studio to a circa 1913, Art Deco style, building at 1606 N Highland in Hollywood.
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Anthony Marinelli continued to operate his Hollywood studios as a sole proprietor, establishing the trade name Music Forever in 1993.
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Anthony Marinelli co-founded and incubated a post-production service company called Levels Audio Post.
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Orchestral works, which have gained wider recognition for Anthony Marinelli, include the score for the biopic Chapter 27, using a 60 piece orchestra with the score being similar instrumentally to Tchaikovsky's, Nutcracker Suite.
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Anthony Marinelli has stated that he had put his analog synthesizers in storage and had worked without them for about a decade.
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Anthony Marinelli was exposed to and studied the styles of many modern composers.
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Anthony Marinelli is credited on the Rubinstein score for Best of Times, and Anthony Marinelli and Banks are credited on Stakeout.
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Still completing numerous feature films per year, Anthony Marinelli's responsibilities increased, more often working with directors rather than in support roles under other composers.
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Anthony Marinelli continued composing with filmmaker and composer Mike Figgis, writing the theme for Leaving Las Vegas in 1995 and co-composing the scores on Internal Affairs, Timecode and Hotel.
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Anthony Marinelli's discography includes: Michael Jackson's Thriller ; Don Felder's Airborne ; Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down ; Supertramp's Brother Where You Bound ; Kenny Loggins's Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and Back to Avalon.
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Anthony Marinelli has worked with recording artists James Brown, Herb Alpert, The Crystal Method, Billy Childs and Quincy Jones.
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Anthony Marinelli arranges and performs classical ballads and boleros with Cindy Gomez and Asdru Sierra in a multilingual group they call Trio Retro.
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Anthony Marinelli has been honored with Daytime Emmy Honors Award, Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series, for his work on Santa Babara.
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Anthony Marinelli's work includes critically acclaimed commercials and public service announcements such as the fried egg version of This Is Your Brain on Drugs, which Entertainment Weekly named the 8th best commercial of all time.