26 Facts About Lalo Schifrin

Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin was born on June 21,1932 and is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.

Lalo Schifrin is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin American musical elements alongside traditional orchestrations.

Lalo Schifrin is a five-time Grammy Award winner; he has been nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy Awards.

Lalo Schifrin is noted for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s, particularly the Dirty Harry series of films.

Lalo Schifrin composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004.

Lalo Schifrin was born in Buenos Aires to a Jewish family.

At the age of six, Lalo Schifrin began a six-year course of study on piano with Enrique Barenboim, the father of pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim.

Lalo Schifrin began studying piano with the Greek-Russian expatriate Andreas Karalis, former head of the Kyiv Conservatory, and harmony with Argentine composer Juan Carlos Paz.

In 1955, Lalo Schifrin played piano with Argentine bandoneon giant Astor Piazzolla and represented his country at the International Jazz Festival in Paris.

Lalo Schifrin began accepting other film, television and radio assignments.

Lalo Schifrin completed the work, Gillespiana, in 1958, which was recorded in 1960.

Later in 1958, Lalo Schifrin began working as an arranger for Xavier Cugat's popular Latin dance orchestra.

Gillespie invited Lalo Schifrin to fill the vacant piano chair in his quintet.

Lalo Schifrin wrote a second extended composition for Gillespie, The New Continent, which was recorded in 1962.

Lalo Schifrin moved to Los Angeles and became a US resident in 1963.

Lalo Schifrin's working score for 1973's The Exorcist was rejected by the film's director, William Friedkin.

Lalo Schifrin had written six minutes of difficult and heavy music for the initial film trailer, but audiences were reportedly frightened by the combination of sights and sounds.

Lalo Schifrin said that working on the film was one of the most unpleasant experiences in his life.

Lalo Schifrin composed the 1976 fanfare for Paramount Pictures, which was used mainly for their home video label and was adapted for the television division 11 years later until it was renamed to CBS Paramount Television in 2006.

Lalo Schifrin brought traditional tango songs to the film, as well as introducing compositions of his own, in which tango is fused with jazz elements.

Lalo Schifrin wrote the main theme for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow.

Lalo Schifrin made a cameo appearance in Red Dragon as an orchestra conductor.

Lalo Schifrin is widely sampled in hip-hop and trip-hop songs, such as Heltah Skeltah's "Prowl" or Portishead's "Sour Times".

In 2003, Lalo Schifrin was commissioned to compose a classical work entitled Symphonic Impressions of Oman by Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

Lalo Schifrin has won five Grammy Awards, with twenty-two nominations, one CableACE Award, and received six Academy Award and four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Lalo Schifrin has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.