Michael Lehmann Boddicker was born on January 19,1953 and is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music.
15 Facts About Michael Boddicker
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Michael Boddicker is the president of The Lehmann Boddicker Group.
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That same year in 1973, Michael Boddicker purchased a powerful portable semi-modular synthesizer, the ARP 2600.
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Michael Boddicker was able to purchase a Minimoog and a Moog System 15 modular synthesizer by 1975.
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Michael Boddicker quickly found work as a session musician, and by 1977 appeared playing synthesizer, vocoder, accordion and keyboards on albums by many notables such as Quincy Jones, Randy Newman, The Manhattan Transfer and The Bee Gees.
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One of Michael Boddicker's earliest soundtrack collaborations of note was a score for a short experimental claymation film made by Gumby creator Art Clokey entitled "Mandala".
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Michael Boddicker is a Board Member of The Society of Composers and Lyricists, of Beverly Hills, California.
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Michael Boddicker owns an audio post production facility, Sol7, in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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Michael Boddicker was married to Cassandra Lee Jensen, from 1972 to 1980, ending in divorce.
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Michael Boddicker has four children, two of the children he had were with Edie Lehmann.
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Michael Boddicker sued Michael Jackson's estate in 2016, alleging that he was unpaid for work and services provided early in his professional relationship with Michael Jackson.
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Michael Boddicker was awarded a Grammy Award as a songwriter for "Imagination," from the movie Flashdance in 1984.
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Michael Boddicker was voted most valuable synthesizer player in 1981,1982,1984 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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In 2003, Michael Boddicker was inducted to the Iowa Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.
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Michael Boddicker performed on soundtrack of the Horizons attraction Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park.