Vincent Louis DiCola was born on November 11,1957 and is an American composer, keyboardist and arranger.
16 Facts About Vince DiCola
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Vince DiCola has composed scores for films such as Staying Alive, Rocky IV, and The Transformers: The Movie.
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Vince DiCola was born in 1957 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Italian-American parents.
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In 1983, Vince DiCola was a co-nominee for the Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Grammy for co-writing the soundtrack of the movie Staying Alive, in spite of the poor critical reception of the film.
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Vince DiCola has had enough of a cult following amongst Transformers fans to have warranted the release of several albums of music related to the Transformers movie, as follow-ups to the release of the original 1986 The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack.
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Vince DiCola has been a guest at multiple Transformers conventions, including appearances at BotCon'97, BotCon'98, BotCon 2000 and The Official Transformers Collectors' Convention 2004 in Rosemont, Illinois.
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An interview with Vince DiCola was included on the Region 1 DVD release of The Transformers: The Movie released by Rhino Entertainment in the year 2000.
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Vince DiCola released his first solo work in 1986, an album simply titled Piano Solos.
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Vince DiCola later worked both as an arranger and performer on a 1991 multi-artist project called Artfully Beatles, which led him to release Artistically Beatles, an album of ten Beatles songs he arranged and performed, in 1993.
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Vince DiCola appeared as keyboardist on the first Hughes Turner Project album HTP in 2003.
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In 2008, he was featured on the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Original Soundtrack and was responsible for arranging the series theme, "Moon Over the Castle", which was written by Masahiro Andoh of T-Square, with which Vince DiCola worked on their 2001 album Truth 21c.
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Vince DiCola described his work on the Gran Turismo's soundtrack's project in an interview with Music4Games, noting that he collaborated with T-Square and Doug Bossi on the project, and looks forward to becoming involved with game music in the future.
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In 2012, Vince DiCola recorded the official theme for Chikara's King of Trios professional wrestling event, alongside Kenny Meriedeth.
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In 2013, Vince DiCola released a Christmas medley that was featured as a part of the Saturday Morning RPG soundtrack ahead of a planned full soundtrack release for the game.
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Vince DiCola wrote original music for the video game Transformers: Devastation.
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Vince DiCola toured in 2019 with Glenn Hughes playing keyboards on his 'Glenn Hughes Performs Classic Deep Purple' tour.