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Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder
American guitarist, singer and composer
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Joey Newman
Joey Newman
American film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor
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Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett
American musician
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Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
American musician
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Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham
American musician
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Matthew Wilder
Matthew Wilder
American vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
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Randy Edelman
Randy Edelman
American musician, producer, and composer for film and television (born 1947)
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Russ Titelman
Russ Titelman
American record producer
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Los Lobos
Los Lobos
American Chicano rock band
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Desmond Child
Desmond Child
American songwriter and producer
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Michael Penn
Michael Penn
singer from the United States
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Rick Nowels
Rick Nowels
American songwriter and record producer
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Greg Wells
Greg Wells
Canadian songwriter
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Harry Nilsson
Harry Nilsson
American singer-songwriter (1941-1994)
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Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman
American composer best known for his many film scores
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Robert Kraft
Robert Kraft
American composer
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Dr. John
Dr. John
American singer-songwriter (1941-2019)
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BT
BT
American musician
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Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman
American composer (1901-1970)
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Harpers Bizarre
Harpers Bizarre
rock band
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James Ingram
James Ingram
American singer–songwriter and record producer
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Nile Rodgers
Nile Rodgers
American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and composer
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Diane Warren
Diane Warren
American songwriter, musician and record producer
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Finneas O'Connell
Finneas O'Connell
American musician and actor
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Glen Ballard
Glen Ballard
American songwriter, lyricist, and record producer
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Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright
American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
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J. A. C. Redford
J. A. C. Redford
American composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and writer
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Don Henley
Don Henley
American singer, lyricist, producer and drummer
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Ken Darby
Ken Darby
American composer
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AM
AM
American musician
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Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer
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Greg Kurstin
Greg Kurstin
American record producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
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Alexi Murdoch
Alexi Murdoch
British musician and songwriter
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Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton
American country music singer-songwriter
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Carl Sigman
Carl Sigman
American songwriter, lyricist
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Eleni Mandell
Eleni Mandell
American singer-songwriter
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Corbin Bleu
Corbin Bleu
American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter.
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Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie
American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
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John Densmore
John Densmore
American drummer and songwriter
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Andrew Gold
Andrew Gold
American singer, musician and songwriter (1951-2011)
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Emily Osment
Emily Osment
American actress
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Ludwig Göransson
Ludwig Göransson
Swedish composer
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Peter Cetera
Peter Cetera
American musician
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Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Warnes
American recording artist; singer
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American singer-songwriter, arranger and composer
Awards Received
Annie Award
Disney Legends
Primetime Emmy Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Nominated For
Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score Academy Award for Best Original Score
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Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. His best-known songs as a recording artist are "Short People" (1977), "I Love L.A." (1983), and "You've Got a Friend in Me" (1995), while other artists have enjoyed more success with cover versions of his "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (1966), "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (1968) and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1972).

Born in Los Angeles to an extended family of Hollywood film composers, Newman began his songwriting career at the age of 17, penning hits for acts such as the Fleetwoods, Cilla Black, Gene Pitney, and the Alan Price Set. In 1968, he made his formal debut as a solo artist with the album Randy Newman, produced by Lenny Waronker and Van Dyke Parks. Four of Newman's non-soundtrack albums have charted in the US top 40: Sail Away (1972), Good Old Boys (1974), Little Criminals (1977), and Harps and Angels (2008).

Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. He has scored nine Disney-Pixar animated films, including all four Toy Story films (1995–2019), A Bug's Life (1998), both Monsters, Inc. films (2001–2013), and the first and third Cars films (2006, 2017), as well as Disney's James and the Giant Peach (1996) and The Princess and the Frog (2009). His other film scores include Ragtime (1981), The Natural (1984), Awakenings (1990), Pleasantville (1998), Meet the Parents (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), and Marriage Story (2019).

Newman has received twenty-two Academy Award nominations in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories and has won twice in the latter category, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories. He has also won three Emmys, seven Grammy Awards and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy. In 2007, he was recognized by the Walt Disney Company as a Disney Legend. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.