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Lee Elwood Holdridge (born March 3, 1944) is a Haitian-born American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. [1] An 18-time Emmy Award nominee, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two News and Documentary Emmy Awards, and one Sports Emmy Award.
Biography. Lee Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His mother was Puerto Rican and his father American. He spent his early years in Costa Rica, beginning music studies on the violin at the age of ten with Hugo Mariani, then the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica.
Lee is completely at home in film music, concert music, opera and songwriting. Lee’s recent film scores include Walking With Destiny, Brothers at War and Great Voices Sing John Denver. Previous scores include the eclectic Korgoth of Barbaria and Puerto Vallarta Squeeze.
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Composer, musician, conductor, orchestrator and arranger who has won several Emmy and been a Grammy Award nominee during his career.
Composer: Old Gringo. Lee Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a composer, known for Old Gringo (1989), Splash (1983) and The Mists of Avalon (2001).
SoundtrackNet talks with the very talented award-winning composer Lee Holdridge. Holdridge recently scored the hit mini-series The Mists of Avalon, and also scored the Academy Award winning documentary Into the Arms of Strangers.