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John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films.
John Powell is a British composer known for his scores for How to Train Your Dragon, Happy Feet, Solo: A Star Wars Story and more. IMDb provides his biography, awards, trivia, filmography, photos and videos.
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John Powell is an English composer most famous for his work on animated movies. Like many other emerging composers of the 1990s, Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer’s “Remote Control Productions” and he frequently composed alongside members of the studio, as well as Hans Zimmer himself.
He is best known for composing score for films, including Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the Happy Feet films, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, The Call of the Wild, Bolt, eight Blue Sky Studios films, and nine DreamWorks Animation films.
Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes contributed to the soundtrack, as an executive producer with John Powell. On March 13, 2011, during his performance at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, Mendes revealed the official soundtrack list, and also announced that he would re-record the classical Brazilian song "Mas que Nada" for the film and album. [4]
John Powell is an English composer of film scores, best known for animated films such as Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards, and has collaborated with Hans Zimmer and other composers.
