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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. Composer: How to Train Your Dragon 2. John Powell was born on 18 September 1963 in London, England, UK. He is a composer, known for How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), Happy Feet (2006) and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). He was previously married to Melinda Lerner.
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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.
Aug 25, 2017 · Ten things to know about John Powell, Han Solo movie composer. Garrett Tiedemann. August 25, 2017. Oscar-nominated composer John Powell composed the music for 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, stepping into a lineage evolving from the John Williams foundation.
Biography. John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores in films. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over seventy feature films. Powell is best known for composing and/or co-composing scores for animated films, such as Antz (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000 ...
