Lalo Schifrin Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Boris "Lalo" Schifrin was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 21 June 1932, and had his musical talents encouraged from an early age, not least by his father Luís, who was a founder member of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra. After studying in Paris during the 1950s, he was asked by jazz great Dizzy Gillespie to become his band's pianist and musical arranger, and a career was born. Schifrin is currently married to Donna Schifrin, and has three children. Ryan Schifrin, his son, is a film director.
Composition
Schifrin made an inauspicious debut in film music, scoring a low-budget action movie called "Rhino" in 1964. However, Schifrin's star was soon in ascendance, and went on to become one of the most influential composers of the 1960s and 70s, with films like "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "Bullitt" (1968), "Coogan's Bluff" (1968), "The Fox" (1968), "Dirty Harry" (1971), "Enter the Dragon" (1973), "Magnum Force" (1973), "Voyage of the Damned" (1976), "The Eagle Has Landed" (1976) and "The Amityville Horror" (1979). Schifrin's TV work is also well recognised, and he has contributed themes for such series as "The Man From U.N.C.L.E", "Starsky and Hutch" and the near-legendary "Mission Impossible". Schifrin's trademark 'urban cool' style, combining contemporary jazz, blues and pop rhythms with a classical orchestra, won him many fans, and six Oscar nominations. After almost a decade away from film music in the late 1980s/early 1990s, during which time he was worked with such famous names as The Three Tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras), Ray Brown, Grady Tate, Diana Ross and Natalie Cole, Schifrin returned to public prominence in 1998 with his throwback score for the comedy "Rush Hour", and then again for the scores to the first two wildly successful Splinter Cell videogames, and is once again in popular demand among composers.
Awards
In 2000, Lalo recieved the Film Music Society's Career Achievement Award. Lalo has won four Grammy Awards, out of 21 nominations. He has recieved six Oscar-nominations, and recieved one Cable ACE Award.