When was the soundtrack composer for Empire of the Sun born?
February 8, 1932
Empire of the Sun (soundtrack)
Empire of the Sun is the soundtrack, on Warner Bros.
 Records, of the 1987 film "Empire of the Sun", directed by Steven Spielberg.
 The original score was composed by John Williams and recorded in September-October 1987.
John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.
 With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including "Jaws", the "Star Wars" series, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Superman", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", the "Indiana Jones" series, the first two "Home Alone" films, the first two "Jurassic Park" films, "Schindler's List", and the first three "Harry Potter" films.
 Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three of his feature films.
 Other notable works by Williams include theme music for the Olympic Games, "NBC Sunday Night Football", "The Mission" theme used by NBC News, the television series "Lost in Space" and "Land of the Giants", and the incidental music for the first season of "Gilligan's Island".
 Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments.
 From 1980 to 1993, he served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor, and is now the orchestra's laureate conductor.
World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year
World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year Frida (soundtrack)
The album won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
 At the World Soundtrack Awards it won two awards: "Best Original Soundtrack of the Year" and "Soundtrack Composer of the Year". Joseph Byrd
Joseph Hunter Byrd (born December 19, 1937) is an American composer, musician and academic.
 After first becoming known as an experimental composer in New York City and Los Angeles in the early and mid-1960s, he became the leader of The United States of America, an innovative but short-lived band that integrated electronic sound and radical political ideas into rock music.
 In 1968 he recorded the album "The American Metaphysical Circus", credited to Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies.
 After working as a record producer, arranger, and soundtrack composer, he became a university teacher in music history and theory. Amanda Brown (musician)
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 She is known for her role as the violinist of the band The Go-Betweens and more recently a session musician and soundtrack composer. From Russia with Love (soundtrack)
From Russia with Love is the soundtrack for the second James Bond film of the same name.
 This is the first series film with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer. V. Harikrishna
V. Harikrishna (born 5 November 1974) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, playback singer and film producer.
 He has mainly scored music for Kannada films.
 After his stint as a programmer and assistant musician, Harikrishna made his debut as an independent composer in actor Darshan's first production venture "Jothe Jotheyali" in 2006.
 Since then, he has been scoring for majority of Darshan's films besides working for many other leading production houses.
 He owns an audio company called "D-Beats" (established: 2013) and produces music under his own company starting from the film "Bulbul" (2013). Yuvan Shankar Raja
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 He has predominantly scored music for Tamil films.
 The youngest son of the greatest tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja, he began his musical career in 1996, at age 16, when he composed the film score for "Aravindhan".
 After initial struggle, he made his big break with the "Thulluvadho Ilamai" soundtrack (2001), and evolved as one of Tamil cinema's most sought-after composers by the mid-2000s. Klaus Harmony
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 While the site itself contains no explicit content, the composer's life and works are presented by alluding to a fictional movie world complete with filmography, discography, and numerous peripheral characters, including a biographer and musicologist.