Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman is a Academy Award nominated composer and lyricist of film. Born October 22, 1959 in Newark,New Jersey. He started his career as a vocal arranger for Bette Midler. Later on he started to work for Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner which allowed him to write music for their box-office success movies as well as the Oscar shows and Emmy Awards. Some of his (arguably) best known scores include those for Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family, Trey Parker's South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Emile Ardolino's Sister Act.
Shaiman has earned five Academy Award nominations, a Tony Award, a Grammy Award for his work on the musical Hairspray (Original Broadway Cast), and an Emmy Award for co-writing Billy Crystal's Academy Award performances. He has also been Grammy nominated twice for his arrangements for Harry Connick, Jr.'s recordings When Harry Met Sally and We Are In Love and Emmy nominated for his work on Saturday Night Live. In 2002, he was honored with the "Outstanding Achievement in Music-In-Film" award at The Hollywood Film Festival.
Marc is gay activist and also married Navy Lieutenant Commander Louis Mirabal on March 26,2016. The two were wed in New Jersey following Mirabal’s retirement ceremony, honoring his 20 years of service. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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