Biography: Francis Lai, Francisco Slinger, François de Roubaix, François Reichenbach, Frank C. d'Amico, Frank Churchill, Frank Loesser, Frank Skinner, Franz Grothe, Franz Waxman,

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Best remembered for his Oscar-winning scores to A Man and a Woman and Love Story, composer Francis Lai was born April 26, 1932, in Nice, France After studying piano as a child, he later discovered jazz and during the 1950s followed friend and singer Claude Goaty to Paris, eventually settling in Montmartre

Francisco Slinger Biography, Photos, Pictures

Best known as the Mighty Sparrow, Francisco Slinger is an 11-time winner of the Calypso Monarchy and an eight-time winner of Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnaval Road March Competition

François de Roubaix Biography, Photos, Pictures

Composer François de Roubaix was born on April 3, 1939, in Neuilly-sur-Seine He didn’t receive any formal musical education, but he became interested in jazz from the age of 15

François Reichenbach Biography, Photos, Pictures

The documentaries of French director Francois Reichenbach are noted for their detail and sharp insights American life, particularly its eccentric aspects are a favorite topic for Reichenbach

Frank C. d'Amico Biography, Photos, Pictures

Frank C D’Amico is a newspaper reporter based in Princeton, NJ where he mainly covers local government, education and occassionally, sports He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State where he covered sports and campus events

Frank Churchill Biography, Photos, Pictures

Composer Frank Churchill is best known for his work on many of Walt Disney’s early animated classics, contributing some of the best-loved songs in the company’s catalog

Frank Loesser Biography, Photos, Pictures

A respected Broadway name due to his Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a composer who wrote half a dozen wartime songs including “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition,” a Hollywood lyric-writer for several 1940s films — it appears that Frank Loesser had several careers packed into his one life

Frank Skinner Biography, Photos, Pictures

Back in the 1970s, when film music first began to boom as an area of recording activity, one would have been hard put to find a mention of the name Frank Skinner much less any examples of his movie scores on record

Franz Grothe Biography, Photos, Pictures

It sometimes seems, if you take the accounts of Hollywood’s musical colony and its members’ lives at face value, as though all of the talented members of the German-speaking film music community left when one or the other of the two World Wars began to threaten