- Dan Radlauer
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Dan Radlauer is a film a T.V. composer and was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the eastern suburb of La Habra. He is the son of children's book authors Ed and Ruth Radlauer who published over 250 books. He currently lives in Brentwood, California and has two children.
Early life, musical training, early successes
He started playing music at 8 with guitar and later learned Piano, Bass, Accordion and various other stringed instruments. The advanced musical training he received was while attending school in the music department at Fullerton College in the late 1970's playing and writing for their jazz and pop groups. His big band composition Straight Tone and Strive Ahead is the opening track of the Fullerton College Jazz Band Down Beat award winning LP Time Tripping. His first 15 years of professional composing was in the area of TV and Radio commercials where he composed music for companies including Coke, Mattel, Nissan and Pizza Hut.
TV and Film Scoring
In 2001, Dan Radlauer moved more into music scoring for TV and film. He has composed the music for numerous reality TV shows including "For the Love Of Ray J" "Ruby" "Flavor of Love" and "The Surreal Life". He also contributed to the Score for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. He has scored numerous independent feature length movies and documentaries including "The Reflecting Pool" "Bad Guys" "Pip and Zastro" and "Thunder Geniuses".
References; Internet Movie Database; http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705669
External links; Official Website;http://www.radmusic.net
Categories:- American composers
- Living people
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