Henry Mancini

Genres:	Easy Listening, Holiday & Seasonal, Instrumental, Pop / Rock, Soundtracks
Descriptive "tags":	Soundtrack, jazz, lounge, easy listening
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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Biography

Enrico Mancini, 16 April 1924, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, d. 14 June 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA. Prompted by his father, a steelworker who loved music, Mancini learned to play several musical instruments while still a small child. As a teenager he developed an interest in jazz and especially music of the big bands. He wrote some arrangements and sent them to Benny Goodman, from whom he received some encouragement. In 1942, he became a student at the Juilliard School of Music, but his career was interrupted by military service during World War II. Immediately following the war he was hired as pianist and arranger by Tex Beneke, who was then leading the Glenn Miller orchestra. Later in the 40s Mancini began writing arrangements for studios, prompted initially by a contract to score for a recording date secured by his wife, singer Ginny O'Connor (of the Mel-Tones).

Mancini was also hired to work on films (the first of which was the Abbott And...

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