David Kitay

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David Joseph Kitay (born October 23, 1961 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American composer .

Life

David Joseph Kitay was born the son of an accountant and an opera singer. At the age of eight he began taking private music lessons and for several years he attended the Dick Grove School of Music parallel to school . In his early 20s, Kitay was known as a good guitarist , so the well-known music producer Barry Mann hired him as a studio musician for Motown . There he played as a studio musician for The Temptations , Four Tops , Aretha Franklin and James Ingram .

It was then Steve Terrell, with whom he founded a joint record company, who brought him to composing film music. After composing for the animated series Teen Wolf , other commissions followed and the two successful films Look Who's Talking! and look who's talking 2 . However, Kitay's mother died in 1991, which is why he withdrew from the music business. When he wanted to return, he found that his reputation had evaporated and that he had to earn new orders. But after a few years in which he composed mainly for television films, he was able to return to successful productions such as Clueless - What Else! , Scary Movie and Harold & Kumar work.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

TV Shows

Awards

BMI Film & TV Awards

  • 1990 : Look who's talking!
  • 1995 : crazy about you
  • 1997 : crazy about you
  • 1998 : crazy about you
  • 2001: Scary Movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Kitay on radaris.com (English), accessed December 14, 2011
  2. ↑ David Kitay on rateyourmusic.com (English) retrieved 14 December 2011
  3. ↑ John Mansell: David Kitay Interview  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on runmovies.eu on May 27, 2008, accessed on December 14, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.runmovies.eu  
  4. ↑ Gary Eskow: Composer David Kitay ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at mixonline.com from June 1, 2006, accessed December 14, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mixonline.com
personal data
SURNAME Kitay, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kitay, David Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, United States