Andrew Lloyd Webber Biography
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Music, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "You Must Love Me" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and "Memory" from Cats. Source: Wikipedia
Biography Snapshot
- Name:
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Nationality:
- United Kingdom
- Profession:
- Composer, Businessperson, Songwriter, Theatre Director, Impresario, TV Personality, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Film Score Composer
- Date of Birth:
- March 22, 1948 (71)
- Astrological Sign:
- Aries
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