Bennett Salvay

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Bennett Salvay is a music composer from Los Angeles, California. Throughout his eclectic career Salvay has always gone the extra mile to locate the emotional crux. A native of the Los Angeles suburb of Encino, Salvay began studying piano at age 7. But it was less the formal rigor of study than free-form improvisation – “Figuring out the things I heard in my head,” as he puts it – that caused him to fall in love with making music. At 13 he formed a pop-rock band and began playing at high-profile L.A. venues. The experience would ultimately serve a vital function in his career. He soon found himself touring the Great White North as the pianist for British blues artist Long John Baldry. After returning to school, he was again tempted away, but this time for good. A gig opened up at Paramount Studios, working for famed TV producer Garry Marshall’s company. In the mid-’80s he wrote and conducted his first orchestral film score, for the AFI short When the Bough Breaks, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. “It was the greatest feeling I ever had, holding a baton and hearing this sound in front of me,” he remembers. “It was just thrilling. I thought, ‘I have to keep doing this.’” Next came a lengthy period of all-consuming TV work with Miller-Boyett Productions, crafting theme songs and underscore for the company’s string of hit comedy series, including Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers and numerous others. The remainder of the decade afforded him work scoring indep

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Jeepers Creepers (Original Motion Picture Score) [Digitally Remastered]

The Creeper Attacks (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Jeepers Creepers

Peaceful Warrior (Original Motion Picture Score)

Jeepers Creepers 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Jeepers Creepers 2

Jeepers Creepers (Score)

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'Jeepers Creepers' Original Motion Picture Score

Peaceful Warrior

Jeepers Creepers: Original Motion Picture Score

City of Dreams (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Peaceful Warrior OST

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