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John Powell
12+ albums
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John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He is particularly known for his scores for animated films, including Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek (all three co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), Robots, Happy Feet (and its sequel), three Ice Age sequels, Rio, and the How to Train Your Dragon film series, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for the first film. He has also scored many live-action films, of which his collaborations with directors Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass are perhaps the best known. These include the first three and the fifth Bourne films, United 93, and Green Zone. Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams and Zimmer himself. Powell was originally trained as a violinist as a child, before studying at London's Trinity College of Music.[citation needed] He later ventured into jazz and rock music, playing in a soul band called the Faboulistics.[citation needed] On leaving college, he composed music for commercials, which led to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, including Much Ado About Nothing. In 1995, Powell co-founded the London-based commercial music house Independently Thinking Music, which produc
top songs
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With Love Comes Loss (Arr. for Piano Solo)
163,7692Test Drive - From How To Train Your Dragon Music From The Motion Picture
156,8553This Is Berk
106,8414Romantic Flight - From How To Train Your Dragon Music From The Motion Picture
104,5455Forbidden Friendship
88,6266Romantic Flight
53,2307Dragon Training
52,4058Where No One Goes
51,3129Coming Back Around
49,90810Test Drive
47,635albums
How to Train Your Dragon (Music from the Motion Picture)
Piano Solos from How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The Bourne Ultimatum
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Music from the Motion Picture)
How to Train Your Dragon
P.S. I Love You
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Ice Age: The Meltdown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bolt
Hancock
How to Train Your Dragon - Music from the Motion Picture
A Wicked Good Finale