Composer Angelo Badalamenti, regular collaborator of David Lynch, dies

The American composer of Italian origin Angelo Badalamenti, a regular collaborator of filmmaker David Lynch and creator of the “Twin Peaks” melody, died this Sunday at the age of 85 due to natural causes, the Los Angeles Times reported today.

”The family of the composer Angelo Badalamenti confirms that he died on December 11 due to a natural death accompanied by his family.”commented his agent and friend Laura Engel to the American media.

Badalamenti’s career was closely linked to Lynch’s work, having collaborated with his music in films such as “Blue Velvet” (1986) and “Mullholand Drive” (2001), as well as in the television series “Twin Peaks” (1990).

With this latest work, the musician won a Grammy in 1991 and earned three Emmy nominations.and the sale of the album was commercially successful in at least 25 countries.

The meeting between the filmmaker and Badalamenti occurred when a producer recommended the composer as a singing teacher for Isabella Rossellini in “Blue Velvet”. Badalamenti composed the orchestral score for the homonymous theme song and appeared in the film as a pianist.

Since then they have not stopped collaborating together. being the album “Thought Gang”, released in 2018, one of his latest projects in which they recovered the music from the film “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me”, from 1992.

But Badalamenti -who trained as a classical musician- He has also worked with a wide variety of singers from Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson and Shirley Bassey to David Bowie and Paul McCartney.to name a few.

In addition, his work went beyond cinema, since He also composed the soundtrack for the video game “Fahrenheit” and several of the Olympic fanfares from the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992

So far, Lynch, who uses social media to deliver weather reports and weekly announcements about the arrival of Fridays, He has not made any public statement about his friend’s death.