J. Ralph
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| Born | 1975 (age 41–42) New York City, USA |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
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| Website | www |
Josh Ralph (born 1975), known professionally as J. Ralph, is an American composer, producer, singer/songwriter and social activist who focuses on creating awareness and change through music and film. A three time Academy Award nominated composer, his professional career began when he was signed to Atlantic Records at the age of 22 as a recording artist. He is the founder of a music production company The Rumor Mill, and has written and produced the music for Grammy Award-winning artists, symphony orchestras, the United Nations, and the President of the United States. His music has sold more than 10 million records worldwide reaching the number one position on the Billboard "Hot 100" charts in over 22 countries.
J. Ralph is completely self-taught and does not read or write a single note of music. He is the founder of production company The Rumor Mill and many of his songs have been featured in modern commercial advertisements for companies including Porsche, Nike, Volkswagen, Volvo, and Chrysler.
J. Ralph has recorded two CDs, The Illusionary Movements of Geraldine and Nazu (2005) and Music to Mauzner By (1999), the latter under the moniker "Spy". He has also written for live performance, with 2008's "Fanfare for the Uncommon Ellie and Mr. Greene" performed by the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus.
Described by The Hollywood Reporter as the "go-to producer of documentary film scores", and by Indiewire as “Perhaps the best documentary composer working today”, Over the last nine years, J. Ralph has written and produced the music for eight of the Oscar-winning/nominated documentary feature films including Man on Wire (2009),The Cove (2010),Hell and Back Again (2012),Chasing Ice (2013),Finding Vivian Maier (2015), Virunga (2015), Racing Extinction (2016) and "Jim: The James Foley Story (2017)". For his contribution to Chasing Ice, Ralph received an Oscar nomination for his song "Before My Time", performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell. For his contribution to Racing Extinction, he received his second Oscar nomination for his song "Manta Ray" co-written and performed by Anohni (F.K.A. Antony of Antony and the Johnsons). For his contribution to Jim: The James Foley Story, He received his third Oscar nomination for "The Empty Chair" Which he co-wrote with Sting who also performs the song. In the entire history of the Academy Awards, only seven songs from documentaries have ever been nominated for Best Original Song. With almost half of those nominations, J. Ralph is the only composer in the history of the Oscars to have received multiple nominations for Best Original song that originated from documentaries. Additionally J. Ralph is the first composer in Academy Award's history to write and produce the original music for multiple Oscar nominated documentary films in the same year and the first composer to to have back to back nominations for best song in a documentary.
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