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Michael Andrews (musician)

Michael Andrews
Mike Andrews 2012.jpg
Andrews in 2012
Background information
Also known as Mike Andrews
Born (1967-11-17) November 17, 1967 (age 49)
Origin San Diego, United States
Genres Film score, experimental, folk
Occupation(s) Musician, composer
Instruments Guitar, piano, keyboards, bass guitar, marimba, drums
Years active 1985 - present
Associated acts The Origin, Greyboy Allstars, Elgin Park
Website www.elginpark.com

Michael Andrews (born November 17, 1967) is an American multi-instrumental musician and film score composer. He is best known for a cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with Gary Jules for the Donnie Darko soundtrack, and which became a number one single in the UK in Christmas 2003.

After joining The Greyboy Allstars following the dissolution of his band The Origin, Andrews fell into film score composition by chance when The Greyboy Allstars were asked to score Jake Kasdan's first feature Zero Effect and worked on the music for the highly regarded (though short-lived) TV series, Freaks and Geeks. In 2000, Richard Kelly commissioned him to do the soundtrack for the film Donnie Darko. Its original score album went on to sell over 100,000 copies (in part because of Andrews's remake of Tears for Fears' "Mad World", featuring Gary Jules), and Andrews became a composer to watch. He has since gone on to compose scores for the movies Out Cold, Nothing, Cypher, Orange County, My Suicidal Sweetheart, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The TV Set, a segment of Paris, je t'aime, Unaccompanied Minors, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.


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