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Angelo Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti is a music composer, best known for his movie soundtrack work for surrealist movie director David Lynch. He also appeared in Lynch's Blue Velvet as a piano player and Mulholland Drive as a gangster with a finicky taste for espresso.

Badalamenti was born in Brooklyn on March 22, 1937.

Quotes

" My (musical) world is a little bit dark. . . a little bit off-center. I think of it as tragically beautiful. That is how I would describe what I love best: tragically beautiful."