Henry Mancini

See all 18 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Henry Mancini Radio, featuring artists like Nelson Riddle, John Barry, Burt Bacharach, Percy Faith and more…

• Search on Spotify

2,893,713 plays (315,545 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Henry Mancini Ringtones to Cell

Buy

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

Cleveland, United States (1924 – 1994)

Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an Academy Award-winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores - his best-known works are the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series and Moon River. Mancini won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.

Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the steel town of West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. His parents emigrated from the Abruzzo region of Italy. Mancini’s father, Quinto, was a steelworker, who made his only child begin flute lessons at the age of eight. When Mancini was 12 years old, he began piano lessons. Quinto and Henry played flute together in the Aliquippa Italian immigrant band, “Sons of Italy”. After high school, Mancini attended the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York. In 1943, after roughly one year at Juilliard, his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the army. In 1945, he participated in the liberation of a South German concentration camp.

Mancini recorded over 90 albums, in styles ranging from big band to classical to pop. Eight of these albums were certified gold by The Recording Industry Association of America. He had a 20 year contract with RCA Records, resulting in 60 commercial record albums that made him a household name composer of easy listening music.

Read more… Edit bio

Popular tags: soundtrack, jazz, instrumental, easy listening, lounge  See more

Share this artist:

• Tweet
• Send

Top Albums

• Breakfast At Tiffany's
  Henry Mancini

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.99
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search

  New

• The Best Of Me
  Henry Mancini

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search

  New

• The Pink Panther
  Henry Mancini

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• The Best of Henry Mancini
  Henry Mancini

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $9.88
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		Moon River			534
2		The Pink Panther Theme			297
3		Lujon			267
4		Baby Elephant Walk			231
5		Peter Gunn			164
6		Breakfast At Tiffany's			144
7		Sing, Sing, Sing - Original Mix			141
8		Something for Cat			134
9		Pink Panther Theme			131
10		What's It Gonna Be - Original Mix			111
11		Sally's Tomato			104
12		The House of the Rising Sun - Original Mix			96
13		Mr. Lucky			95
14		Ebb Tide - Original Mix			94
15		The Beat - Original Mix			86

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more