Cliff Martinez (b. 1954)

Alias:
克利夫·马丁内斯

Birthplace:
The Bronx, New York, USA

Born:
February 5, 1954

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

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Additional Music:
1997  The Fifth Element
2012  NWR

Music:
1992  Black Magic
1997  The Fifth Element
2005  Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt
2010  Severe Clear
2012  Golem
2012  NWR
2015  My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
2016  The Secret Slaves of the Middle East
2018  The Legend of Red Hand
2022  Touch of Crude

Original Music Composer:
1989  sex, lies, and videotape
1990  Pump Up the Volume
1991  Kafka
1992  Black Magic
1993  King of the Hill
1995  The Underneath
1996  Gray's Anatomy
1997  Schizopolis
1997  The Fifth Element
1998  Wicked
1999  The Limey
2000  Traffic
2002  Narc
2002  Solaris
2003  Wonderland
2004  Wicker Park
2005  Havoc
2005  Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt
2006  First Snow
2008  Stiletto
2008  Vice
2009  In the Beginning
2009  Spy(ies)
2010  Severe Clear
2011  Contagion
2011  Drive
2011  The Lincoln Lawyer
2012  Arbitrage
2012  Golem
2012  NWR
2012  The Company You Keep
2013  Only God Forgives
2013  Spring Breakers
2014  Mea Culpa
2014  The Normal Heart
2015  My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
2016  The Neon Demon
2016  The Secret Slaves of the Middle East
2016  War Dogs
2017  The Foreigner
2018  Den of Thieves
2018  Game Night
2018  Hotel Artemis
2018  The Legend of Red Hand
2022  Kimi
2022  Touch of Crude
2023  Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn

Songs:
1989  sex, lies, and videotape
1990  Pump Up the Volume
1991  Kafka
1992  Black Magic
1993  King of the Hill
1995  The Underneath
1996  Gray's Anatomy
1997  Schizopolis
1997  The Fifth Element
1998  Wicked
1999  The Limey
2000  Traffic
2002  Narc
2002  Solaris
2003  Wonderland
2004  Wicker Park
2005  Havoc
2005  Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt
2006  First Snow
2008  Stiletto
2008  Vice
2009  In the Beginning
2009  Spy(ies)
2010  Severe Clear
2011  Contagion
2011  Drive
2011  The Lincoln Lawyer
2012  Arbitrage
2012  Golem
2012  NWR
2012  The Company You Keep
2013  Only God Forgives
2013  Spring Breakers
2013  The Square
2014  Mea Culpa
2014  The Normal Heart
2015  My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
2016  The Neon Demon
2016  The Secret Slaves of the Middle East
2016  War Dogs
2017  The Foreigner
2018  Den of Thieves
2018  Game Night
2018  Hotel Artemis
2018  The Legend of Red Hand
2022  Kimi
2022  Touch of Crude
2023  Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn

Music:
1986  Pee-wee's Playhouse

Original Music Composer:
1986  Pee-wee's Playhouse
2014  The Knick
2019  Too Old to Die Young
2020  The Wilds
2023  Copenhagen Cowboy

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