Two songs from this concert were included in the Mecano: En Concierto album released in 1985 only in Spain. Both Zimmer (on keyboards) and Cann (on drums), were invited to be part of the Spanish group Mecano for a live performance in Segovia (Spain) in 1984. He has also worked with the band Helden (with Warren Cann from Ultravox). He was a featured synthesist for Krisma's third album, Cathode Mamma. After working with the Buggles, he started to work for the Italian group Krisma, a new wave band formed in 1976 with Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser. Zimmer can be seen briefly in the Buggles' music video for the 1979 song " Video Killed the Radio Star". He worked with the Buggles, a new wave band formed in London in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley. Zimmer began his career playing keyboards and synthesizers in the 1970s, with the band Krakatoa. Main article: Hans Zimmer discography 1977–1988 So I grew up modifying the piano, shall we say, which made my mother gasp in horror, and my father would think it was fantastic when I would attach chainsaws and stuff like that to the piano because he thought it was an evolution in technology." In an interview with the German television station ZDF in 2006, he said: "My father died when I was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend." Career In an interview with Mashable in February 2013, he said of his parents: "My mother was very musical, basically a musician and my father was an engineer and an inventor.
In an interview in May 2014, Zimmer revealed that it was difficult growing up in post-War Germany being Jewish and said, "I think my parents were always wary of me telling the neighbors" that they were Jewish.
In a speech at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival, Zimmer stated that he is Jewish, and talked about his mother surviving World War II thanks to her escape from Germany to England in 1939. During his childhood, he was strongly influenced by the film scores of Ennio Morricone and has cited Once Upon a Time in the West as the score that inspired him to become a film composer. He moved to London as a teenager and attended Hurtwood House school. And I'm a child of the 20th century computers came in very handy." Zimmer attended the Ecole D'Humanité, an international boarding school in Canton Bern, Switzerland. In one of his Reddit AMAs, he said: "My formal training was two weeks of piano lessons. As a young child, he lived in Königstein-Falkenstein, where he played the piano at home but had piano lessons only briefly, as he disliked the discipline of formal lessons. Zimmer was born on 12 September 1957 in Frankfurt, West Germany. Zimmer has collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay, Guy Ritchie, Denis Villeneuve, and Zack Snyder. His studio in Santa Monica, California, has an extensive range of computer equipment and keyboards, allowing demo versions of film scores to be created quickly. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation studios and works with other composers through the company that he founded, Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures. Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. His works include Gladiator, The Last Samurai, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Man of Steel, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and No Time To Die. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Lion King (1994), and Dune (2021). Since the 1980s, Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films. His works are notable for integrating electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph in 2007. He has won two Oscars and four Grammys, and has been nominated for three Emmys and a Tony. Hans Florian Zimmer ( German pronunciation: ( listen) born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer.
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