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Allee Willis |
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ALLEE WILLIS is a member of the composer and lyricist team on the upcoming Boradway musical The Color Purple. Grammy winning songwriter Allee Willis has sold over 50,000,000 records with songs that have topped the R&B, Pop, Jazz, Country and Radio Airplay charts, including Earth, Wind And Fire's September and Boogie Wonderland, The Pointer Sisters' Neutron Dance, Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield's What Have I Done To Deserve This? and Maxine Nightengale's Lead Me On. Willis won a Grammy for Best Soundtrack for Beverly Hills Cop and was nominated for an Emmy for I'll Be There For You, the theme from Friends, one of the best selling television themes of all time. She's collaborated with Motown legend Lamont Dozier. Willis is also an award winning artist, set designer, interactive-multimedia artist, writer and director. For the past five years she's collaborated with Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner on lilytomlin.com, a non-linear exploration of their Tony winning The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life…. In the field of new media, Willis has consulted for Intel, Microsoft, America Online, Disney and Warner Brothers. Representing 3,000,000 BMI songwriters, she also addressed the U.S. House of Representatives on artist rights in cyberspace. As her alter-ego Bubbles the artist, Willis has sold over 1000 paintings and handmade ceramics. She also co-created and designed two animated series, Fat Girl on the Oxygen network and Driving While Black, on urbanentertainment.com. Willis asked Brenda Russell and Stephen Bray to help her score those series, which is how they came together to write The Color Purple.
Bio as of September, 2005.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Pop Music and the New Musical - September, 2005
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
Website:
www.alleewillis.com
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