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Acclaimed composer Angelo Badalamenti has died. He was 85.
His agent Laura Engel alsoverified the news, perThe Washington Post. (PEOPLE has reached out to Badalamenti’s rep for comment.)
Born in 1937 in Brooklyn, New York, Badalamenti was a classically trained musician who would go on to work on several iconic projects. His most notable works are tied to his many collaborations with filmmakerDavid Lynch, includingTwin Peaks,Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,Blue VelvetandMulholland Drive.
Badalamenti’s compositions for theTwin Peakstheme music won him a 1990 Grammy, and the soundtrack album’s popularity earned it a spot in the top 25 of theBillboard200 chart.
“He’s got this musical soul, and melodies are always floating around inside,” Lynch previously told PEOPLE of Badalamenti in 1990. “I feel the mood of a scene in the music, and one thing helps the other, and they both just start climbing.”
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“Music and composing — I almost feel a little guilty about it —come so easily for me,” he toldThe Recordin 2004, perThe New York Times. “It’s like the well doesn’t seem to run dry.”
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