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Lalo Schifrin

Creating some of film and television's most iconic soundtracks, Argentinian jazz composer Lalo Schifrin has won four Grammy Awards and has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Born in Buenos Aires, he started playing piano at five and received a scholarship to the esteemed French music college the Paris Conservatoire, where he took classical training during the day and played in jazz clubs at night. He returned to Argentina to lead his own big band before moving to New York in 1960 to play with Dizzy Gillespie and crafted a signature form of Latin-influenced bossa nova jaz...