Alan Menken
American composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alan Irwin Menken is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's music for The Little Mermaid , Beauty and the Beast , Aladdin , and Pocahontas has each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors , Newsies , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Hercules , Home on the Range , Enchanted , Tangled , and Disenchanted , among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman , a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of eighteen people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony . He is one of two people to have won a Razzie, an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony .
