Hans Zimmer Biography

Hans Zimmer is a German film score composer and record producer. Zimmer was born (Hans Florian Zimmer) on 12, September 1957 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. Hans has composed music over 150 films since 1980.

Hans Zimmer Age

Zimmer was born (Hans Florian Zimmer) on 12, September 1957 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. As per of 2018, Zimmer is 61 years old.

Hans Zimmer Family

Hans is a son of Brigitte Zimmer  who was very musical, basically a musician and Hans J. Zimmer who was an engineer and an inventor.

Hans Zimmer Wife

Zimmer married his first wife Vicki Carolin who was a model . He married the second wife Suzanne Zimmer whom they live with in Los Angeles.

Hans Zimmer Children- Kids

Zimmer has a daughter with Carolin: Zoe Zimmer. Zimmer also has three children with Suzanne.

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Hans Zimmer Career

Zimmer began his career playing keyboards and synthesizers in the 1970s, with the band Krakatoa. He worked with the Buggles, a new wave band formed in London in 1977 with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, and Bruce Woolley. Zimmer can be seen briefly in the Buggles’ music video for the 1979 song “Video Killed the Radio Star”. 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. He was a featured synthesist for Krisma’s third album, Cathode Mamma.

The soundtrack to Ridley Scott’s 1991 film Thelma & Louise by Zimmer featured the trademark slide guitar performance by Pete Haycock on the “Thunderbird” theme in the film. As a teenager, Zimmer was a fan of Haycock, and their collaboration on film scores includes K2 and Drop Zone. Zimmer wrote the theme for Tony Scott’s 1993 film True Romance, which he based on Carl Orff’s Gassenhauer.

In the 2000s, Zimmer composed scores for Hollywood blockbuster films including three Ridley Scott films, Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down and Hannibal (2001), followed by The Last Samurai (2003), Madagascar (2005), The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Simpsons Movie (2007), Angels & Demons (2009), and Sherlock Holmes (2009). Other work in the 2000s included the Spanish language film Casi Divas, and The Burning Plain (2009).

For the 2010 film Inception, Zimmer used electronic manipulation of the song “Non, je ne regrette rien”. The horn sound in the score, described by Zimmer as “like huge foghorns over a city” became a popular feature in film trailers, with Zimmer commenting “It’s funny how that sort of thing becomes part of the zeitgeist.

Zimmer composed the main theme for the 2016 BBC nature documentary Planet Earth II, presented by David Attenborough. Zimmer composed the main theme for the 2016 Netflix production The Crown. Also in 2016 Zimmer released an online course teaching the basics of film scoring.

In 2018, Zimmer composed the score for the television intro of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, called “Living Football”.Also in 2018, Zimmer remixed the UEFA Champions League Anthem with rapper Vince Staples for EA Sports’ FIFA video game FIFA 19, with it also featuring in the game’s reveal trailer.

Hans Zimmer Filmography

Films

Television