I don’t know if people thought that I could do something for them. At an agency in Amsterdam, a producer would bring me hot chocolate and cookies, just because I was Angelo’s niece. There were always fans at the ad agencies where I spent much of my twenties and thirties. I never gave any of these things to my uncle-it wasn’t my place. Once, a filmmaker sent me a VHS tape of his student film, poor guy. Musicians have sent me tapes and CDs to give to Angelo writers have sent me books. Maybe they tell me how much they loved Angelo Badalamenti’s music more often, it’s left unsaid. “My dad’s younger brother.” Maybe their hands are shaking a little when they hand my card back to me. “Are you related to the composer?” they’ll ask.
They’re wide-eyed sometimes they even look a tiny bit panicked. They look at me curiously, look back down at the name, look at me again. Sometimes, I’ll be at a restaurant, and, when I give the server my credit card, I can see them register my last name. I grabbed the box of pizza from the porch, brought it inside, and, as I was dishing out the slices, I saw a note, written in Sharpie, on the inside lid of the box: “Twin Peaks changed my life!” A Honda hatchback in need of a new muffler was pulling away as I approached the house. It was early on a rainy fall evening, and I was walking my dog when the delivery person arrived at our home, in northeast Portland, Oregon. He also wrote songs for films like “Gordon’s War” and “Law and Disorder” but his big break came in 1986 when, through a series of industry connections starting with unit manager Peter Runfolo, he was asked to help Isabella Rossellini sing “Blue Velvet” for Lynch’s iconic film.Not long ago, I ordered pizza for my teen-age son and a few of his buddies. He composed a Christmas carol for his students that ended up on PBS and essentially launched his career in entertainment, where he wrote songs for Nina Simone (“Another Spring”) and Nancy Wilson (“Face It Girl, It’s Over”). During the summers he would play piano at resorts in the Catskills for the Borscht Belt acts.Īfter college he taught middle school. He died of natural causes on Sunday, his family said in a statement.īorn in Brooklyn in March 1937 to a fish market owner father with a musical background (a percussionist in Sicily), Badalamenti grew up listening to Italian opera with his family, started piano lessons at age 8 and went on to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Angelo Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to “Mulholland Drive,” has died.
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