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other people|Michael PennInfobox musical artist | name = Michael Penn| image = | caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1958|8|1|mf=y|birth_place = Greenwich Village|Greenwich Village, New York City , United States|US | death_date =| instrument = Guitar , piano , Bass guitar|bass , Singing|vocals | genre = Alternative rock | occupation = Singer-songwriter , composer , musician ,| years_active = 1990–present| label = RCA, Sony, Mimeograph| associated_acts = Doll Congress | website = http://www.michaelpenn.com www.michaelpenn.com| notable_instruments = Michael Penn (born August 1, 1958) is an People of the United States|American singing|singer , songwriter and composer. He is the eldest son of actor/director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan , and the brother of actors Sean Penn and the late Chris Penn .
Career
Michael Penn is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and film composer.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p5126|pure_url=yes, AMG. Prior to the release of his 1989 debut album March (Michael Penn album)|March , Penn was a member of the Los Angeles band Doll Congress , and had appeared as an Extra (actor)|extra on a few television series , including St. Elsewhere .
March , particularly the first single, " No Myth ," brought Penn attention, as well as the 1990 MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist . Penn's follow-up albums Free-for-All (1992), Resigned (1997) MP4: Days Since a Lost Time Accident (2000 ) Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 (2005) and Palms and Runes, Tarot and Tea (2007) weren't able to match the commercial success of March , although critics continued to praise his songcraft.
It was with Free-for-All (Michael Penn album)|Free-for-All that Penn faced the specter of the one-hit wonder . The album, while praised by critics, was not as successful as Penn's debut, though it had more than its share of supporters. Rolling Stone called it "stunning" http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/25/michaelpenn/index.html No. 4 and counting Critically acclaimed, commercially snubbed, Michael Penn tries again , CNN Interactive and CMJ wrote that the album "exhausts any doubts" about whether March was a fluke. http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php? id=17981 Michael Penn: Free-For-All , CMJ Review
In Vox (magazine)|Vox magazine, critic Gary Leboff acknowledged that Penn could be "pig-headedly uncommercial," but, he conceded, "the payoff is sublime". Leboff continues, "His freeform songwriting creates tracks of startling shape and originality, offering literate reflections on the human condition..."Citation needed|date=July 2007 Penn collaborated with the renowned surrealist animators The Brothers Quay on "Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In)," which found a home not on MTV but in film festival s around the country, winning awards along the way.
He has worked extensively creating original music for film; among his first work in this field (if not the first) was for 1993's Tales From the Vienna Woods . He film scores|scored two movies released by Paul Thomas Anderson in 1997, Hard Eight (film)|Hard Eight and Boogie Nights ; he also appears in the latter in a Cameo appearance|cameo role playing Nick, a recording engineer. During the editing of the film, Anderson directed a music video with Penn for " Try (Michael Penn song)|Try " from Resigned (the video can be found on the Boogie Nights DVD). Other films scored by Penn include Alan Cumming 's first two directorial efforts, The AnniversaryParty and '' Suffering Man's Charity ;Glucksman, Mary. http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/spring2006/columns/in_focus.php Five new films in postproduction, Filmmaker Magazine . Spring 2006. American Teen , Sunshine Cleaning ; http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800345208 Michael Penn Filmography, Yahoo& #33; Movies . the documentary The Comedians of Comedy ; and The Last Kiss . In 2003, he was nominated for a DVDX Award for Best Original Score in a DVD Premiere Movie for Melvin Goes to Dinner . http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/DVD_Exclusive_Awards/2003-2 DVD Exclusive Awards: 2003, IMDB.
In August 2005, Penn released Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 on his own Mimeograph Records label. Its songs are set against the background of post- World War II Los Angeles ; Penn said he chose the year because of several notable events that took place then, including the passage of the National Security Act of 1947|National Security Act and the invention of the transistor . http://www.toolshed-media.com/appfiles/files/206/MPPR50405.pdf Michael Penn's Much Anticipated Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 in Stores August 2, press release. 2005-05-04. The album was reissue d by Legacy Recordings in April 2007 with bonus tracks from a KCRW session. http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb050907michael_penn Michael Penn, Morning Becomes Eclectic , KCRW . 2005-10-07.
The reissue came in conjunction with Legacy's release of Palms and Runes, Tarot and Tea: A Michael Penn Collection , a compilation that includes several alternate versions and previously unreleased songs. Penn said his goal in compiling, ordering tracks for and producing Palms and Runes was to "make it feel like an album" in its own right.Citation needed|date=July 2007 In late 2009, Penn composed the music for the film That Evening Sun .cite web|url= http://thateveningsun.com/ |title=ThatEveningSun |publisher=ThatEveningSun |date= |accessdate=2012-01-30
In 2012 Penn composed music for the HBO TV show " Girls_(TV_series)|Girls ". http://www.michaelpenn.com/? page_id=141
Personal life
BLP unsourced section|date=February 2011Penn met fellow singer-songwriter Aimee Mann , and during the recording of her album ''I'm With Stupid (to which Penn contributed), the two struck up a friendship, which blossomed into romance and their December 29, 1997 marriage. Together with manager Michael Hausman they formed United Musicians , an anti- file-sharing , pro-strict-copyright-law organization also interested in helping artists with the promotion and distribution of their work. Penn and Mann live in Los Angeles .
Discography
Solo albums
March (Michael Penn album)|March (1989) Billboard Top 200|US #31
Free-for-All (Michael Penn album)|Free-For-All (1992) US #160
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