In whatever direction he turns Justin Hurwitz will probably always be known for
composing the award-winning music in the runaway success movie 'La La Land', on
which he collaborated with his director friend Damien Chazelle and nominated for
14 Academy Awards.
The son of a writer and a ballet dancer, Hurwitz was raised in a musical family
in Los Angeles, though they moved to Wisconsin when he was in his early teens.
He was playing piano by the age of six and writing his own music by ten and fell
in love with jazz after an uncle gave him an Oscar Peterson record. He studied
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