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Michael Penn (born August 1, 1958) is an American 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 Chris Penn. ==Career== Michael Penn is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and film composer. Prior to the release of his 1989 debut album ''March'', Penn was a member of the Los Angeles band Doll Congress, and had appeared as an 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'' 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"〔(''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.〔(''Michael Penn: Free-For-All'' ), ''CMJ Review''〕 In ''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..." 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 festivals 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 scored two movies released by Paul Thomas Anderson in 1997, ''Hard Eight'' and ''Boogie Nights''; he also appears in the latter in a cameo role playing Nick, a recording engineer. During the editing of the film, Anderson directed a music video with Penn for "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 Anniversary Party'' and ''Suffering Man's Charity'';〔Glucksman, Mary. (Five new films in postproduction ), ''Filmmaker Magazine''. Spring 2006.〕 ''American Teen'', ''Sunshine Cleaning'';〔(Michael Penn Filmography ), ''Yahoo! 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''.〔(DVD Exclusive Awards: 2003 ), IMDB.〕 Penn has produced recordings for Aimee Mann, The Wallflowers and Liz Phair. 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 and the invention of the transistor. The album was reissued by Legacy Recordings in April 2007 with bonus tracks from a KCRW session.〔(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. In late 2009, Penn composed the music for the film ''That Evening Sun''. In 2012 Penn began work as the composer for the HBO TV show ''Girls''.〔()〕 In January 2013, the "Girls VOL.1" soundtrack was released on iTunes. The album contained a new song by Michael Penn titled "On Your Way", which was featured in the finale of Season 1. He also joined the crew of Showtime's ''Masters of Sex'' in 2013 as series composer. The show's pilot episode was initially set to be scored by Thomas Newman, but this did not come to fruition and Penn scored both the pilot and the rest of the series. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Penn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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