Cliff Martinez
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Cliff Martinez

Born 5 February 1954 · The Bronx, New York, USA
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Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

Known for

Drive
Contagion
Game Night
War Dogs
Spring Breakers
The Neon Demon
The Lincoln Lawyer
Den of Thieves
The Foreigner
Only God Forgives
Traffic
Hotel Artemis
Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn
Kimi
Touch of Crude
Hotel Artemis
Game Night
Den of Thieves
The Foreigner
The Neon Demon
War Dogs
The Secret Slaves of the Middle East
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
The Normal Heart
Mea Culpa
Spring Breakers
Only God Forgives
Arbitrage
The Company You Keep
Contagion
The Lincoln Lawyer
Drive
Severe Clear
Spy(ies)
In the Beginning
Stiletto
Vice
First Snow
Havoc
Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt
Wicker Park
Wonderland
Solaris
Narc
Traffic
The Limey
Wicked
Schizopolis
Gray's Anatomy
The Underneath
King of the Hill
Black Magic
Kafka
Pump Up the Volume
sex, lies, and videotape