{"id":3844,"date":"2013-12-05T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/12\/05\/warner-bros-records-taps-robert-kraft-to-lead-soundtrack-revival\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:50:45","slug":"warner-bros-records-taps-robert-kraft-to-lead-soundtrack-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/12\/05\/warner-bros-records-taps-robert-kraft-to-lead-soundtrack-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Records Taps Robert Kraft to Lead Soundtrack Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/c\/c1\/The_Matrix_Poster.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"216\" height=\"296\" \/><br \/>Former Fox Music president Robert Kraft will be a consultant on  soundtracks for Warner Bros. Records, charged with identifying,  developing and executing soundtrack opportunities for the label&#8217;s  artists. He will be looking for film, TV, video games and Internet  opportunities. Kraft will be responsible fr expanding WBR\u2019s existing relationships  with film studios, TV production houses and broadcasters. Furthermore,  Warner Bros is looking to Kraft to bring together WBR artists, score  composers and film directors to foster new types of creative  collaboration.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Kraft was president of Fox Music from 1994 to 2012, where he  supervised the music for more than 300 feature films. As a recording  artist, he has released four albums, while Bette Midler and Roberta  Flack, among others, have covered his songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under Kraft\u2019s leadership, Fox Music garnered 11 Academy Award  nominations for Best Score and\/or Best Song, winning four Academy  Awards. Among the films he is credited with music supervising are:  &#8220;Titanic,&#8221; &#8220;Moulin Rouge,&#8221; &#8220;Romeo + Juliet,&#8221; &#8220;Garden State,&#8221; &#8220;Walk the  Line&#8221; and &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221;. He&#8217;s also worked on soundtracks for Fox  shows including &#8220;24&#8221; and &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221;. He was nominated for an  Academy Award for &#8220;Beautiful Maria of My Soul&#8221; for the 1992 film, &#8220;The  Mambo Kings,&#8221; and shared a Grammy Award for the soundtrack to the 1992  Disney film, &#8220;The Little Mermaid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. Records chairman  and CEO Cameron Strang said in a statement, \u201cHis instinctive  understanding of what makes a powerful soundtrack, combined with his  deep knowledge of the creative progress and his wide-ranging network of  media contacts, will make him an invaluable champion for our artists and  their music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoundtracks are an area that I know and love, and this great  opportunity comes at a time of renewed excitement about music for visual  media,&#8221; says Kraft. &#8220;WBR&#8217;s legacy includes many landmark soundtracks,  from &#8220;Purple Rain&#8221; to &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; and &#8220;The Dark Knight,&#8221; so I\u2019m  delighted to help grow the label\u2019s reputation as the pre-eminent player  in the soundtrack arena.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Fox Music president Robert Kraft will be a consultant on soundtracks for Warner Bros&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}