Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber Baron LloydWebber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway He has composed 13 musicals a song cycle a set of variations two film scores and a Latin Requiem Mass Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals notably The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera I Dont Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar Dont Cry for Me Argentina and You Must Love Me from Evita Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Memory from Cats In 2001 the New York Times referred to him as the most commercially successful composer in history Ranked the fifth most powerful person in British culture by The Telegraph in 2008 the lyricist Don Black stated Andrew more or less singlehandedly reinvented the musical He has received a number of awards including a knighthood in 1992 followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Music seven Tonys three Grammys as well as the Grammy Legend Award an Academy Award fourteen Ivor Novello Awards seven Olivier Awards a Golden Globe a Brit Award the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors and the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is an inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters Composers and Authors