Celebrity Biographies
Jóhann Jóhannsson
He was going through his best professional moment since he won the Golden Globe. The composer Jóhann Jóhannsson was found dead in his Berlin apartment on February 9, 2018, without the details of what happened being known. “I have lost a friend and one of the most intelligent and talented people he knew”, declared Tim Husom, his agent, confirming the sad news. “A week before he was performing at the Barcelona Auditorium.
Born on September 19, 1969, in Reykjavík, Jóhann Jóhannsson studied Literature at the university of this city. With other artists he formed the Kitchen Motors collective, where musicians of various styles, such as classical, electronic, jazz and punk, met. After developing his own style characterized by his enormous originality, he began to publish his own compositions.
He made his film debut with the 2000 Icelandic sports comedy Íslenski draumurinn, followed by numerous titles in his country. He achieved international repercussions, especially with the music of Prisoners , by Denis Villeneuve , who also recruited him for the film about encounters with extraterrestrials, The Arrival, where he did what is perhaps his best work. He earned Oscar nominations for Sicario and The Theory of Everything , for which he won the Golden Globe.
Before her death, she finished the score for the film María Magdalena , her posthumous work.