Oscar Practice: Early piano lessons lead to Academy Award for Manhattan Beach composer Mark Sonnenblick
by Jefferson Graham When Mark Sonnenblick was five years old, his mom bought a piano for their Manhattan Beach home, believing that music was an important element for families, just as it was for her growing up in Colorado. Mark, along with sister Sara and later, brother Matt, got piano lessons. Mark showed exceptional interest in everything from classical music and jazz to the Great American Songbook. Some 30 years later, look at what that Baldwin piano produced. At the 98th Academy Awards in March, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Sonnenblick received an Oscar for co-writing the song “Golden” from the smash hit “KPOP Demon Hunters.” The song was Number 1 for eight weeks on the Billboard Top 100 chart and the movie was Netflix’s most streamed film ever. EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick (center) with co-writers, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, and Teddy Park with their Oscar for Best Original Song, presented at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. Photo by Bonnie Cash/ UPI/Alamy Live News “If you told me that I would be nominated for an Oscar before I’d be nominated for a Tony, I never would have expected it,” Sonneblick told…
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