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Michael Boddicker (Michael J. Boddicker) was born on 19 January, 1953 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S., is an American composer. Discover Michael Boddicker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

Popular As Michael J. Boddicker
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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 19 January, 1953
Birthday 19 January
Birthplace Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Cassandra Lee Jensen (m. 1972-1980) Edie Lehmann (m. 1995)

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1953

Michael Lehmann Boddicker (born January 19, 1953) is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music.

1971

While still attending Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids in 1971, Boddicker enrolled full-time at the local Coe College, studying electronic music.

1972

By 1972, he continued studies at Coe College, focused on music composition and he started taking jazz studies at the University of Wisconsin.

Boddicker was married to Cassandra Lee Jensen, from 1972 to 1980, ending in divorce.

1973

By 1973, he enrolled in 20th-century composition at the University of Iowa.

That same year in 1973, Michael purchased a powerful portable semi-modular synthesizer, the ARP 2600.

1974

By 1974, Michael moved to Los Angeles and found Paul Beaver as a mentor.

1975

He was able to purchase a Minimoog and a Moog System 15 modular synthesizer by 1975.

As a result of his purchase, he was asked by Bob Moog (the founder of Moog Music) to demonstrate their newest synthesizer, the Polymoog, at the 1975 summer NAMM Show.

1977

He quickly found work as a session musician, and by 1977 appeared playing synthesizer, vocoder, accordion and keyboards on albums by many notables such as Quincy Jones, Randy Newman, The Manhattan Transfer and The Bee Gees.

One of Boddicker's earliest soundtrack collaborations of note was a score for a short experimental claymation film made by Gumby creator Art Clokey entitled "Mandala" (released in 1977).

Soon after that he entered the mainstream with work on such films as Saturday Night Fever, Battlestar Galactica and The Wiz.

Boddicker is a Board Member of The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL), of Beverly Hills, California.

He owns an audio post production facility, Sol7 (aka Sol Seven), in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

1978

His contributions as a composer can also be heard in the film Battlestar Galactica (1978) which include the Battlestar Galactica theme song produced and arranged by Michael Boddicker.

1981

Boddicker was voted most valuable synthesizer player in 1981, 1982, 1984 by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

1984

He is a three times National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (N.A.R.A.S.) Most Valuable Player "Synthesizer" and MVP Emeritus, he was awarded a Grammy as a songwriter for "Imagination" from Flashdance in 1984.

He is the president of The Lehmann Boddicker Group.

Boddicker grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

His parents, Arlene Estelle (née Reyman) and Gerald "Jerry" Valentine Boddicker operated a music school and store in Cedar Rapids, which served students in all of Eastern Iowa.

His mother was a nationally recognized accordionist.

He was awarded a Grammy Award as a songwriter for "Imagination," from the movie Flashdance in 1984.

Among his film score credits as a composer are The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), the score for The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986), and additional music for Bulletproof (1996), The Magic Egg: A Computer Odyssey (1984) an Omni Max computer-animated film, Get Crazy (1983), White Water Summer (1987), F/X2 (1991) with Lalo Schifrin, and Starfire (1992).

1991

In 1991, in recognition of his achievements, contributions and furtherance of electronic music in the recording industry, he was presented with an honorary doctorate of music from Coe College.

1992

Freejack (1992), Michael Jackson's "Black or White" (music video), and "HIStory" (music video) video produced by and additional music underscore and "THE FLY" eleven cues to augment or replace the original score.

Artists that have recorded his songs and compositions include Lani Hall ("Go For The Heart"), Earth, Wind and Fire ("Opening Raise Tour"), Patti Austin ("Oh, No Margarita"), Michael Jackson ("Captain EO & HIStory Unveiling"), Isao Tomita's & YMO's Hideki Matsutake ("Automatic Collect", "Automatic Correct & Plan"), Kitaro ("The Silk Road"), Laura Branigan (Imagination) and David Hasselhoff.

He also performed on soundtrack of the Horizons attraction Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park.

As a session musician he played synthesizer on, among others, Michael Jackson's This Is It, HIStory, Thriller, Bad, Off the Wall', Dangerous, Black or White, and We Are the World; Earth, Wind & Fire's Let's Groove; Lionel Richie's Hello, You Are, Running with the Night; Dazz Band's Let It Whip; Randy Newman's The Natural and Short People; Kenny Loggins' Footloose; Cyndi Lauper's The Goonies 'R' Good Enough; Barbra Streisand's Somewhere; Cheap Trick's Surrender; The Jacksons' Shake Your Body; Pointer Sisters' He's So Shy; and Diana Ross's Missing You.

1995

Boddicker officially changed his name to Michael Lehmann Boddicker when he married singer/conductor/actress Edie Lehmann on October 15, 1995 in Hollywood, California.

He has four children, two of the children he had were with Edie Lehmann.

They live in Southern California.

2003

In 2003, Boddicker was inducted to the Iowa Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.

2016

He sued Michael Jackson's estate in 2016, alleging that he was unpaid for work and services provided early in his professional relationship with Michael Jackson.

2019

In 2019, he co-founded the Los Angeles synthesizer music festival, Synthplex.