Charles Fox

Composer Charles Fox is a Grammy and Emmy winning, Oscar nominated, Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year.

He has composed the musical scores for over 100 films including, “Nine To Five”, “Foul Play”, “Goodbye Columbus” and “Barbarella”.

His popular songs include, “I Got A Name” with Jim Croce, “Ready To Take A Chance Again” for Barry Manilow and his Grammy Award winning classic, “Killing Me Softly With His Song” with Roberta Flack and later with The Fugees.

He’s composed the theme songs and background scores for many long running and classic TV series including, “Happy Days”, “Laverne and Shirley”, “Love American Style”, “The Love Boat”, “Wonder Woman” and “The Paper Chase”.

Charles’ concert works include ballets for the San Francisco Ballet and the Dance Theater of Harlem, “A Song For Dead Warriors” and “Zorro” a full length ballet for the Smuin Ballet in San Francisco. The Smuin Ballet also premiered his newest ballet this year, “Salsa ‘Til Dawn”. He composed the Oratorio “Lament and Prayer” based on the words of Pope John Paul II, and conducted the premier performance with the Polish National Opera Company at the Warsaw Opera house. He was then commissioned by the Polish government to compose a work honoring the 200th birthday of Chopin, “Fantaisie”, which he conducted in Gdansk, Poland.

His works for theater include, the musicals, “Midsummer’s Night’s Dream”, performed at the John Anson Ford Theater in Los Angeles and “The Eleventh” at the Off Broadway Theater in Ft. Lauderdale, both with lyricist, Norman Gimbel, and “The Turning Point”, in collaboration with lyricist, Hal David. His newest shows are “School For Scandal” with lyricist Arthur Hamilton and “Ain’t That Jazz” that he co-wrote with bookwriter/lyricist Alain Boublil who wrote “Les Misérables”