In 1983, DiCola was a co-nominee for the Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Grammy for co-writing the soundtrack of the movie Staying Alive, in spite of the poor critical reception of the film. He also admires film-music composers Thomas Newman, John Powell and Jerry Goldsmith. Since then, he has been active in the capacity of producer, recorded and performed as both a solo artist and member of several bands, and continues to work as a session musician and contributor to film soundtracks as composer and performer.ĭiCola counts Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer among his biggest influences in progressive rock music. Following his work on the Staying Alive project, he was recruited by Sylvester Stallone to write the original score for Rocky IV (1985), followed by scoring The Transformers: The Movie (1986). His first major break came when he was chosen to co-write several songs on the Staying Alive soundtrack (1983) with Frank Stallone. One of his early credits as a session musician was his synthesizer performance on Juice Newton's albums Dirty Looks and Old Flame released in 19, respectively. After majoring in percussion in college, DiCola began his professional music career upon moving to California in 1981. DiCola also pioneered the use of sequencers on his soundtrack recording for Rocky IV, one of the first to exploit the Fairlight CMI and Synclavier II's computer's sequencing capabilities.ĭiCola was born in 1957 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Italian-American parents. He has composed scores for films such as Staying Alive, Rocky IV, and The Transformers: The Movie. Vincent Louis DiCola (born November 11, 1957) is an American composer, keyboardist and arranger.
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