The Music Man
As of this past weekend at the movies, it's probably no longer possible to say songwriter-performer-producer Ali Dee is deploying his unique skill set in obscurity. This simple discipline saves us from leaning too hard into a cornball line about how he's Hollywood's secret soundtrack weapon, while his dad made secret weapons (more of that further down). However you look at it, the 37-year-old, New York-based musician is a phenomenon—an artist with a hand in wide releases Iron Man , What Happens in Vegas and Speed Racer . A bit earlier this spring, Ali did a soup-to-nuts job on the Alvin and the Chipmunks soundtrack, helping propel the movie to $357 million in worldwide box office and setting the soundtrack on a course for platinum sales. It's...
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