Jon Brion

Jon Brion has brought a singular musical voice to Paul Thomas Anderson's films Hard Eight, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. Brion has scored some of the past decade's other unforgettably unorthodox films, such as Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York and David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees. He has also written music for the hit comedies The Break-Up and Step Brothers, the gothic animated feature ParaNorman, Judd Apatow's This Is 40 and Pixar's The Blue Umbrella short. Brion's music was most recently featured in Paramount Pictures' crime drama The Gambler, which starred Mark Wahlberg.

Brion showed musical promise as a youth in New Jersey, forming a band out of high school. He played with such artists as Aimee Mann and The Wallflowers before becoming a producer—and sometimes songwriter—for Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright and Kanye West, among others.

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