Piero Umiliani

Biography

Piero Umiliani (1926 to 2001) was an Italian film and library music composer from Florence whose jazz-inflected scores defined Italian genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote the music for 'I soliti ignoti' and more than a hundred other films, founded the #Omicron# and #Liuto# labels, and recorded dozens of sought-after library albums. His 1968 composition 'Mah Nà Mah Nà' became a global hit through the Muppets. He died in Rome in 2001.