25.08.1943 (80 years) (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Harry Manfredini (born August 25, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film composer and jazz soloist, who has scored more than one hundred films, including the Friday the 13th film series, save for Jason Takes Manhattan, Freddy vs. Jason, and the reboot. He has had years of classical training, as well as twenty years in the popular music scene. In conversation with Russian journalist and composer Tony Vilgotsky, Harry Manfredini said that his musical tastes and style were influenced by such composers like Giacomo Puccini, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel and others.