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Michael Penn was born on August 1, 1958, in New York City's Greenwich Village area. He is the oldest of three brothers, but while his siblings Sean and Chris focused on acting, he turned towards music.
He's best known for his single "No Myth" from the album "March", which was his solo debut in 1989. The follow-ups "Free-for-All" (1992), "Resigned" (1997) and "MP4: Days Since a Lost Time Accident" (2000) weren't able to match the success of it, although critics praised his songcraft.
Penn married Aimee Mann in 1997. Together with their manager Michael Hausman they formed United Musicians which "is founded on the principle that every artist should be able to retain copyright ownership of the work he or she has created and that this ownership is the basis for artistic strength and true independence".
Penn moved into film scoring after director Paul Thomas Anderson asked him to write music for his first feature, "Hard Eight". He also scored Anderson's follow-up, "Boogie Nights" (in which he appeared briefly as a recording engineer), "The Anniversary Party" and "Melvin Goes to Dinner."
He's currently writing and recording a new album, due out in 2004.Biography