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Richard Gibbs
Sign in to saveAlso known as Richard Kendall Gibbs, Richard "Ribbs" Gibbs
American film composer and music producer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- In the Rear View Mirror
- Ford - Gibbs Family History
- Rock stars, Spies and Scandals
- Collaborative Change
- Abstracts of papers presented at the 1999 meeting on genome sequencing & biology
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Film & TV
Bay Village, Ohio, USA
Richard "Ribbs" Gibbs (born December 5, 1955) is an American film composer and music producer whose credits include Dr. Dolittle, Big Momma's House, Queen of the Damned, the television series Battlestar Galactica and the first season of The Simpsons.
Known for
- Oingo Boingo: 1983 US Festival2011
- Oingo Boingo: Skeletons in the Closet — Himself1989
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1955
Discography
Member of
- Oingo Boingo1980–1984
- Zuma II
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 45,446
- Total plays
- 1,228,307
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Richard "Ribbs" Gibbs was the keyboard player for the New Wave band Oingo Boingo from 1980 to 1984. He was also a session player, performing on over 150 albums for artists as diverse as War, Tom Waits, Robert Palmer, and Aretha Franklin. He also started the band Zuma II, which had an eponymously titled record released by Pasha/CBS Records. He has appeared live with Korn, The Staples, Chaka Khan, and Oingo Boingo. Like his former bandmate Danny Elfman, Gibbs has embarked on a life of scoring mov
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Gibbs
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bay Village
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Educated at
- Berklee College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film score
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- date of birth
- 1955-12-05
- member of
- Oingo Boingo
- influenced by
- Elmer Bernstein
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