Stephen J. Lawrence was an American composer, who lived and worked in New York City.
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He was also known as Stephen Lawrence, but used his middle initial to differentiate him from the singer Steve Lawrence.
Stephen J. Lawrence gained his B.A. in music from Hofstra University and during his lifetime composed more than 300 songs and scores for Sesame Street, resulting in three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition.
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Stephen J. Lawrence also composed the title song and four others for Marlo Thomas’s Free to Be… You and Me, the landmark million-selling record, book and Emmy Award- and Peabody Award-winning ABC television special; composed the million-selling Gold Record You Take My Breath Away; scored the 1973 Robert De Niro movie Bang the Drum Slowly and the cult horror classic Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), which won the music award at the Paris International Festival of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Who Is Stephen J. Lawrence’s Ex-wife Christine Jones?
Stephen J. Lawrence married Christine Jones in 1984 and they have a daughter Hannah was born two years later.


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