Composer
Mike Post
American composer and record producer
b. 1944
2 works in the index
- Born
- 1944
- Birthplace
- Berkeley
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil; September 29, 1944) is an American composer. He is best known for his television theme music for various shows, including Law & Order and its spin-offs Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent, The White Shadow, The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, P.I., NYPD Blue, Quantum Leap, L.A. Law and Mammoth. He is a Primetime Emmy Award and a five-time Grammy Award winner.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- composer; songwriter; record producer; film score composer; guitarist; music arranger; musician
- Education
- Grant High School
- Instruments played
- keyboard instrument; guitar; bass guitar; voice
- Genres
- rock music; pop music; soul; stage and screen; pop rock; classical music
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition; Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance; Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
- Official website
- https://mike-post.com/
- Birth name
- Leland Michael Postil
- Pseudonym
- Mike Post
- VIAF ID
- 24794828
- ISNI
- 0000000073647420
- GND ID
- 13448763X
- Library of Congress ID
- n91086868
- MusicBrainz ID
- 8a667f87-540c-4635-87bb-a9151693935f
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Vocal
- Works with composition dates
- 0 of 2
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Works
Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hill Street Blues Theme | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Believe It or Not | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 24794828. Portrait: POPDUST, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.