(1944-11-10) 10 November 1944 (age 79) Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire, England
Origin
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Genres
Musical theatre
film
television
lyricist
author
Occupation(s)
Lyricist • author
Years active
1965–present
Website
timrice.co.uk
Musical artist
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English lyricist and author. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, among other shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote Chess; with Elton John, with whom he wrote Aida; and with Disney on Aladdin, the Lion King, both the stage adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and the live-action film adaption. He also wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical King David, and for DreamWorks Animation's The Road to El Dorado.
Rice was knighted by Elizabeth II for services to music in 1994. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is a 1999 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and is the 2023 recipient of its Johnny Mercer Award,[1] is a Disney Legend recipient, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In addition to his awards in the UK, he is one of nineteen artists to have won an Emmy, Oscar, Grammy and Tony in the US.[2]
Rice twice hosted the Brit Awards (in 1983 and 1984). The 2020 Sunday Times Rich List values Rice's wealth at £155m; the 21st-richest music millionaire in the UK.[3]
^Gans, Andrew (15 February 2023). "Tim Rice to Be Honored at 52nd Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Ceremony". Playbill. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
^"John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice become EGOT winners". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
^Homewood, Ben (13 May 2020). "Rihanna debuts in Top 3 of The Sunday Times' list of richest musicians". musicweek.com. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
Guillaume. Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist TimRice, with a score by Hans Zimmer. Inspired by African wildlife, the story is...
his interest in musical theatre. "The names of Andrew Lloyd Webber and TimRice are, of course, forever bound together in musical theatre history, like...
English lyricist and librettist TimRice (born 1944) received his fourth distinct award in 2018. Between 1980 and 2018, Rice received a total of 12 awards...
composed by Hans Zimmer and John Powell, and songs written by Elton John and TimRice. Elton John also periodically narrates the story in song throughout the...
and live in the present. The song was written by Elton John (music) and TimRice (lyrics), who found the term in a Swahili phrasebook. It was nominated...
speech inducting Elton John into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Along with TimRice, John wrote the songs for the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King....
to grow rice. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or, much less commonly, O. glaberrima (African rice). Asian rice was domesticated...
Brown, Tom Eyen, David Rogers, Dennis Green, David Spencer, Jack Feldman, TimRice, Lynn Ahrens, Glenn Slater, Chad Beguelin, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ariel...
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a sung-through musical with lyrics by TimRice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the character of Joseph from...
worked with him on the 1985 song "Wrap Her Up". He composed music with TimRice for The Lion King in 1993 and Aida in 2000. Other individuals with whom...
number-one in the UK Singles Chart. The first demo was composed by TimRice-Oxley in about 2001. Rice-Oxley said that the song came from "hammering away on the...
1994's The Lion King and 2000's Aida, both of which featured lyrics by TimRice, and 2005's Billy Elliot, which has script and lyrics by the original film's...
(composer and lyricist) 3: Jay Livingston (7) (composer and lyricist) 3: TimRice (5) (lyricist) 2: Alan and Marilyn Bergman (15) (lyricist) 2: Randy Newman...
Salvation by Peter Link and C.C. Courtney 1970 Jesus Christ Superstar by TimRice and Andrew Lloyd Webber 1970 The Survival of St. Joan by James Lineberger...
Sussex, to Sally and David Chaplin OBE, a month apart from future bandmate TimRice-Oxley's brother, also called Tom. Their mothers became friends and he started...
Italian). la Repubblica. Retrieved December 4, 2010. Peiffer, Kim; Nudd, Tim (November 21, 2006). "Deadwood's' Keith Carradine Gets Married". People....
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