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Tim Rice
Lyricist

Lyricist Tim Rice was born in Buckinghamshire, England, on November 10, 1944. He entered the world of popular music as the lead singer of the pop-rock group the Aardvarks and went on to sing occasionally with other popular rock groups of the 1960s. He published his first song, “That’s My Story,” in 1965 — the same year he met his eventual musical partner, Andrew Lloyd Webber. In addition to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the two Englishmen collaborated on the blockbuster musicals Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. He collaborated with composers Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson for the musical Chess. He has also worked with other notable composers, including Marvin Hamlisch and Paul McCartney, and received three Grammys for his work on Walt Disney’s Aladdin. With Elton John, he wrote the lyrics for Disney’s The Lion King. In 2010, he reunited with his Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat collaborator Andrew Lloyd Webber to create new songs for a stage version of The Wizard of Oz. Originally starring Michael Crawford (the original star of Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera), the production opened in London in March 2011 and ran until September 2012 (followed thereafter by a production in Toronto and a U.S. tour). His most recent project as a musical theater lyricist was a musical version of the World War II novel From Here to Eternity, which played in London’s West End from October 2013 through March 2014. As an EGOT, he is one of 21 people in the world to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. He was knighted as “Sir Tim Rice” by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1994, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and he was named a Disney Legend in 2002.

Tim Rice
Lyricist

Lyricist Tim Rice was born in Buckinghamshire, England, on November 10, 1944. He entered the world of popular music as the lead singer of the pop-rock group the Aardvarks and went on to sing occasionally with other popular rock groups of the 1960s. He published his first song, “That’s My Story,” in 1965 — the same year he met his eventual musical partner, Andrew Lloyd Webber. In addition to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the two Englishmen collaborated on the blockbuster musicals Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. He collaborated with composers Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson for the musical Chess. He has also worked with other notable composers, including Marvin Hamlisch and Paul McCartney, and received three Grammys for his work on Walt Disney’s Aladdin. With Elton John, he wrote the lyrics for Disney’s The Lion King. In 2010, he reunited with his Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat collaborator Andrew Lloyd Webber to create new songs for a stage version of The Wizard of Oz. Originally starring Michael Crawford (the original star of Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera), the production opened in London in March 2011 and ran until September 2012 (followed thereafter by a production in Toronto and a U.S. tour). His most recent project as a musical theater lyricist was a musical version of the World War II novel From Here to Eternity, which played in London’s West End from October 2013 through March 2014. As an EGOT, he is one of 21 people in the world to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. He was knighted as “Sir Tim Rice” by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1994, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and he was named a Disney Legend in 2002.