Amoeba Music

By Scott Feemster

Martin Denny was an American composer and pianist best known as the “father of exotica”, a branch of lounge or easy-listening music popularized in the 1950's that took standard pop tunes and original Tiki-inspired originals and gave them a languid, tropical feel with the introduction of non-western instruments and various sound effects including bird calls and choruses of crickets.

            Martin Denny was born on April 10, 1911, in New York City, but soon moved with his parents to Los Angeles. By all accounts Denny was something of a prodigy on the piano, and he studied classical piano and composition through his teen years with... Read More

City Of Origin:

New York, New York, United States

Genre:

Easy Listening, Pop Instrumental, Exotica

Birthdate:

04/05/1911

Death date:

03/02/2005