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Bebe Barron

Specialty
Sound
Birth
June 16, 1926 · 81 years
Death
April 20, 2008
Origin
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Technical Alias

Charlotte May Wind

Professional Trajectory

Bebe Barron (June 16, 1926 – April 20, 2008) was an American pioneer in the field of electronic music. She is credited, along with her husband and creative partner Louis Barron, with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape, and the first entirely electronic film score for the MGM movie Forbidden Planet.

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