Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman
Top Songs
| 1 | Be Our Guest (Demo) [From "Beauty and the Beast"/Remastered 2018] | ||
| 2 | Under the Sea [Synth Demo] | ||
| 3 | Skid Row (Downtown) | ||
| 4 | Poor Unfortunate Souls [Basic Synth Demo] | ||
| 5 | Fathoms Below [Work Tape Version] |
Albums
Dec 2019 • 22 songs
Dec 2019 • 21 songs
Jul 2017 • 17 songs
About
Biography
Lyricist, playwright, and theater director Howard Ashman was most celebrated as part of the powerhouse songwriting team of Ashman and Menken with famed composer Alan Menken. The authors of such musicals as Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors (1982) and Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989) and Beauty and the Beast (1991), Ashman's Oscar- and Grammy-winning legacy was cut short by his death in 1991 at the age of 40.
Born in Baltimore on May 17, 1950, Howard Elliott Ashman studied at Boston University before earning his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974. He then reloca...