Pocahontas: Soundtrack

Pocahontas: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1995 Disney animated movie Pocahontas. It consists of songs written for the movie by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. The Pocahontas soundtrack won the Academy Award for Best Musical or Comedy Score, and reached Number-1 on the Billboard 200.

Included on the soundtrack are the songs Colors of the Wind and Listen with your Heart. The former song is performed by Judy Kuhn, and the latter by Linda Hunt and Bobbi Page. Colors of the Wind was the 1995 Oscar-winner for Best Original Song, and it won the Golden Globe in the same category as well as the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Movie. Vanessa Williams' recording of the song for the end-credits of the movie was released as a single and became one of her biggest hits; and there have been many cover versions.

Alan Menken (born in 1949) is an American composer for movies and musical theater. He is best known for his scores for movies produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas have each won two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Home on the Range, The Shaggy Dog, Enchanted, Tangled, and Mirror Mirror.

Stephen Schwartz (born in 1948) is an American lyricist and composer for movies and musical theater. Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell, Pippin, and Wicked. He has contributed lyrics for movies such as Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt (music and lyrics), and Enchanted. Schwartz has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and has been nominated for six Tony Awards.

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