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J. Ralph (American born Josh Ralph; 1975) is an an Academy Award nominated composer, singer/songwriter and producer from New York City. His professional career began with the signing to Atlantic Records at age 22 as a recording artist. He is the founder of the award winning music production company The Rumor Mill,  and has written and produced the music for numerous Oscar winning films, Grammy Award winning artists, and The President of The United States, Barack Obama.

Considered the "go-to producer of documentary film scores", J. Ralph has written and produced the music for 4 out of the last 5 Oscar winning/nominated documentary feature films including Man on Wire, The Cove, Hell and Back Again and Chasing Ice for which he received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Original Song". In the 85 year history of the Academy Awards, J. Ralph's song "Before My Time", performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell from Chasing Ice, is one of only three songs from a documentary ever to be nominated for an Oscar. It remains the only song ever to be nominated from a documentary when the film was not. J. Ralph is completely self-taught and does not read or write a single note of music

J. Ralph has written and produced music with artists such as Willie Nelson, Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons), Joshua Bell, Philippe Petit, Devendra Banhart, Stephen Stills, Carly Simon, Vincent Gallo, David Garza, Ben Harper, Scarlett Johansson, Bob Weir (of the Grateful Dead), Aston "Family Man" Barrett (of Bob Marley & The Wailers), Matisyahu, KRS-One, Paul Brady, Bonnie Bramlett, Vashti Bunyan, Martin Carthy, Judy Collins, Lila Downs, Nic Jones, Norah Jones, Leah Siegel and Ben Taylor.

Filmography as composer

 * 2012 - Turned Towards The Sun (london Film Festival)
 * 2012 - Chasing Ice (Academy Award nominated -Best Original Song "Before My Time" by J. Ralph)
 * 2012 - Maladies (Berlin Film Festival)
 * 2011 - Deepest Dive: the Story of the Trieste
 * 2011 - Wretches & Jabberers
 * 2011 - Hell and Back Again
 * 2010 - Jean-Michael Basquiat: the Radiant Child
 * 2009 - The Cove
 * 2008 - Man on Wire (Title theme)
 * 2007 - Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
 * 2006 - Lucky Number Slevin