Background
Lex de Azevedo was born in Los Angeles, the son of Alyce King of The King Sisters by her first marriage.
Lex de Azevedo was born in Los Angeles, the son of Alyce King of The King Sisters by her first marriage.
He served as a musical director for The Sonny & Cher Show, Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five and The Osmonds. He composed the scores for the films Where the Red Fern Grows and The Swan Princess, for the latter he was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1995 for the song "Far Longer than Forever". During the 1960s, De Azevedo produced several albums for Capitol Records, including Laurindo Almeida"s Plays for a Manitoba and a Woman and the Four King Cousins" Introducing the Four King Cousins.
He produced the hit version, by the Youngstown, Ohio-based quartet the Human Beinz, of the Isley Brothers" "Nobody but Maine", which rose to #8 in 1968.
He is also credited as the co-writer of the Latter Day Saint production, Saturday"s Warrior. De Azevedo has ten children. videos, designed to teach children American Sign Language, and he appears in them during the grandparents sequence of Volume
2. Lex, Emilie, and Rachel are also all producers of the new children"s television show Rachel & the TreeSchoolers.
She is also a psychologist who owns and runs Wasatch Family Therapy.
He composed for popular singers (including many members of his own family) and the stage.