Biography
Joe Delia is an American composer, musician and arranger. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 11 October 1948, he began his career as a teenager playing piano and singing with the group The Bruthers before working as a session musician and arranger with artists including Chuck Berry, Pat Benatar and Stevie Wonder.
Delia is best known for his long collaboration with director Abel Ferrara, composing the scores for films including The Driller Killer (1979), Ms. 45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Body Snatchers (1993), The Addiction (1995), The Funeral (1996) and Zeros and Ones (2021). He has also scored other features such as The Tao of Steve (2000) and The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998), as well as television episodes and documentaries. He leads the blues rock band Joe Delia & Thieves.
