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  • Carmen Twillie
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  • Carmen Twillie is a studio singer and actress best known for her role as the lead vocalist in "Circle of Life."
  • A member of Inner Voices. Singer and actress who portrayed Church Choir Singer 3 on My So-Called Life.
  • A native of Los Angeles' Playa del Rey neighborhood, Carmen Twillie is a longtime friend of Tommy Morgan and has appeared as guest soloist with Morgan's choir. She is best known for singing the Elton John and Tim Rice song "Circle of Life" in the 1994 Disney animated feature The Lion King. Twillie worked with Pink Floyd for their 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, providing additional voices. She provided the singing voice of Stormella in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie in 1998.
  • Twillie's best known performance was in the Disney animated feature The Lion King, as the soloist for "The Circle of Life." Other cartoon chorus or solo credits include A Goofy Movie, Cat's Don't Dance, Rio, The Tigger Movie, the TV series Adventures from the Book of Virtues (theme song vocals), Happy Feet Two, and The Nightmare Before Christmas (in the latter, singing and speaking as the Undersea Gal and the Creature Under the Bed).
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Birthplace
  • Playa del Rey, California, U.S.
Name
  • Carmen Twillie
Years
  • 1984
Born
  • 1950
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  • Twillie's best known performance was in the Disney animated feature The Lion King, as the soloist for "The Circle of Life." Other cartoon chorus or solo credits include A Goofy Movie, Cat's Don't Dance, Rio, The Tigger Movie, the TV series Adventures from the Book of Virtues (theme song vocals), Happy Feet Two, and The Nightmare Before Christmas (in the latter, singing and speaking as the Undersea Gal and the Creature Under the Bed). She has been an active backup singer in albums since the 1970s, heard in support of Tom Jones, Elton John, B.B. King, Diana Ross, and Ray Charles. Film score contributions include the 1986 Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra, Eddie Murphy movies Vampire in Brooklyn and Norbit, Matrix Revolutions, Watchmen, and the 2009 Star Trek film.
  • Carmen Twillie is a studio singer and actress best known for her role as the lead vocalist in "Circle of Life."
  • A member of Inner Voices. Singer and actress who portrayed Church Choir Singer 3 on My So-Called Life.
  • A native of Los Angeles' Playa del Rey neighborhood, Carmen Twillie is a longtime friend of Tommy Morgan and has appeared as guest soloist with Morgan's choir. She is best known for singing the Elton John and Tim Rice song "Circle of Life" in the 1994 Disney animated feature The Lion King. Twillie worked with Pink Floyd for their 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, providing additional voices. She provided the singing voice of Stormella in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie in 1998.
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