Sometimes dreams do come true. When Disney legend Andreas Deja was 11 years old, “The Jungle Book” played at his hometown in Germany and after watching it, he was hooked. He remembers how it cast a…
was 11 years old, “The Jungle Book” played at his hometown in Germany and after watching it, he was hooked. He remembers how it cast a spell on him and how he knew right there and then that he wanted to take part in the Disney magic.
“So, without an actual job, in August 1980, at the age of 23, I moved to the U.S. and entered a new training program at Disney, spending six weeks working under Eric. He helped me make my animation work so that it was good enough to get me that job,” he recalls, adding: “I worked at the Walt Disney Studios for the next 30 years.
To Deja’s surprise, his dear friend, Academy Award-winning composer Richard Sherman who was behind many of the iconic songs in “Mary Poppins” and Deja’s childhood favorite “The Jungle Book,” offered to contribute the main theme and a song that plays on the end credits, ‘Mushka’s Lullaby.’ Composer Fabrizio Mancinelli applied Sherman‘s musical theme throughout his score, recorded in Vienna with a 60-piece orchestra.
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