Biography
Cliff Robert Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers (2012), The Foreigner (2017), and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Solaris (2002), Contagion (2011) and Traffic (2000) and Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), The Neon Demon (2016) and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young (2019). On April 14, 2012, Martinez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2011
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
1987
Freaky Styley
1985
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
1984
What Hits!?
1992
Ice Cream For Crow
1982
Higher Ground
1990
The Abbey Road E.P.
1988
The Big Heat
1986
War Stories
2007
Taste The Pain
1990
13.13
1982
My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2014
The Knick (Cinemax Original Series Soundtrack)
2014
Only God Forgives (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2013
We Got The Neutron Bomb - Weird World Volume Two 1977 - 1989
2003
Weird World - Volume One 1977-1981
1991
Condor
1990
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
1988
We Got The Neutron Bomb
1978
Solaris (Original Motion Picture Score)
2002
Credited work
561 releases · 60 albums · active 1981–2025
- Performance · 978
- Other credits · 293
- Production · 136
- Engineering · 36
Studios: Eldorado Recording Studios · Baby'O Recorders · Capitol Studios · Can-Am Recorders
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Captain Beefheart
- The Dickies
- Stan Ridgway
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Lydia Lunch
- The Weirdos