American composer
His recording of "Gonna Fly Now (Theme from " Rocky )" reached #1 in July 1977.
Majored in piano and composition at Louisiana State University and earned a masters degree at Juilliard School of Music in New York.
On April 22, 2008, before a packed house at the LSU Union Theatre at Louisiana State University, Conti was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6451 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 10, 1989.
If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it. .
