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Cliff Martinez

Cliff Martinez

Born: 1954-02-05 • The Bronx, New York, USA

Cliff 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. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

Filmography
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel poster
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
2026 • Self - Drummer, 1983-1986 (archive footage)
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Cliff and Larry: Beginnings
2018 • Self
Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!? poster
Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!?
1992 • Self
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1986] St. Louis, MO
1986 • Drums