Italian composer Nora Orlandi died in Rome on January1, 2025. She was 91. Born in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy on June 28, 1933, she was also known by her pseudonym Joan Christian, was an Italian pianist, violinist, soprano vocalist, composer and occasional actress. As the first female film composer of Italian cinema, she composed scores for Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy films and giallos throughout the 1960s and was best known for "Dies Irae", a short piece she wrote and performed for Sergio Martino's “The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh” (1971) which was later reused in Quentin Tarantino's “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004). Her younger sister is the singer-songwriter Paola Orlandi. Otlandi composed some of the best and most remembered scores of the Spaghetti genre including “Death at Owell Rock” – 1966 (co), “Fort Yuma Gold” - 1966 (co) [sings: “Don’t Cry Cowboy”], “A Gunman Called Nebraska” – 1966, “Johnny Yuma” – 1966, “A Golden Sheriff” – 1966 [as Jan Cristiane] “Savage Gringo” – 1966 [sings: “Cuando se muere el sol”], “Clint the Stranger” – 1967, “$10,000 for a Massacre” – 1967, “Vengeance is Mine” – 1967 [sings “Captain Brown”], “One More to Hell” – 1968 [sings: “Forgive and Not Forget”], “The Price of Power” – 1969 [singer], “Blindman” – 1971 [singer], “These Damned Pounds of Gold” – 1971, “Man of the East” - 1972 [sings: “Jesus Come to My Heart” with 4x4 chorus], “On the Third Day Arrived the Crow” – 1972 and” The Prey of Vultures” – 1972.
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