Question: What is the nationality of the person who wrote the music for "Smile"?
Context: Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor.  Hamlisch was one of only twelve people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.  This collection of all four is referred to as an "EGOT".  He is one of only two people (along with Richard Rodgers) to have won those four prizes and a Pulitzer Prize. Brazilian nationality law is based on both the principles of "jus soli" and of "jus sanguinis".  As a general rule, any person born in Brazil acquires Brazilian nationality at birth, irrespective of status of parents.  Nationality law is regulated by Article 12 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution. Smile is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch and book and lyrics by Howard Ashman.  It was originally produced on Broadway in 1986.  The musical is based loosely on the 1975 comedy film of the same title, from a screenplay by Jerry Belson. Smile (sometimes stylized as SMiLE) was a projected album by American rock band the Beach Boys intended to follow their 11th studio album, "Pet Sounds" (1966).  After bandleader Brian Wilson abandoned large portions of music recorded over a ten-month period, the band substituted its release with "Smiley Smile" (1967), an album containing stripped-down remakes of some "Smile" material.  Some of the original "Smile" tracks eventually found their way onto subsequent Beach Boys' studio and compilation albums.  As more fans learned of the project's origins, details of its recordings acquired considerable mystique, and it was later acknowledged as the most legendary unreleased album in the history of popular music. Nationality law (or citizenship law) is the law in each country and in each jurisdiction within each country which defines the rights and obligations of citizenship within the jurisdiction and the manner in which citizenship is acquired as well as how citizenship may be lost.  A person who is not a citizen of the country is generally regarded as a foreigner, also referred to as an alien.  A person who has no recognised nationality or citizenship is regarded as stateless. Venezuelan nationality law is based on the principle of Jus soli.  Any person born in Venezuela acquires Venezuelan citizenship at birth, irrespective of nationality or status of parents.  Nationality law is regulated by Section 1 of Chapter 2 of the Constitution of Venezuela and by the Nationality and Citizenship Act of 2004 . A British protected person (BPP) is a member of a class of certain persons under the British Nationality Act 1981 associated with former protected states, protectorates, mandated and trust territories under British control.  The inhabitants of these former states or territories were never automatically entitled because of their birthplace to become British subjects or citizens, but were given the status of British protected person instead.  (A few of those born in such areas might have other claims to British nationality; for example, one based on the status of their parents.) Multiple citizenship, also called dual citizenship or multiple nationality or dual nationality, is a person's citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of more than one state under the laws of those states.  There is no international convention which determines the nationality or citizen status of a person, which is defined exclusively by national laws, which vary and can be inconsistent with each other.  Multiple citizenship arises because different countries use different, and not necessarily mutually exclusive, criteria for citizenship.  Colloquial speech refers to people "holding" multiple citizenship but technically each nation makes a claim that this person be considered its national. Israeli nationality law defines the criteria under which a person can be granted citizenship of Israel.  It also deals with the Right of Return for Jewish diaspora.  In general, Israel's nationality follows jus sanguinis as the primary mechanism through which a person may obtain citizenship, rather than jus soli.  A citizen of the modern state of Israel is called an Israeli. Nationality is a legal relationship between an individual person and a state.  Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state.  What these rights and duties are vary from state to state.
Answer: American