Paul Soniat
Paul Soniat is the Director of the New Orleans City Park Botanical Gardens.
He was born at the old Touro Hospital in New Orleans.
His family has been in New Orleans since 1727 and he grew up and later lived on the street bearing his family name.
Paul is a self- taught piano player, and has released two CDs, absorbing the sights, sounds, and flavor of New Orleans.
His first CD, titled" Born in New Orleans", was released in April 2005.
His second CD was released after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast and the New Orleans' levees failed.
This second CD is appropriately titled" Below the Water Line".
Randy Newman
Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and film scores.
Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer.
His film scores include "RagtimeAwakeningsThe NaturalLeatherheads"Pleasantville, "Marriage StoryMeet the ParentsCold Turkey" and "Seabiscuit".
He has scored nine Disney-Pixar animated films: "Toy StoryA Bug's LifeToy Story 2Monsters, Inc.
CarsToy Story 3Monsters UniversityCars 3Toy Story 4" and Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" and "James and the Giant Peach."
Newman has received twenty Academy Award nominations in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories and has won twice in the latter category, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
He has also won three Emmys, seven Grammy Awards and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy.
Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 for classics such as "Short People", and as a Disney Legend in 2007.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2013.
Carl Joe Williams
Carl Joe Williams( 30 July 1970, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American visual artist based in New Orleans.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Down in New Orleans (song)
"Down in New Orleans" is a song from Disney's 2009 animated film "The Princess and the Frog", written by Randy Newman.
Several versions of the song were recorded for use in different parts of the film and other materials.
The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 82nd Academy Awards but lost to "The Weary Kind" from "Crazy Heart".
The full version of the song appears at the title sequence in the film, performed by Dr. John.
The song introduces the city of New Orleans and foreshadows the manipulations of Dr. Facilier, the film's main villain.
This is the first full song in the movie and the only one during the film not sung by one of the characters
(Ne-Yo's "Never Knew
I Needed" appears only over the closing credits).
Tiana sings both a prologue to the song at the opening of the film, and a shorter version of the song as a finale at its end.
Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Tiana, also performed the song in full for "The Princess and the Frog: Tiana and her Princess Friends" along with songs by other Disney Princesses, including "Happy Working Song", another Academy Award-nominated song.
A year before the film came out in theatres, Randy Newman himself performed the song at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
The song was nominated for Best Song at the 53rd Grammy Awards; in this category and the Academy Award it lost to "The Weary KindAlmost There", another song from the film, performed by Tiana (Anika Noni Rose), was also nominated for the Oscar.
Willie Birch
Willie Birch is a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, and sculpture.
Birch was born in New Orleans, and currently lives and works in New Orleans.
He completed his BA at Southern University in New Orleans, and received an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
Paul Mares
Paul Mares( June 15, 1900 – August 18, 1949), was an American early dixieland jazz cornet& trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
Mares was born in New Orleans.
His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business.
Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was" King" Joe Oliver.
About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares.
( Brunies thought his New Orleans position of doubling driving a taxi-cab and playing music was more secure than prospects in Chicago.)
Mares established himself as a respected band leader over a group of wild and strong willed musicians, as The New Orleans Rhythm Kings( N.O.R.K.) became one of the best regarded bands in Chicago in the early 1920s.
In late 1924 Mares returned to New Orleans.
He decided to play music on the side while taking over the running of his family fur& hide business.
He ran the business well and with his prosperity purchased 3 homes for himself and his relatives in New Orleans' new suburb of Metairie, Louisiana.
Mares's Metairie home was the site of a legendary jam-session in 1929 where Bix Beiderbecke and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the local New Orleans jazz musicians.
Mares also ran a restaurant in New Orleans called" The Chicago Bar- B- Q".
In the early 1930s he returned to Chicago where he opened up his" New Orleans Bar- B- Q" there.
The" P.M. New Orleans Bar- B- Q" became a gathering place for Chicago jazz musicians and home to numerous jam sessions, which Mares occasionally joined in.
Quint Davis
Quint Davis( born November 5, 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) is an American festival producer and director based in New Orleans.
He is best known as the producer of the New Orleans Jazz& Heritage Festival( Jazz Fest) founded by George Wein.
Davis has been involved in the production of the event from its start in 1970.
He is the CEO of Festival Productions, Inc.- New Orleans, the company that produces the Jazz Fest.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.

Question: What nationality is the composer of song Down In New Orleans (Song)?
Answer: American