Round 5: Tossup 7

This musician sang in Macedonian on Deep Forest’s song “When the Earth Sleeps,” which plays over the end credits of Strange Days. This musician first collaborated with producer Daniel Lanois (“lan-WAH”) on the soundtrack of Alan Parker’s Birdy. A video for this musician features pixilation by the Quay Brothers and dancing roast chickens created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. The Soweto Gospel Choir accompanies this (-5[1])musician on a song written by Thomas Newman. This musician recruited L. Shankar and Youssou N’Dour (“YOO-soo en-DOOR”) for a soundtrack that opens with a (*) duduk melody. A song by this singer of the WALL-E song “Down to Earth” has the all-time (10[1])most played MTV music video. This musician featured artists like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on the album Passion, which expands his soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ. For 10 points, the boombox held up in the air in Say Anything… plays “In Your Eyes,” a song by what singer of “Sledgehammer?” ■END■ (0[1])

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