Fact #196477
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Samuel J. Hoffman is born in New York City, USA. He will become a notable player of the early electronic musical instrument the theremin. He will feature prominently on several science fiction movie soundtracks, and will record three studio albums with bandleader Les Baxter, regarded as forerunners of the exotica genre. As late as 1967, he will work with Captain Beefheart.