Andrew Gold mother was singer Marni Nixon, who provided the singing voice for numerous actresses, notably Natalie Wood in "West Side Story", Deborah Kerr in "The King and I", and Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady"; his father was Ernest Gold, an Austrian-born composer who won an Academy Award for his score for the movie "Exodus". He had two younger sisters. Gold began writing songs at the age of 13. Abroad in England for school, the 16-year-old Gold scored his first recording contract on the strength of a selection of demos he submitted to Polydor Records' London office. That contract resulted in
Marni Nixon supply the star's singing voice for the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" and the next year she again worked with Kerr to dub her voice in "An Affair to Remember". That year, she also sang for Sophia Loren in "Boy on a Dolphin". In 1960, she dubbed Janet Leigh's voice in "Pepe" and had an on-screen chorus role in "Can-Can". In 1961's "West Side Story", the studio kept her work on the film (as the singing voice of Natalie Wood's Maria) a secret from the actress, and Nixon also dubbed Rita Moreno's singing in the