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 in the role of Mrs. Higgins. In 1950, Nixon married the first of her three husbands, Ernest Gold, who composed the theme song to the movie "Exodus". They had three children, including singer and songwriter Andrew Gold. They divorced in 1969. She was married to Dr. Lajos "Fritz" Fenster from 1971 to 1975, and to woodwind player Albert Block from 1983 to his death in 2015. Nixon survived breast cancer in 1985 and 2000 but finally died from the disease on July 24, 2016, in New York, aged 86. On October 27, 2008, Nixon was presented with the Singer Symposium's