Kamen was innate inside New York City, USA and studied at A Future York High School of Music & Art, then Juilliard's School for Music Dance and Drama in New York, where he learned to play the oboe.

He founded a New York Rock & Roll Ensemble in the late 1960s, which played classical-rock music presaging bands such as Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). Kamen played hautbois & keyboards also when composing. One of his songs Sing Lady Sing, was renamed The babies Changes & parlayed into the hit by Buddy Miles.

He worked briefly by using Leonard Bernstein, when his rock ensemble appeared at one of Bernstein's concerts for immature population.

His successes include his operate using Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Roger Waters (he is one of the pack humans to own been invited to operate by having each previous Pink Floyd members, fallowing their bitter split), Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Eurythmics, Metallica, Queen, Herbie Hancock, Bryan Adams and Sting.

Kamen wrote eleven ballets, & provided scores for the films Brazil, Highlander, X-Men, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, Licence to Kill and the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard series, plus numerous others. He as well composed scores for each a From either a Globe to the Moon & Band of Brothers series. He was nominated for ii Academy Awards and won 3 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Ivor Novello Awards, an Annie and an Emmy. Around television, his best known function was on the 1985 BBC Television serial Edge of Darkness, on which he collaborated by using Eric Clapton to write the score. the pair were awarded by having a BAFTA Award for Best Original TV Music for their act.

Around 1990 he joined many more guests for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin.

Kamen was diagnosed by having multiple sclerosis in 1997, but died, reportedly, from either the heart attack.

He was survived by his married woman, Sandra Keenan-Kamen & girl Sasha & Zoe.