Germaine Franco
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Germaine Franco | |
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Music Producer | |
Instruments | Piano, keyboards, percussion, accordion, guitar |
Years active | 2007–present |
Website | germainefranco |
Germaine Franco is an American
In 2018, Univision named Franco one of the Top 15 Latinas who are changing the world.[4] Other film and television scores Franco has contributed to include Coco (2017), Tag (2018), Dope (2015), Vida (2018), Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019), and Little (2019).[5][6] Her work has been performed at concert halls such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall with The Los Angeles Master Chorale,[7] The Puerto Rico Symphony, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra, and The Chicago Philharmonic, among others.
Early life
Franco was born in California.[8] She attended the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where she studied percussion and composition, earning a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a master's in 1987. It was during this time she started writing music in addition to performing.[9]
Filmography
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2007 | 3 Américas | Cristina Kotz Cornejo | — |
2009 | Entre Nos | Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte | |
A Crushing Love | Sylvia Morales | ||
2010 | Visions of Aztlan | Jesus Salvador Treviño | |
2012 | Margarita | Dominique Cardona Laurie Colbert |
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2013 | Living on One Dollar | Zach Ingrasci, Sean Leonard, and Chris Temple | |
2014 | The Book of Life | Jorge Gutierrez
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East LA Interchange | Betsy Kalin | composer: additional music | |
2015 | Dope | Rick Famuyiwa | Nominated — Black Reel Award for Outstanding Original Score |
2016 | Shovel Buddies | Adam Townley Simon Atkinson |
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2017 | Coco | Lee Unkrich | Score composed by Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production (Shared with Giacchino, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez , and Molina)
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Walk with Me: On The Road With Thich Nhat Hanh | Marc Francis, Max Pugh | ||
Coco VR Experience | |||
Motiongate | Steve Hickner & Gary Trousdale | ||
2018 | Tag | Jeff Tomsic | — |
Public Disturbance | Danny Lee | — | |
Kung Fu Panda: The Emperor's Quest | Steve Hickner & Gary Trousdale | ||
Chiefs | Zenta Fuentes | Composed with John Debney | |
Life-Size 2 | Steven K. Tsuchida | ||
Vida | Various | ||
2019 | Epcot Center: The Music of Coco | Music Producer, Arranger and Curator | |
Little | Tina Gordon | — | |
Someone Great | Jennifer Kaytin Robinson | ||
Dora and the Lost City of Gold | James Bobin | Composed with John Debney | |
Curious George: Royal Monkey | Doug Murphy | — | |
The Casagrandes | Miguel Puga Mike Nordstrom |
Main Titles Theme Composer/Songwriter; Score Composed by Jonathan Hylander | |
The Loud House | Michael Rubiner | Songwriter/Composer – "Greatest One Of All Time" | |
2020 | Work It | Laura Terruso | — |
The Sleepover | Trish Sie | — | |
Curious George: Go West, Go Wild | Michael LaBash | — | |
Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness - Theme Park | Dean Orion | ||
Yearley Departed – TV Special | Linda Mendoza | ||
2021 | Encanto[10] | Byron Howard Jared Bush |
Composer Songs by Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production
Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated — Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score |
2022 | A Cloud Never Dies | Marc J. Francis and Max Pugh | |
2023 | The Mother[11] | Niki Caro | — |
References
- ^ "Encanto Composer Germaine Franco on the New Disney Classic". 25 January 2022.
- ^ "Germaine Franco Talks Scoring 'Tag' & The Lack of Female Composers in Hollywood: 'It's Not a Glass Ceiling, It's Made of Cement'". Billboard. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ "Why The Mother Broke A 2023 Netflix Streaming Record". ScreenRant. 27 May 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ "Germaine Franco: For bringing Mexican music to the big screen".
- ^ "Interview with Germaine Franco :: Film Music Magazine". Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ "Dora and the Lost City of Gold". People en Español. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ "Composer".
- ^ "Germaine Franco".
- ^ "Oscar nominee Germaine Franco on building a career in music: 'Whatever it is you love to do, that's what you should be doing'". Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice University. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ "Germaine Franco Scoring Disney's 'Encanto'". filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "Germaine Franco Scoring Niki Caro's 'The Mother'". Film Music Reporter. 1 May 2023.
Further reading
- Disney/Pixar's Coco Songbook: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2017.
- Heran Mamo, "Germaine Franco Talks Scoring 'Tag' & The Lack of Female Composers in Hollywood: 'It's Not a Glass Ceiling, It's Made of Cement'" (Billboard, 6/14/2018).
External links
- Official Website
- Germaine Franco on Twitter
- Germaine Franco at IMDb
- Germaine Franco on Discogs
- GERMAINE FRANCO - Getting into the business. Orchestral Tools (Mar 5, 2019). YouTube video.