Latino composers in film - Coco, Encanto, In the Heights

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www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1125328793/without-these-latino-composers-hollywood-wouldnt-sound-the-same




For Coco, Pixar's animated love letter to Mexico, Franco arranged and orchestrated the score. She brought in familiar elements from her childhood along the El Paso and Juárez border and added the sounds of folkloric dancing. Franco also produced all the recording sessions, with 50 master musicians from Mexico.



"Knowing that there's this connection between my ancestor's Mexican music that goes back, you know, hundreds of years," she says. "There we were, and I was saying to them, 'put the sound that you want, what it should be, not what I want. It should be your sound.'"

Producer Camilo Lara, from the group Mexican Institute of Sound, also worked on Coco. "I even have a cameo in the movie. I'm the deejay at the party," he says from his home recording studio in Mexico City. "It was fun to be portrayed as a skeleton."

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Of course, no story about Latino film composers would be complete without Nuyorican Lin-Manuel Miranda. Like his Broadway musicals, his movies, including In The Heights, incorporate Hip Hop, Latin and musical theater styles.



Miranda's music will be featured in the new Little Mermaid Disney remake, hot off the heels of writing for last year's Oscar-winning animated film Encanto.



For Disney's Encanto, he traveled to Colombia to find inspiration in the diverse musical styles of the country.

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I’ve noticed in my Zumba classes that a large percentage of pop music has Latino influence.

Our culture is changing, and I think it’s for the better

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Oct 3, 2022 7:19:32 GMT -5 Opti said:

Of course, no story about Latino film composers would be complete without Nuyorican Lin-Manuel Miranda. Like his Broadway musicals, his movies, including In The Heights, incorporate Hip Hop, Latin and musical theater styles.



Miranda's music will be featured in the new Little Mermaid Disney remake, hot off the heels of writing for last year's Oscar-winning animated film Encanto.



For Disney's Encanto, he traveled to Colombia to find inspiration in the diverse musical styles of the country.

He also did the music for Moana.

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Oct 3, 2022 7:20:35 GMT -5 swamp said:

Oct 3, 2022 7:19:32 GMT -5 Opti said:

Of course, no story about Latino film composers would be complete without Nuyorican Lin-Manuel Miranda. Like his Broadway musicals, his movies, including In The Heights, incorporate Hip Hop, Latin and musical theater styles.



Miranda's music will be featured in the new Little Mermaid Disney remake, hot off the heels of writing for last year's Oscar-winning animated film Encanto.



For Disney's Encanto, he traveled to Colombia to find inspiration in the diverse musical styles of the country.

He also did the music for Moana.

Moana has some of my favorite Disney songs.