Name: Guajira Mexicana by Germaine Franco
Duration: 1 min 11 s
Description: Music Composed and Produced by Germaine Franco

Music Composed and Produced by Germaine Franco

Guajira Mexicana

Germaine Franco is an accomplished composer, orchestrator, and percussionist working in Hollywood today. Having worked on over forty feature film productions, Franco has extensive expertise in all stages of the music production process. Her body of work includes scoring feature films, documentaries, television, video games, and digital media.  She specializes in combining world music with orchestral film music to create a unique sound.  She holds a Bachelor Degree and Master Degree in Music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.

Recently, Germaine scored DOPE, directed by Rick Famuyiwa, produced by Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions and Pharrell Williams’ iamOTHER Entertainment. Pharrell Williams wrote original songs for the film. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Open Road and Sony Pictures will distribute the film.  It will be released in North American theaters on June 19, 2015.

Last year, Franco worked with Social Gaming Network’s creative team to compose and produce the music for the new Book of Life: Sugar Smash video game. The game is available at the Apple App Store.  In addition, she wrote additional music with Gustavo Santaolalla for The Book of Life film, released October 17th, 2014 by 20th Century Fox. Franco co-composed, arranged, and produced the original theme music for the popular game Angry Birds Rio for Fox Mobile and Rovio. The game sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.

Germaine’s dynamic score to the award-winning feature film Margarita, directed by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert, received international attention. The film was released theatrically in Canada by Mongrel Films. Margarita, screened at many international film festivals and venues including The British Film Institute, The Palm Springs International Film Festival, The Prague International Film Festival, and The Washington D.C. International Film Festival.  Margarita currently airs on HBO Canada. The original soundtrack is available on iTunes.

Franco worked with film composer John Powell on over thirty-five feature films and international blockbusters, contributing additional music, orchestrations, music programming, arranging, session production, and percussion performance, on a wide range of films from The Italian Job,  Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Happy Feet, Rio (1 & 2) to How To Train Your Dragon (1 & 2).  She worked with Randy Newman as a music programmer on Toy Story 3 and with Hans Zimmer and John Powell as an overdub music producer on Kung Fu Panda 2.  She completed original Spanish adaptations of songs created by Powell and Chris “Tricky” Stewart for Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax.

In addition to composing, Germaine performs classical, hand, and latin percussion with a variety of artists and ensembles.  Last year, she performed with The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra and Danny Elfman for his spectacular Danny Elfman’s Music From The Films Of Tim Burton Concerts at Nokia Theatre in LA and The Honda Center in Anaheim.  She worked with The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Jack Black, Judith Hill, Hans Zimmer, John Powell,  Harry-Gregson Williams, Rupert Gregson-Williams, and Lorne Balfe for the Dreamworks Animation 20th Anniversary Concert at The Hollywood Bowl. She was a guest artist with Sergio Mendes and Sheila E. at the “2013 New Year’s Eve Celebration” at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
