Robert Anthony Navarro
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Robert Anthony Navarro is an American
award-winning music composer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who specializes in contemporary music styles.
, New York City
to Playboy Bunny
/Stunt Woman/Interior Designer Carole Lee Dreyfus Navarro and her husband, Latin entertainer Bobby Navarro. Robert is the godson of influential Latin jazz
and mambo musician Tito Puente
(often credited as "El Rey" (the King) of the timbales
and "The King of Latin Music"), best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that helped keep his career going for 50 years. Robert is also the nephew of Bette Ford
, the first American
bullfighter to fight in the Plaza Mexico
, making history for the United States
.
Composer of over 2000 pieces, Robert's credits include the 2007 Monday Night Football
theme for ESPN Heavy Action
, the 2007 Kansas City Royals
Baseball
theme, collaborations with award- winning Burt Bacharach
lyricist Hal David
, engineer/producer Wyn Davis (Total Access Recording), and several Video Game titles.
Robert is adept at Guitar
, Bass
, Vocals and Percussion. In 2007 Navarro recorded Guitar and Vocals in collaboration with C.C. DeVille of Poison
and Fred Coury
of Cinderella
, as well as Vocals on tracks for Ringside
drummer Norm Block and Kirk Hellie (formerly of Steve Jones
of the Sex Pistols
).
As a music producer, Robert has worked with several notable artists including film composer Jeff Rona
, Jeffrey Cain and Leslie Van Trease of Remy Zero
, George Lynch
of Dokken
and Lynch Mob, and Scott Rockenfield
and Michael Wilton
of Queensrÿche
.
In the world of Game Audio, Robert has collaborated with several well-known composers including Inon Zur
, Cris Velasco
, Sascha Dikiciyan, Garry Schyman
, Jason Graves
and Chris Rickwood
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
award-winning music composer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who specializes in contemporary music styles.
Biography
Robert was born in ManhattanManhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
to Playboy Bunny
Playboy Bunny
A Playboy Bunny is a waitress at the Playboy Club. The Playboy Clubs were originally open from 1960 to 1988. The Club re-opened in one location in The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas in 2006...
/Stunt Woman/Interior Designer Carole Lee Dreyfus Navarro and her husband, Latin entertainer Bobby Navarro. Robert is the godson of influential Latin jazz
Latin jazz
Latin jazz is the general term given to jazz with Latin American rhythms.The three main categories of Latin Jazz are Brazilian, Cuban and Puerto Rican:# Brazilian Latin Jazz includes bossa nova...
and mambo musician Tito Puente
Tito Puente
Tito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...
(often credited as "El Rey" (the King) of the timbales
Timbales
Timbales are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing, invented in Cuba. They are shallower in shape than single-headed tom-toms, and usually much higher tuned...
and "The King of Latin Music"), best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that helped keep his career going for 50 years. Robert is also the nephew of Bette Ford
Bette Ford
Bette Ford, , is an actress and former model and professional bullfighter...
, the first American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
bullfighter to fight in the Plaza Mexico
Plaza México
The Plaza México, situated in Mexico City, is the world's largest bullring. This 48,000-seat facility is usually dedicated to bullfighting, but many boxing fights have been held there as well, including Julio César Chávez's third bout with Frankie Randall...
, making history for the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Composer of over 2000 pieces, Robert's credits include the 2007 Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football is a live broadcast of the National Football League on ESPN. From to it aired on ABC. Monday Night Football was, along with Hallmark Hall of Fame, and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest running prime time commercial network television series...
theme for ESPN Heavy Action
Heavy Action
"Heavy Action" is a piece of music composed by Johnny Pearson. It is best known in the UK as the theme for Superstars, and in North America as the theme music for ABC and ESPN's Monday Night Football.-Superstars:...
, the 2007 Kansas City Royals
Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...
Baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
theme, collaborations with award- winning Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach
Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...
lyricist Hal David
Hal David
Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
, engineer/producer Wyn Davis (Total Access Recording), and several Video Game titles.
Robert is adept at Guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, Bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, Vocals and Percussion. In 2007 Navarro recorded Guitar and Vocals in collaboration with C.C. DeVille of Poison
Poison (band)
Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,...
and Fred Coury
Fred Coury
Fred Coury is best known as the drummer for the glam metal band Cinderella. Coury lists Neil Peart, Peter Criss, Bobby Blotzer, Eric Carr, Tommy Lee and Tommy Aldridge as his drumming inspirations....
of Cinderella
Cinderella (band)
Cinderella is an American heavy metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal band, but then shifted over towards a more hard...
, as well as Vocals on tracks for Ringside
Ringside
Ringside is an indie rock band from Hollywood, California, originally formed in Los Angeles. They specializing in fusing indie rock with electronic beats. The band consists of Scott Thomas, who does the vocals, guitar, and keyboard, Kirk Hellie , Sandy Chila , Max Allyn , and actor Balthazar Getty...
drummer Norm Block and Kirk Hellie (formerly of Steve Jones
Steve Jones (musician)
Stephen Philip "Steve" Jones is an English rock guitarist, singer and actor, best known as guitarist and founding member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.-Childhood:...
of the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
).
As a music producer, Robert has worked with several notable artists including film composer Jeff Rona
Jeff Rona
Jeffrey Carl “Jeff” Rona is an American composer for film. He was a member of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures. His credits include Sharkwater, Slow Burn and Whisper.-Biography:...
, Jeffrey Cain and Leslie Van Trease of Remy Zero
Remy Zero
Remy Zero were a Birmingham, Alabama-based alternative rock band made up of Cinjun Tate , Shelby Tate , Cedric LeMoyne , Jeffrey Cain and Gregory Slay prior to his death in January 2010.-History:Before Remy Zero had released any full length albums, Radiohead found their demo tape and invited...
, George Lynch
George Lynch
George Lynch may refer to:*George Lynch *George Lynch *George Lynch...
of Dokken
Dokken
Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide...
and Lynch Mob, and Scott Rockenfield
Scott Rockenfield
Scott Rockenfield is the drummer for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche and the band Slave to the System....
and Michael Wilton
Michael Wilton
Michael Wilton is an American guitarist for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche. Wilton attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where he met future Queensrÿche drummer Scott Rockenfield and began recording in 1981...
of Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche
thumb|250px|right|Queensrÿche's classic line-up performing at the [[Sauna Open Air Metal Festival]] 2011 in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]. Left to right: bass Eddie Jackson, lead vocals Geoff Tate, drums Scott Rockenfield and guitars Michael Wilton....
.
In the world of Game Audio, Robert has collaborated with several well-known composers including Inon Zur
Inon Zur
Inon Zur is an Israeli American music composer who has won several awards for his work. Originally writing for movies and television, he later moved into composing for video games. He has been described as being "internationally recognized as one of the A-list orchestral composers in the video...
, Cris Velasco
Cris Velasco
Cris Velasco is an American video game and film composer. He has been featured in the God of War video game series, with four tracks on the God of War, four on the God of War II, and five on the God of War III soundtracks...
, Sascha Dikiciyan, Garry Schyman
Garry Schyman
Garry Schyman is an American film, television, and video game music composer. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in music composition in 1978, and began work in the television industry, writing music for such television series as Magnum, P.I. and The A-Team. By...
, Jason Graves
Jason Graves
Jason Graves is an award-winning American television, film and video game music composer. He is more recently known for his musical score for Dead Space, a survival horror-action video game.-Biography:...
and Chris Rickwood
Chris Rickwood
Chris Rickwood is a Game Audio Network Guild award winning composer from Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently working on several new projects with Cartoon Network and is activity composing new music for various unannounced developers....
.
Filmography
- Fast & Furious - Universal PicturesUniversal Pictures-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...
(additional music) (credited) - Annapolis - Touchstone PicturesTouchstone PicturesTouchstone Pictures is an American film production label and is one of several film labels of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. Established in 1984, its releases typically feature more mature themes and darker tones than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.Touchstone...
(end credit music) (uncredited) - The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift DVD - New Wave Entertainment (uncredited)
- The Recess EndsThe Recess EndsThe Recess Ends is a documentary film by brothers Austin and Brian Chu about the 2008-2009 recession. They crossed the United States to document the effects of the recession on people and communities, and filmed in all 50 states....
- Chu Brothers Productions
Game Audio Discography
- Dragon Age: OriginsDragon Age: OriginsDragon Age: Origins is a single-player role-playing video game developed by BioWare's Edmonton studio and published by Electronic Arts. It is the first game in the Dragon Age franchise...
- BiowareBioWareBioWare is a Canadian video game developer founded in February 1995 by newly graduated medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip. BioWare is currently owned by American company Electronic Arts... - Monday Night Combat - Uber Entertainment
- Colin McRae: Dirt - CodemastersCodemastersThe Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...
- Real Racing 2 - FiremintFiremintFounded in 1999 by CEO Robert Murray, Firemint is a developer and publisher of video games based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally an independent company, in May 2011, Electronic Arts announced the acquisition of Firemint Pty Ltd for an undisclosed sum, making it an in-house studio for EA...
- Zombeat - 3G Studios, Inc.
- Lips - MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
- Naruto: The Broken Bond - UbisoftUbisoftUbisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....
- Naruto: Rise Of A Ninja - UbisoftUbisoftUbisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....
- Driver '76 - UbisoftUbisoftUbisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....
- Surf's UpSurf's Up (video game)Surf's Up is the video game based on Sony Pictures Animation film of the same name. Surf's Up the video game follows the basic story of Cody Maverick in the movie...
- UbisoftUbisoftUbisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries.... - FIFA Manager '07 - EA SportsEA SportsEA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...
- RUSH - Midway GamesMidway GamesMidway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...
- L.A. RUSH - Midway GamesMidway GamesMidway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...
- American Chopper: Full Throttle - ActivisionActivisionActivision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...
Production Music Library Discography
- Pop, Rock & Alternative - Associated Production Music (APM)
- Alternative Singer Songwriters - KPM MusicKPM MusichouseKPM Musichouse is a company which provides library music, formed by the merger of KPM and Musichouse .-History:KPM music has been used in many films and television programmes worldwide...
- Nu Metal Mayhem - KPM Music
- Organica - KPM Music
- Rock Candy - KPM Music
- Pop-Punk & Emo - KPM Music
- Big fat Guitars - KPM Music
- Indie Rock & Beyond - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Amped: Game Audio Vol. 1 - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Amped: Game Audio Vol. 2 - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Body Of Evidence - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Big Bad R&B - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Exposed: Ultimate Reality TV - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Coffee House: Now - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Ignition - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Mosh Pit: Nu Metal Meltdown - Sonoton Recorded Music Library
- Alternative Rock Invasion - Ded Good Music
- Sonic Bling - Ded Good Music
- Sonic Bling 2 - Ded Good Music
- Uber Cool - Ded Good Music
- Uber Cool 2 - Ded Good Music
- Xmas Lites - Ded Good Music
- Punk Rock - West One Music
- Two Hundred - West One Music
- The Lifestyle Lounge - West One Music
- Modern Rock Alternative - West One Music
- Hip-Hop/Nu Metal Union - West One Music
- Pop Rock Central - West One Music
- Enlightenment - West One Music
- Cinematic Contemporary Action - Liquid CinemaLiquid cinemaLiquidCinema is a production music library based in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, that is produced by film composer Jeff Rona. They are notable for having licensed their original music in hundreds of Hollywood film, television and trailer productions...
- Artsy Eclectic - Strip Sounds Boosey & HawkesBoosey & HawkesBoosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Until 2003, it was also a major manufacturer of brass, string and wind musical instruments....
- Uber Angst - Strip Sounds Boosey & HawkesBoosey & HawkesBoosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Until 2003, it was also a major manufacturer of brass, string and wind musical instruments....
- The Natural World - Imagem Music
- American Youth Rock - Bruton Music
- Indie After Midnight - Bruton Music
- Ultra Stylish Dance Pop - Bruton Music
- Heavy Groove Rock - Bruton Music
- Hip Hop Plus - Bruton Music
- Retro American Indie - Bruton Music