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Mike Reagan
BornLos Angeles, United States
GenresTelevision, film, video games
Occupation(s)Composer, songwriter, music producer

Mike Reagan is an American composer, songwriter and music producer for film, television, and video games. His TV work includes The Powerpuff Girls, Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt, and Bob Boyle's Wow Wow Wubbzy.[1] His film work includes Any Given Sunday, Odnoklassniki.ru: naCLICKay udachu starring Snoop Dogg, the original song "Heart and Soul" for Ripple Effect[2] featuring Asdru Sierra from Ozomatli, and the song "Take The First Step" for the Sony Pictures / Jim Henson Studios feature film Elmo in Grouchland,[3] which won a Grammy Award for Best Children's Soundtrack. Reagan is the voice of the Tarzan yell in the 1999 Walt Disney Studios film Tarzan.

His video game work include Square Enix' Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, Valhalla Game Studios Devil's Third, and Sony Interactive Entertainment's God of War,[4] God of War II, God of War III, God of War: Chains of Olympus, and God of War: Ghost of Sparta,[5] which won several awards including the Interactive Academy Award, Game Audio Network Guild's Music of the Year and Best Original Soundtrack.[6] Other game projects include Conan, Twisted Metal: Black, NBA 2K8, Darkwatch, Rise of the Kasai[7] and Brute Force.[8]

Career

Reagan studied guitar, composition, and music synthesis at Berklee College of Music[9] in Boston, Mass. He began his professional career as a sound designer at Soundelux,[10] Hollywood. Reagan's work was recognized with an Academy Award nomination for sound design in John Woo's Face/Off.[11] It was during this project that Reagan met director John Woo, and composers John Powell, Hanz Zimmer and other notable talent working at what is now known as Remote Control Productions (American company).

While continuing his career in sound design, Reagan began simultaneously writing and producing original songs for various films. At the same time, Reagan began scoring top video games for Walt Disney Studios, Activision, Microsoft, Universal and Sony Computer Entertainment including the God of War and Twisted Metal Franchises, as well as iconic properties such as Conan,[12] The Transformers,[13] Darkwatch, Darksiders,[14] Marvel's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse[15] and many others.[16]

As film and television projects soon followed, Reagan found his way to a full-time career as a composer. First with the films Unbeatable Harold[17] starring Henry Winkler, and Magic Laptop starring Snoop Dogg. Episodic television work soon followed, and to date Reagan has written the scores and songs for hundreds of television episodes including Bob Boyle's Wow Wow Wubbzy, Rovio's Angry Birds Toons[18] series, Cartoon Network’s The Powerpuff Girls (2016 TV series), and the 2020 Netflix release of Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt.[19] Reagan is currently scoring the upcoming feature film: Abby's List: a Dogumentary, scheduled for release in 2021.

Discography

Composer

Television
Year Title Studio/Production Company
2006-2009 Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Starz
2009 Wow Wow Wubbzy: Wubb Idol Discovery Family Channel, Chalkline Productions, Bolder Media for Boys and Girls
2009 Ape Escape Toonzone Studios, Hawaii Film Partners, Frederator Studios
2011 Sports Ballz Blue Apples Media
2013-2016 Angry Birds Toons Atomic Cartoons, Rovio Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television
2019 The Wonderful Wingits Cartoon Network Studios
2016-2017 The Powerpuff Girls (2016 TV series) Cartoon Network Studios
2020–present Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt Netflix
2020 Trick Moon Cartoon Network Studios
Video Games
Year Title Production Company
1999 Villains' Revenge Disney Interactive
1999 Xena: Warrior Princess Vivendi Universal Games
2000 NHL 2001 EA Sports
2000 NBA 2001 EA Sports
2001 Twisted Metal: Black Incog Inc. Entertainment
2001 Final Four 2002 Sony Computer Entertainment America
2001 Twisted Metal Small Brawl Incog Inc. Entertainment
2002 Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm Treyarch
2003 Brute Force Digital Anvil
2003 Rise to Honor Sony Computer Entertainment America
2004 Van Helsing Saffire
2005 God of War Santa Monica Studio, Sony Computer Entertainment
2005 Rise of the Kasai BottleRocket
2005 Darkwatch: Curse of the West Black Powder Media Inc., Sammy Studios
2007 God of War II Santa Monica Studio
2007 Conan VoiceWorks Productions
2007 Spider-Man: Friend or Foe Artificial Mind & Movement (A2M), Beenox, Columbia Pictures
2008 God of War: Chains of Olympus Ready at Dawn Studios
2010 Darksiders PCB Productions
2010 God of War III Santa Monica Studio
2010 God of War: Ghost of Sparta Ready at Dawn Studios
2012 Trials Evolution RedLynx
2012 Outwitters One Man Left Studios
2013 Pudding Monsters ZeptoLab
2013 Amazing Alex Rovio Entertainment
2013 Turbo Racing League DreamWorks Animation
2015 Devil's Third Valhalla & Doobic, Valhalla Game Studios
2017 Life Is Strange: Before the Storm Deck Nine Games, Idol Minds
Film
Year Title Production Company
2002 Nowhere to Hide ICT Productions Inc.
2004 V.E.N.O.M. Blue Apples Media
2006 Unbeatable Harold All Is Well Films, Mirror Images Productions Corp
2008 The Writer Couple (Short) Contradictory Elements, Nomadic Creations
2012 Angry Birds: Meet the Pink Bird (Short) Rovio Entertainment
2012 Angry Birds Star Wars Cinematic Trailer (Short) Rovio Entertainment
2013 Odnoklassniki.ru: naCLICKay udachu Art Pictures Studio
2014 Somewhere in the Valley (Short) n/a
2014 Funeral Friends (Short) n/a
2015 American Snapper (Short) Hazel Films
2020 Abby's List: A Dogumentary Albert Pictures[20]

References

  1. ^ McLean, Tom (14 May 2010). "Mike Reagan Music Expands Staff". Animation Magazine.
  2. ^ "Ripple Effect". www.rippleeffectthemovie.com.
  3. ^ "Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, The (1999) - Music - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  4. ^ Liparota, Matt (17 April 2012). "Trials: Evolution tunes composed by God of War music man". XBLAFans.
  5. ^ "Composer Mike Reagan".
  6. ^ "Top talent to contribute to development of Conan".
  7. ^ "Rise of the Kasai (2005) PlayStation 2 credits". MobyGames.
  8. ^ "Original Soundtrack - Brute Force / Game O.S.T. | daddykool".
  9. ^ "64-Bit Symphonies | Berklee College of Music". www.berklee.edu.
  10. ^ "Mike Reagan Interview: Going to War". VGMO -Video Game Music Online-. 15 March 2010.
  11. ^ "BSOSpirit -- Interview with Mike Reagan and Cris Velasco". www.bsospirit.com.
  12. ^ "Conan [Original Game Soundtrack] - Mike Reagan | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic".
  13. ^ "Michael Reagan Video Game Credits and Biography". MobyGames.
  14. ^ "Mike Reagan Music Expands Business and Music Management Team :: Film Music Magazine".
  15. ^ "Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards". Below the Line. 20 February 2019.
  16. ^ "Michael A. Reagan". IMDb.
  17. ^ Barker, Andrew (10 June 2009). "Unbeatable Harold". Variety.
  18. ^ "Angry Birds Toons". music by douglas black heaton.
  19. ^ "Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt (Season 2)". Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt (Season 2).
  20. ^ "With Albert Pictures (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)". IMDb.
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