GERMAINE FRANCO is a Grammy winning and Oscar-nominated composer, music producer, and percussionist, who combines her passion for music with her technical and orchestral expertise for film, television, concerts, and interactive media formats. Her extensive resume and inventiveness, has made her a trailblazer in the industry.
Her latest interactive, immersive project was a live-action event collaboration with acclaimed director Carlos Lopez Estrada and his Antigravity Academy production team, in conjunction with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Silent House Productions, and Nexus Studios. The event, For Mexico, For All Time UFC 306 premiered at The Sphere, Las Vegas, featuring state of the art immersive visual and sonic experiences.
Franco is well known for her score to Encanto. She is the first woman to score a Disney animated feature. The soundtrack album for the film reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart in 2022 for several weeks. Beyond her work in animation Germaine has also scored the immensely popular action thriller The Mother directed by Niki Caro, starring Jennifer Lopez. The film is one of Netflix’s highest performing feature film releases to date with a reported 250 million hours viewed, reaching more than 250 million people worldwide.
Her television work includes the hit shows Vida and The Casagrandes. Germaine has also contributed scores to hit comedy feature films Little, directed by Tina Gordon, Tag, directed by Jeff Tomsic, and the Sundance Festival darling Dope, directed by Rick Famuyiwa. While also contributing scores to massive interactive theme park installations at Universals Studios Hollywood DreamWorks Theatre Featuring Kung Fu Panda ride attraction, and Universals Beijing Resorts Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness.
Franco has performed as a percussionist with several major international orchestras and artists, including the Belgian Radio Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Hollywood Symphony, the World Orchestra, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Jack Black, Sergio Mendes, Sheila E. and Judith Hill. Franco performs percussion on all of her scores.
Germaine’s work has been performed in concert halls around the world, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall with The Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The San Francisco Symphony, The Puerto Rico Symphony, The National Symphony Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Houston Symphony, The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, The Taipei Symphony Orchestra. The Encanto and Coco Live concerts have reached millions of audiences in concerts around the world.
Additional award wins include two Annie Awards, a Variety Artisan Award, a Society of Composers and Lyricists Award, and the ASCAP Shirley Walker Award.
Franco holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and an honorary doctorate in music from The San Francisco Conservatory Of Music.