Robert Lopez

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Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez at the 2004 Tony Award .

Robert "Bobby" Lopez (born February 23, 1975 in New York City ) is an American film and musical composer .

He was first known through the musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon , for which he was awarded the Tony Award . He is one of the few artists to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards and the first artist to win each of these four awards at least twice. As of 2018, he is also the youngest artist to have succeeded and the one who has achieved it in the shortest possible time.

Life

Robert Lopez met budding songwriter Jeff Marx in 1998 . Their first joint work was Kermit, Prince of Denmark (enS: Kermit, Prince of Denmark) , a parody of Hamlet . Although the Jim Henson Company rejected the song, Marx won the Kleban Award with it.

In 1999 the two began working on Avenue Q , using dolls similar to those on Sesame Street . In 2004 they received the Tony Award for the best musical . Robert Lopez then worked with his brother Billy on several episodes of the Nickelodeon series Wonder Pets .

It wasn't until 2007 that Marx and Lopez worked together again for the series Scrubs , for which they wrote four songs. Lopez and his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez also wrote for the films Winnie the Pooh and Ralph Enough , but their song was cut out of the latter. In 2013 he wrote the music for the Disney film Frozen - Totally Unabashed, and won an Oscar for Let It Go in 2014.

At the 2018 Academy Awards , Lopez and his wife won their second Oscar for best movie song with Remember Me from Coco - Alive Than Life! . This made Lopez the first artist with a double EGOT . In 2020 he and his wife were nominated again for an Oscar for Into the Unknown from Frozen II .

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Tony Award

Oscar

Daytime Emmy Award

Drama Desk Award

  • 2011: Musical for The Book of Mormon
  • 2011: Music for The Book of Mormon

Grammy Award

  • 2012 : Best Musical Theater Album for The Book of Mormon
  • 2015 : Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for Frozen - Totally Unabashed
  • 2015: Best Song Written for Visual Media Let It Go from Die Eiskönigin - Völlig unabashed

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dana Schwartz: Oscars 2018: Robert Lopez becomes the first person in history to double EGOT . In: Entertainment Weekly of March 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lopez, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lopez, Bobby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and musical composer
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd February 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City