Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

OSEI ESSED
Osei Essed is a multi-platform artist, performing and writing for screen and stage. His recent film composition credits include the award-winning films: Jacqueline Olive’s Always in Season (2019 Sundance Special Jury Award), Rayka Zehtabchi’s documenrary short Period. End of Sentence (2019 Academy Award), Keith Maitland’s documentary film Tower (2018 Emmy Award) and the HBO documentary True Justice: Brian Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (2020 Emmy Award). Osei’s most recent credits include Netflix’s documentary series Amend: The Fight for America, Keith Maitland’s documentary film Dear Mr. Brody, Yael Bridge’s The Big Scary ‘S’ Word, Loira Limbal’s Through the Night and Ekwa Masangi’s acclaimed dramatic film Farewell Amor. Essed also performs with the Brooklyn-based bands: The Woes and Big Hands Rhythm and Blues Band.

Osei started playing music as an adolescent after breaking into a burned-out country club with a group of friends. The group was inspired to write and film a horror movie in the building, but after the idea was dismissed by their parents, they shifted their approach and wrote the story as a punk horror musical. Essed played bass in a number of punk and noise bands until discovering Lightnin Hopkins, Bob Dylan, and the acoustic guitar in his late teens and began writing songs inspired by this newly discovered soundscape. 

Film composer Dan Romer had been a member of Osei’s band The Woes for a number of years, and a collaboration with Romer and fellow bandmate Oscar Chabebe on Sara Dosa’s The Last Season was Essed’s first film score.

DAN ROMER
Dan Romer is an award-winning composer, songwriter and music producer based in Los Angeles. Romer’s scores include Pixar’s Luca (Disney+), four-time Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild (Searchlight), Maniac (Netflix), Good Doctor (ABC), Beasts of No Nation (Netflix), Atypical (Netflix), Skin (A24) Wendy (Searchlight) and Emmy award-winning series Ramy (Hulu). In 2018, Romer composed the music for Ubisoft’s flagship video game Far Cry 5. In addition to his scoring work, Dan produced several worldwide hit singles for numerous acclaimed artists including, A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera’s Grammy winning “Say Something,” and Shawn Mendes’ “Treat You Better.”

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