Tony Morales is an EMMY-nominated composer known for his sweeping symphonic scores and textural cinematic sound for feature films and television. His orchestral compositions range from dramas and crime thrillers to documentaries, comedies, and animation. His work includes countless hours of music for television on shows such as Amazon Prime's Reacher, Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico on CNN which he was EMMY-nominated for “Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score)” for the 2023 EMMYs and the NBC heist thriller The Endgame. His latest project is Netflix's Fubar, a spy action comedy series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his live-action television debut.

Morales has composed music for several documentaries including the Eva Longoria-directed feature documentary La Guerra Civil which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. He also wrote the music for 30 For 30’s The Dominican Dream which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and tells the story of young immigrant Felipe Lopez, the Dominican Michael Jordan. Morales earned a Primetime EMMY nomination for the mini-series Hatfields & McCoys (co-composed with John Debney). He is also known for his score on all three seasons of Disney’s Elena Of Avalor for which he received multiple Daytime EMMY nominations as well as an Annie Award nomination. For the music of Elena Of Avalor, he mixed various Latin music genres, as well as instrumentation, with the traditional Disney orchestral sound. Tony has collaborated on several projects writing additional music for titles such as Iron Man 3, Fast Five, The Change-Up and Now You See Me.

Born in Southern California, Morales grew up all over the US and now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

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