Tee Lopes

Tiago Lopes, known professionally as Tee Lopes, is a Portuguese American video game composer. He is best known for his contributions in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, starting with Sonic Mania (2017).

Tee Lopes
Lopes in 2024
Background information
Birth name	Tiago Lopes
Born	(1986-11-19) November 19, 1986 (age 38) Coimbra, Portugal
Occupation	Composer
Website	www.teelopesmusic.com

Early life

Lopes was born on Novembevr 19, 1986, in Coimbra, Portugal.^{[citation needed]} In 2009, he uploaded his first Sonic the Hedgehog remix to YouTube,^[1] which led to his career as a video game composer. He would continue to upload remixes, original tracks, and other personal works to this day.^[2]

Career

Lopes first started his work as a hobbyist musician working for indie games and fan games.^[3] After being well-known for Sonic the Hedgehog remixes on YouTube, he went on to compose an HD fan port of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. After its completion, several of its developers including Tee Lopes created PagodaWest Games, an indie game developer.^[4] In 2017, him along with the developers of PagodaWest Games partnered with Sega to develop Sonic Mania, a game that notably featured other well known Sonic fan creators such as Christian Whitehead and Headcannon.^[5] After Mania, Lopes has become a freelance composer and has continued to compose for video games such as Sonic Superstars, Streets of Rage 4, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, and G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra.^[6][7][8][9] On the Twitch charity fundraiser Indieland 2023, it was confirmed that Lopes was composing the soundtrack to the game Penny's Big Breakaway. He has also composed for several web series, such as Sonic Mania Adventures, SomecallmeJohnny and Scott the Woz.

Works

Video games

Year	Title	Notes
2013	Major Magnet	Lead composer
2017	Sonic Mania
2018	Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom	Opening theme
2019	Team Sonic Racing	Music with several others
	League of Legends	"Arcade 2019: Ultracombo", with Jason Willey
2021	Mighty Fight Federation[10]	Music with several others
	Streets of Rage 4	Mr. X Nightmare downloadable content
2022	Sonic Origins	Animated cutscene score
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge	Lead composer
	Banana Kong 2	Music
	Sonic Frontiers	Divergence prologue animation score
2023	Sonic Superstars	Music with several others
	Sonic Dream Team	Animated intro music
2024	Penny's Big Breakaway	Lead composer
	Berserk Boy	Lead composer
	Contra: Operation Galuga	"Snow & Mechanica", with Jonny Atma
	Tomba! Special Edition	Credits theme arrangement[11][better source needed]
	G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra	Music with several others
	Metal Slug Tactics	Music[12]
2025	Friday Night Funkin'	"Senpai (Pico Mix)", with Saruky[citation needed]
	Shinobi: Art of Vengeance	Music with Yuzo Koshiro[13]

Web series

Year	Title	Notes
2017	Sonic Mania Adventures	Lead composer
2018	SomecallmeJohnny	Guest composer
2020	Scott the Woz (season 4)	"Credits Theme"
2022	Caddicarus	Guest composer
2023	Scott the Woz (season 6)	"Staff Roll"

Awards

Tee Lopes has won an award for IGN's People's Choice Vote for Best Original Music award for his work on Sonic Mania.^[14] He has also been nominated for a Independent Composer of the Year award in VGMO's 2019 Annual Game Music Awards for his contributions to the Team Sonic Racing soundtrack.