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Tee Lopes

Portuguese American composer (born 1986) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tee Lopes
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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).

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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.

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Works

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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.

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