Emily Bear & Abigail Barlow, known as Barlow & Bear, on writing the soundtrack for 'Moana 2,' which makes them the youngest and first all-female composers of a Disney animated movie.
The songwriting duo, who are 26 and 23, respectively, are already Grammy winners as Barlow & Bear; individually, Bear toured as the pianist on Beyoncé’s 2023 “Renaissance” tour and was a prodigy of Quincy Jones’, and Barlow a pop songwriter and singer. Working as a duo since 2019, they now are making history.
“And she becomes an even bigger leader in this film,” Barlow says. “So having to step up to the plate as a songwriter that has never done anything outside of writing a pop song, which is my background, that was how I really connected it. I just had to put myself in the shoes of a Disney heroine, which is a fun challenge.”
Bear, meanwhile, is from Rockford, Ill., and has been playing piano professionally since she was a child. She appeared on “The Ellen Show” starting at the age of 6, performed at the White House and released a jazz album produced by Jones, all as a kid. When she landed at NYU, she discovered film scoring and knew it was what she wanted to pursue. played with an orchestra for the first time, I was like, this is the best in the world. Why wouldn’t anyone want to do it?” she says.
The timing worked out perfectly: for more than six months leading up until then, Bear had been trying to get gigs scoring projects but had been striking out.
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