Robert Lopez was born to his parents, Katherine Lopez and Frank Lopez.
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His parents have been supportive of him and had bought him his first piano at age seven.
His father, Frank, is of Filipino and Scottish-American heritage. He also works as director of publications for NYU Langone Medical Center.
Who Is Robert Lopez?
Robert Lopez is a renowned songwriter and musical composer famous for his collaborations with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, in writing songs for the Disney animation films Frozen, Frozen II, and Coco.
The duo had also created songs for the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” (2011), and lyrics for Avenue Q” (2003), both of which won awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score.
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Born on February 23, 1975, in Manhattan, New York City, Lopez attended Yale University, where he met his wife, and they began working together as songwriters.
Lopez is the youngest person to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony), and winning all four in ten years, before he clocked 39.
In the Disney animated film “Frozen”, Lopez and his wife, co-wrote the popular song “Let It Go”, and for the Disney-Pixar film “Coco”, they wrote the Academy Award-winning song “Remember Me”.
Lopez has additionally worked on many other songwriting projects for many TV series including “Scrubs,” “Winnie the Pooh”, and the Broadway musical “Up Here”.
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