I’ve been a sound designer, composer, and producer for more than 25 years.  I was signed on as a composer and producer for the Universal Music Group (UMG) in 1995. To this day, UMG annually generates hundreds of placements for my songs in film and television.

At Dreamworks SKG, I setup AVID and Final Cut Pro editing bays, trained editors how to perform advanced functions in sound design and video editing and developed a wide array of animation technologies. From years of experience, I have become a solid film and video editor on Avid, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere, integrating my skills with Pro Tools and Logic Audio to achive the best in visual and sound. I am at home in the recording studio.

My music production and sound design ventures were naturally compatible with the animation skills I obtained at DreamWorks, and so I branched out into producing animated feature films of my own.  There was synergy in creating the animated family films, producing the music, sound effects, voice over recordings and editing it all together.  I was contracted to produce and direct “Life's a Jungle”, a 3D animated family film that was released worldwide by Phase 4 Films in 2012. It is a follow up to my 2009 animated feature film “The Prodigy”, another successful production for the worldwide distributor.

For years, I’ve owned Prevalent Music Publishing BMI and MacroCosmic Music Publishing, ASCAP. Through UMG, my songs have been placed in the following feature films: Stealing Harvard, Scary Movie 2, Bedazzled, Next Friday, Drive Me Crazy, Unconditional Love, Monster and on the following TV shows: CSI, Frasier, ER, West Wing, Boomtown, Las Vegas, Law & Order, The Agency, ED, MD's, NYPD Blue, The Tonight Show, Push Nevada, Still Standing, Yes Dear, 20/20, Survivor, The District, King Of Queens, Jack & Jill, Third Watch, Secret Agent Man, Sabrina, Profiler, The Cosby Show, Arli$$, Sex In The City, Oz, Promised Land and many more. Over the last 14 years, MTV has used dozens of my recordings in a majority of its programming, on shows like: The Osbournes, Punk'd, Room Raiders, Wanna Come In, Pimp My Ride, and Undressed.  I also had the honor to score music in "The Pursuit Of Happiness", a film by the great director, Robert Zemeckis.

In the 80's and 90's, I've worked on recordings for Jody Watley, Andre Cymone of Prince's band, Mary Jane Girls, Teena Marie, Billy Preston, The Dazz Band, Parliament-Funkadelic and Billy Idol. Subsequently, as songwriter and lead singer of my own band, I performed live on Natalie Cole's National TV show, where I had the honor to perform alongside Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, After Seven, Patti Labelle, and Whitney Houston. 

Thank you for visiting.

Robert D. Hanna