Sandro Morales-Santoro
This episode features the Venezuelan composer Sandro Morales-Santoro who composes for film, tv and new media and is based in L.A. In this episode you’ll hear lots of music and our in-depth conversation during which Sandro tells the inspiring story of how he learned to read and write music while attending law school in Venezuela, then was accepted into the Berklee college of music, and was awarded their achievement scholarship, then how moved to L.A. and created community both professionally and personally. Sandro is on the Executive committee for the Composers’ Diversity Collective and we talked about biases in the industry and increasing exposure for composers from diverse backgrounds. Sandro is the fourth film and tv composer I’ve featured on this podcast so far, please take a look at my complete catalog of episodes on the About page of this website to check out episodes you may have missed. Like all my episodes, this is available wherever you listen to podcasts, is a video on my YouTube channel, and the transcript is also linked below.
