David Robidoux (from
Reading, Pennsylvania
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)
is an American score composer. He writes film scores for various sporting films and networks, and primarily composes for
NFL Films
NFL Productions, LLC, doing business as NFL Films, is the film and television production company of the National Football League. It produces commercials, television programs, feature films, and documentaries for and about the NFL, as well as ot ...
.
Career
After graduating from
Berklee College of Music
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with degrees in audio engineering and film scoring,
Robidoux began working for NFL Films in 1991 as an audio engineer, and began composing alongside music director
Tom Hedden
Tom Hedden is an American score composer, the former music director at NFL Films, and National Football League Director of Music Administration. In 2009, Hedden left the NFL and has since composed music independently for, among others, NASCAR ...
, who had joined the company the year before. Their first score, ''75 Seasons: The Story of the
National Football League
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'', earned them the
Emmy Award
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for Best Musical Score. They would win four more Emmys
for ''75 Seasons'', along with the productions ''
Favre 4ever'', ''
Emmitt Smith
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: Run With History'', ''NFL Century: In Their Own Words'' and ''
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* Unitas Capital, a private equity firm, formerly known as CCMP Capital Asia
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''.
Altogether, Robidoux would win nine Emmys
for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition/Direction, and was also nominated for the News and Documentary Award category for his score on ''Blood From A Stone'', about diamonds from
The Holocaust
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.
Robidoux has since then gone on to create more than 850 compositions for NFL Films.
In 2000, Robidoux worked with vocal group
Boyz II Men
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on the song ''So Amazing''.
Four years later, Robidoux worked with music producer/mixer
Alan Meyerson
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to compose ''Thunder'', which became
NASCAR
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's official theme music, the first time the association has had one. The music became used in NASCAR broadcasts starting with the
2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series
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season in copyright tags and introductions for international broadcasts. The theme would also be used in
EA Sports
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' ''NASCAR'' video games starting with that year's ''
NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup'' (which uses a rock version of the theme). The following year, a modified version of the music was used in the film ''
Herbie: Fully Loaded'' (which mixes the “Thunder” theme with the Herbie theme) Also in 2005, Robidoux created ''The
Lombardi Trophy
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Theme'', which became the official theme of the
Super Bowl
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. After the launch of
NFL Network
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, Robidoux worked on the thematic branding of the network, and composed the theme music for ''
Thursday Night Football
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'', and also composed for the NFL's
Major League Baseball
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network counterpart's ''
Thursday Night Baseball
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History ''USA Network Thursday Night Baseball'' (1979–1983)
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''. He also composed the score for the
EA Sports
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video games ''
NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup'' and ''
Madden NFL 08
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''.
He is the composer for
HBO
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television series ''
Hard Knocks'', with the
Kansas City Chiefs
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The tea ...
edition winning him an Emmy; Robidoux again worked with HBO on the documentary ''
Lombardi''. Another television series he worked on is
Nicktoons
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' ''
NFL Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core''.
In 2007, Robidoux composed the music for ''
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions''.
In 2011, Robidoux, coordinated by NFL Senior Vice President of Events
Frank Supovitz (who had worked with Robidoux to create a presentation theme for the Lombardi Trophy presentation for
Super Bowl XL
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in 2006), wrote a musical score for NFL Films dubbed by company president
Steve Sabol
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as ''Echoes of Eternity'', which was played at the
Pro Football Hall of Fame
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bust unveilments.
Honors
In 1992 and 1995, Robidoux was awarded the
SESAC
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Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema trailer score. He also won Monitor awards for the documentary ''
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'' and television show ''
Grunt & Punt'' in engineering and sound design. He has also won Telly Awards and
Aurora Award
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s.
Discography
''Source'':
Original Film Scores
* ''
Namath: From Beaver Falls to Broadway''
* ''
Lombardi''
* ''Championship Chase''
* ''The Season''
* ''Super Six Boxing Classic''
* ''Fight Camp 360''
* ''
Hard Knocks (2001–2010)
* ''
America's Game: The Missing Rings''
* ''
Truth in 24''
* ''
Michael Irvin
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– Road To Canton''
* ''Super Bowl Journey''
* ''
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions''
* ''Road To The Super Bowl'' (1996–2012)
* ''
Favre 4-Ever''
* ''Blood From A Stone''
* ''
Super Bowl I
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– A Wild Ride''
* ''
Emmitt Smith
Emmitt James Smith III (born May 15, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys. Among other accolades, he is the lea ...
: Run With History''
* ''
Monday Night Football
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''
* ''
Unitas Unitas may refer to:
* 306 Unitas, a main belt asteroid
* UNITAS, a multi-lateral naval exercise in South and Central America
* Unitas Capital, a private equity firm, formerly known as CCMP Capital Asia
* ''Humani generis unitas'', a planned ency ...
''
* ''NFL Century''
* ''History Of The
U.S. Navy Football''
* ''Summer Camp''
* ''The Bravest Team: Rebuilding
FDNY
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''
* ''Vermiel''
* ''Road To The
Super Bowl
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''
* ''Football America''
* ''Big Game America''
* ''Six Days To Sunday''
* ''75 Seasons''
* ''Jolly Roger''
Opening themes
* ''Turning Point''
* ''
A Football Life
''A Football Life'' is an American documentary series of 116 episodes, developed by NFL Films and aired on NFL Network that documents the lives of select National Football League (NFL) players, coaches, owners, and teams. Friends, teammates, famil ...
''
* ''Echoes Of Eternity''
* ''
NFL Draft
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''
* ''Football Freakonomics''
* ''The Season''
* ''
Showtime
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Sports''
* ''Super Bowl Journey''
* ''Hot Stove''
* ''Inside
NASCAR
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''
* ''
Thursday Night Baseball
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History ''USA Network Thursday Night Baseball'' (1979–1983)
From 1979 to 1983, the USA Network broadcast Major Lea ...
''
* ''
Inside The NFL
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''
* ''
NFL Films
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Presents''
* ''Super Six Boxing Classic''
* ''Fight Camp 360''
* ''The
Lombardi Trophy
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Super Bowl Theme''
* ''
Thursday Night Football
''Thursday Night Football'' (often abbreviated as ''TNF'') is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that broadcast primarily on Thursday nights. Most of the games kick off at 8:15 Eastern Time (8:20 prior to 20 ...
''
* ''Thunder'' (NASCAR – used for international broadcasts and all disclaimers)
* ''NFL Under The Helmet''
* ''NFL Total Access''
* ''NFL Films Presents''
* ''Game of the Week in HD''
* ''Football America''
* ''Tailgate''
Video games
* ''
Madden NFL
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'' (2008–2013)
*
EA Sports NASCAR series
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American film score composers
American male film score composers
NFL Films people
National Football League music
Berklee College of Music alumni
Living people
American audio engineers
Musicians from Reading, Pennsylvania
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Year of birth missing (living people)