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Career

Rubin began his professional career making music for advertising. He founded the music production company Murmur Music Inc. in 1993. Murmur created music and sound design for commercials and promotional pieces for American Express, AMC, AT&T, Bell South, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Fisher Price, The Food Network, General Motors, Kraft, Maxwell House, Merck, Motorola, Nabisco, Paramount Pictures, Rockport, Samsung, UPS, VH1, Viacom, Volvo and others. In 1995, Rubin (with writing partner Nick Balaban) created the music and sound design for the pilot episode of ''Blue's Clues''. Rubin and Murmur created the soundtrack for all six seasons of the show as well as music for the traveling theatrical production ''Blue’s Clues Live'', a feature-length direct-to-video movie ''Blue’s Big Musical Movie'', the spin-off ''Blue’s Room'', and other media. Rubin also provided the voice of the character Mailbox. In 2007, Murmur Music partnered with Dubway Studios to form Rhumba Recorders, an audio production company for children's media. Shortly after this partnership, Rubin began writing and producing the songs and score for all seasons of the series ''Bubble Guppies''. Rubin, sometimes under the stage name Seth O'Hickory, has sung and voiced several characters in shows featuring his music. He sang lead vocals as a crab henchman in his song "She's So Mean," featured in the ''Bubble Guppies'' episode "Bubble Puppy's Fin-Tastic Fairy Tale." He is the voice of the sun in "The Planet Song," originally created for ''Blue's Clues'' and then featured in a

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exhibit at the

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in Cape Canaveral.

Filmography

Television

Film

Theatrical

Awards and nominations

* 2016

Daytime Emmy Award The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ...

nomination for Outstanding Original Song for “Little Froggie,” from the ''Bubble Guppies'' episode "The Running of the Bullfrogs" * 2014

winner for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for the ''Bubble Guppies'' (with collaborator John Angier) * 2012

Annie Award The Annie Awards are accolades which the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood, has presented each year since 1972 to recognize excellence in animation shown in cinema and television. Originally desi ...

nomination for Outstanding Achievement: Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production for the ''Bubble Guppies'' episode "Bubble Puppy's Fin-tastic Fairy Tale" * 2008

nomination for Outstanding Original Song - Children's & Animated for "Duck 4" on ''Jack’s Big Music Show'' * 2004

nomination for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for (better yet) ''Blue's Clues''31st Annual Daytime Emmy Award Nominations
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Personal life

According to his Facebook, Rubin is married to Tamara (née Hanneman) and has three sons: Caleb, Tobias and Moses.

References

External links

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Official website of Rhumba Recorders
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