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Heitor Teixeira Pereira (Portuguese pronunciation:[ejˈtoʁ tejˈʃejɾɐ peˈɾejɾɐ]) (born November 29, 1960), or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer. In his career, Pereira has recorded with the band Simply Red and several famous musicians, such as Elton John, Rod Stewart, k.d. lang, Milton Nascimento, and Jack Johnson, and currently works as a film score composer, as well as a musician at Hans Zimmer's studio, he is best known for being the composer of the Despicable Me franchise. Although primarily a guitarist, he also provided backing vocals live for the Simply Red song "Thrill Me". He also collaborates with film directors Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda, Raja Gosnell, and Cal Brunker. In 1994, he released a solo album in the UK called Heitor TP, which featured a guest appearance from Mick Hucknall on the track "Manchester." Heitor left Simply Red to concentrate on his solo career. He played guitar and composed additional music for soundtracks like Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The Road to El Dorado, Pearl Harbor, I Am Sam, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Rango, Madagascar, and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. In 2003, Pereira contributed the song "Remember Me" to the soundtrack for Something's Gotta Give. In 2006, Heitor Pereira won a Grammy Award for 'Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist' on a version of the song "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" by Chris Botti and Sting. In 2011, he played guitar on the film Cowboys & Aliens soundtrack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heitor Pereira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Heitor Pereira
Composer
for Composer in The Wild Robot (2004)
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A storm causes a Universal Dynamics cargo ship to lose ROZZUM robots, which wash up on an uninhabited island. Only ROZZUM Unit 7134 ("Roz") survives and is accidentally activated by wildlife. Roz frightens the animals and injures herself while trying to help them, even after learning their language. Unable to find anyone needing her services, Roz signals for retrieval, but she is struck by lightning and attacked by animals. While fleeing an aggressive grizzly bear, she accidentally crushes a goose nest, resulting in the deaths of all the birds and eggs except one egg. Roz protects the egg from a hungry fox, Fink. A gosling hatches and imprints on Roz. It breaks her long-range transponder. Following advice from Pinktail, an opossum with many youngsters, Roz cares for the gosling to ensure he can fly before the winter migration. Fink discovers he can benefit from Roz, who builds a shelter. Roz names the gosling Brightbill, and the three cohabit. As Brightbill grows, he learns to swim but is mocked by other geese. When Brightbill discovers Roz killed his family, he feels betrayed and angrily disowns her before storming off.
