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'', '' Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt'', and Bob Boyle's ''

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''. His film work includes ''

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''
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starring Snoop Dogg, the original song "Heart and Soul" for Ripple Effect featuring Asdru Sierra from

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, and the song
Take The First Step
for the Sony Pictures / Jim Henson Studios feature film '' Elmo in Grouchland'', which won a

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for Best Children's Soundtrack. Reagan is the voice of the Tarzan yell in the 1999 Walt Disney Studios film ''

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''. His video game work include Square Enix' '' Life Is Strange: Before the Storm'',

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'' Devil's Third'', and Sony Interactive Entertainment's ''

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'', ''

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, God of War: Chains of Olympus'', and '' God of War: Ghost of Sparta'', which won several awards including the Interactive Academy Award, Game Audio Network Guild's Music of the Year and Best Original Soundtrack. Other game projects include '' Conan'', '' Twisted Metal: Black'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Rise of the Kasai'' and '' Brute Force''.

Career

Reagan studied guitar, composition, and music synthesis at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. He began his professional career as a

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, Hollywood. Reagan's work was recognized with an Academy Award nomination for sound design in

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. It was during this project that Reagan met director John Woo, and composers John Powell,

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and other notable talent working at what is now known as

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. While continuing his career in sound design, Reagan began simultaneously writing and producing original songs for various films. At the same time, Reagan began scoring top video games for Walt Disney Studios,

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and

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including the

and

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Franchises, as well as iconic properties such as Conan, The Transformers,

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, Marvel's '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' and many others. As film and television projects soon followed, Reagan found his way to a full-time career as a composer. First with the films ''

Unbeatable Harold ''Unbeatable Harold'' is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Ari Palitz and starring Gordon Michaels, Nicole DeHuff, Henry Winkler, Gladys Knight, Charles Durning, Taryn Manning, Phyllis Diller, Lourdes Benedicto and Dylan McDermott. Based ...

'' starring Henry Winkler, and ''Magic Laptop'' starring Snoop Dogg. Episodic television work soon followed, and to date Reagan has written the scores and songs for hundreds of television episodes including Bob Boyle's '' Wow Wow Wubbzy'', Rovio's ''

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'' series, Cartoon Network’s ''

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'', and the 2020 Netflix release of '' Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt''. Reagan is currently scoring the upcoming feature film
Abby's List: a Dogumentary
scheduled for release in 2021.

Discography

Composer

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reagan, Mike Living people Video game composers American film score composers American television composers Songwriters from California Year of birth missing (living people) American male film score composers American male songwriters