Doug Rockwell (born September 21, 1985) is an Emmy-winning songwriter, record producer and musician based in Los Angeles, CA.

Background

Rockwell is

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. He spent his earlier years touring as a front man for numerous rock acts. During this time, he also began his ascent into writing and producing for various artists which later earned him a seat alongside accomplished producer

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in Los Angeles. Here Doug worked with major acts like

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. In 2015, Rockwell signed a publishing deal with Disney Music Publishing. Since then, he has written and produced for acts such as

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, Joshua Bassett,

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. He later began writing for television and film projects, and in 2017, won the ASCAP Screen Music Award for Top Television Series for his work on Nickelodeon's ''

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''. In 2018, Doug wrote all of the music for ''The Loud House''s Emmy-winning rock opera special “Really Loud Music,” which was the show's highest rated episode. In that same episode he made his television debut by voicing a character based on a fictitious version of himself. He is also known for writing many of the songs for Marvel's “

” franchise. Doug and his writing partner and wife Tova Litvin wrote "Flesh & Bone," which became the hit song of Disney's "Zombies 2" in February 2020 and has since gained over 250,000,000 streams across platforms worldwide, and has been

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Certified Gold. The married duo are also responsible for writing songs on Netflix's hit musical series "Julie & The Phantoms," whose soundtrack reached number 1 on both the US and Australian iTunes charts and peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard Soundtrack chart. In 2023 at the

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, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Original Song alongside his writing partners Tova Litvin and Joshua Bassett for "Finally Free," from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on

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Selected discography

TV and film

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Awards and nominations

References

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