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Emily Bear          

Grammy Award-Winning Composer & Co-Creator of "The (Unofficial) Bridgerton Musical"

A Grammy® Award-winning composer and chart-topping recording artist since her professional debut at age five, Emily Bear has achieved groundbreaking success as a pianist, composer, producer and singer-songwriter in jazz, classical, pop and musical theater.

Now 20 years old, Bear has more than 50 million views on YouTube, a documentary on her life received an EMMY Award and she has performed her original compositions at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, and Montreux Jazz Festival. W Magazine’s It Girl of the Year, Bear has performed for the Dali Lama, played a solo concert at the White House, headlined stadium tours, featured 7 times on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, been named to the Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 list, and honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Bear and her writing partner Abigail Barlow composed the viral Bridgerton Musical inspired by the hit Netflix show. Composing 15 songs in 6 weeks, live on social media, resulting in 60 million likes on TikTok and 250 million views for #bridgertonmusical. Bear orchestrated and produced the album which shot to #1 on the U.S. iTunes pop charts within 1.5 hours of its release, top 5 albums worldwide, and is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Film and media clients include Disney, DreamWorks, Google, Warner Bros., Hulu, and Universal. Bear is a founding board member of the Grammy Recording Academy Leadership Council Songwriters & Composers Wing along with Carole King, Diane Warren, and Hans Zimmer.

News


TikTok duo who composed 'The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical' get ...
Nov 23, 2021 ... A TikTok musical has made the transition from social media darling to Grammy-nominated album. Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, known professionally as Barlow ...
Abigail Barlow, 23, and Emily Bear, 20, Tiktokers, Barlow & Bear
Nov 30, 2021 ... They created the Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, a hit series of parody TikTok songs and videos based on the popular Netflix series Bridgerton.
Is a TikTok musical a Bridgerton too far? Not for Barlow & Bear : NPR
Mar 18, 2022 ... It started with a TikTok post riffing on the the lush drama series. Now, Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear have received a Grammy nomination for their project, ...

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