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Carlos Lopes is a composer, producer, Genie Award Winner, 2 time Gemini nominee and 4 time Golden Reel nominee. He is a highly respected musician across Canada who has produced hundreds of domestic and international musical projects for film, television and albums for more than 25 years.

Carlos’ film credits include “Dinner At Fred’s” with Parker Posey and John Neville produced by George Harrison’s Handmade Films, “Greener Fields” with Giancarlo Giannini and Burt Young, Ken Finkleman’s “Married Life, The Movie”, and “Reel Love” with Burt Reynolds and LeAnn Rimes produced by Nashville’s CMT and EOne. Among his television credits are YTV’s “How To Be Indie”, CBC’s “The Nature of Things” with David Suzuki, The Comedy Network’s “Puppets Who Kill” and Disney’s “The Famous Jett Jackson”.

Leading his own bands Carlos has performed at The Montréal Jazz Festival, Québec Festival D’Eté, Festi-Jazz de Rimouski, Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Beaches International Jazz Festival (Toronto), Harbourfront (Molson Jazz Festival, Toronto), Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria duMaurier Jazz Festivals, and at the Ontario Pavillion, Expo ’86 (Vancouver).

Carlos has played guitar with artists like Shirley Eikhard, Cécille Frenette and Sunny Paxton, and jazz icons Maury Kaye, Phil Nimmons, Claude Ranger and Terry Clark as well as leading his own bands with Earl Seymour and Kevin Breit.

Some of the talent he has written music for and/or produced are Mike Murley, Julie Masi, Richard Lavoie and Robert Cyr, Liz Rodrigues, Dawn Aitken, Lyne Trembley, Damhnet Doyle, Devine Brown, Rex Goudy, Vaness, Sierra Noble, Rebecca Nazz, Ariana Gillis and Suba Sankaran.