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How Barlow & Bear Ended Up Scoring ‘Moana 2’ — and Made History In the Process

'Moana 2' will be released in theaters Nov. 27 and feature a new soundtrack composed by Barlow & Bear. Read how the duo created the songs here.

Barlow is a pop singer-songwriter who first dreamed of becoming “a musical theater actrice ”; Bear was a wunderkind classical and jazz pianist, a Quincy Jones protegée who played for Beyoncé on the Renaissance tour and was intent on writing film/TV scores. A year later, in 2022, Barlow & Bear met with the creative team for Moana 2 — a sequel to the 2016 animated film about the titular young girl who sets out to save her Polynesian island — which was then planned as a Disney+ streaming series. Their post- Moana 2 slate as a duo includes the forthcoming biopic of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers starring Jamie Bell and Margaret Qualley and their first produced stage musical, currently in development with a creative team attached.

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