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Lucas Cantor Santiago is a two-time Emmy-winning composer, platinum producer, and author. He finished Schubert's Unfinished Symphony with AI; the "completed" symphony is performed around the world. His book, Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, was released by Bloomsbury in 2025. He co-wrote the theme music for Major League Baseball on NBC and College Basketball on Fox and co-produced Lorde's platinum cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." Lucas is a founder and General Partner at Mindset Music Tech, a music technology venture fund, and Mindset Music Rights, a music rights fund.
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Lucas Cantor Santiago is an award-winning composer, platinum producer, multi-instrumentalist, author and speaker.
He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games since 2002. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012). Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.
Lucas's book Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence was released by Bloomsbury in December 2025.
He co-wrote the theme music for Major League Baseball on NBC, College Basketball on Fox, Major League Soccer on Fox, and Breakfast Ball and The Facility on FS1.
Lucas composed the music that opened the 2025 and 2023 NFL Super Bowl coverage on Fox.
Lucas finished Schubert's 8th Symphony (the unfinished symphony) with the help of AI. The full symphony was premiered in London at Cadogan Hall.
He is a founder and General Partner at Mindset Music Tech, a music technology venture fund, and Mindset Music Rights, a music rights fund, and was named to Billboard's Finance 50.
He trailerized Bonnie Tyler's iconic classic Holding Out For a Hero for Netflix's reboot of He-Man… Masters Of The Universe: Revelation. The spot was nominated for a Clio award, the highest honor in advertising.
He wrote the original score for Failure To Protect, an award-winning documentary.
He composed music for the Netflix anime Cannon Busters and DreamWorks Animation's Spirit: Riding Free.
He was commissioned by the finance giant SoftBank to write an octet utilizing AI called SoftBank Sinfonia.
He delivered a TEDx talk on the subject of Artificial Intelligence and creativity, and has guest lectured at UCLA, USC and Belmont.
He's the composer for Wu-Tang In Space, a collaboration between Impossible Foods and the Wu-Tang Clan.
Lucas has served as Editor-At-Large for Thrive Global's music section and as Chief Composer at the Melbourne Deep Learning Group at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
In 2017, Lucas scored A Rotten Holiday featuring Disney's Descendants.
He was the orchestra composer and conductor for the Kenzo X H&M fashion show in October 2016.
In 2014 and 2015, he was the musical director of The Lyric Project, a musical presented by ASCAP.
In 2014, he was the executive producer of Score!, an orchestral concert of music for television presented by ASCAP and the Television Academy.
In 2013, he was the composer for The Devotion Project, a series of short films about LGBTQ couples.
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