Robert Lopez was born on February 23,1975 and is an American songwriter for musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for co-writing the songs featured in the Disney computer-animated films Frozen, its sequel Frozen II, and Coco, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
11 Facts About Robert Lopez
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Robert Lopez is one of only eighteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, nicknamed by Philip Michael Thomas in 1984 as the "EGOT".
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Robert Lopez additionally holds the distinctions of being the youngest person to win an EGOT, and winning the awards across the shortest period of time: he won all four in the span of ten years and completed the set at the age of 39.
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Robert Lopez is the only person to have won all four awards more than once, having won two Oscars, three Tonys, three Grammys, and four Emmys.
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Robert Lopez was born in Manhattan, to Katherine and Frank Lopez.
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Robert Lopez is partly of Filipino descent through his father ; his paternal grandfather was Filipino, and his paternal grandmother was of half Filipino and half Scottish-American descent.
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Robert Lopez's father was director of publications for NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Robert Lopez went to Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School, and then on to Yale University where he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
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In 2005, Lopez began working on a new musical project with his musical partner Jeff Marx, and with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park, a series which, in 2003, Lopez had mentioned as a partial inspiration for Avenue Q The Book of Mormon premiered on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 24,2011, following previews from February 24.
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In early 2006, Robert Lopez collaborated with his brother, Billy, on several episodes of the Nickelodeon series Wonder Pets, for which they shared a Daytime Emmy award with the series' other composers and music director, Jeffrey Lesser, in 2008.
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Robert Lopez composed a song for The Simpsons episode "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" titled "Enjoy It While You Can" which aired on April 29,2012.