Robert D. Hanna has been a sound designer, composer, and producer for more than 30 years.  He was signed on as a composer and producer for the Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) in 1995. To this day, UMPG annually generates hundreds of placements for his songs in film and television.

At Dreamworks SKG, Robert setup AVID and Final Cut Pro editing bays, trained editors how to perform advanced functions in sound design and video editing and developed a wide array of animation technologies. From years of experience, he has become an expert film and video editor on Avid, Final Cut Pro,  Adobe Premiere, and DaVinci Resolve, integrating his skills with Pro Tools and Logic Audio to achive the best in visual and sound. Robert is quite at home in the recording studio.

Robert's music production and sound design ventures were naturally compatible with the animation production skills he obtained at DreamWorks, and so he branched out into producing animated feature films of his own.  There was synergy in creating the animated family films, producing the music, sound effects, voice over recordings and editing it all together.  Robert was contracted to produce and direct “Life's a Jungle”, a 3D animated family film that was released worldwide by eOne Entertainment in 2012. It is a follow up to his 2009 animated feature film “The Prodigy”, another successful production for the worldwide distributor, which is now part of Lionsgate Studios. 

For years, Robert D. Hanna has owned Prevalent Music Publishing BMI and MacroCosmic Music Publishing, ASCAP. Through UMPG, his musical compositions have been placed in the following feature films: Stealing Harvard, Scary Movie 2, Bedazzled, Next Friday, Drive Me Crazy, Unconditional Love, Monster and on the following TV shows: CSI, Frasier, ER, West Wing, Boomtown, Las Vegas, Law & Order, The Agency, ED, MD's, NYPD Blue, The Tonight Show, Push Nevada, Still Standing, Yes Dear, 20/20, Survivor, The District, King Of Queens, Jack & Jill, Third Watch, Secret Agent Man, Sabrina, Profiler, The Cosby Show, Arli$$, Sex In The City, Oz, Promised Land and many more. MTV has used dozens of Robert's  recordings in a majority of their programming, on shows : The Osbournes, Punk'd, Room Raiders, Wanna Come In, Pimp My Ride, and Undressed.  Robert also had the honor to score music in "The Pursuit Of Happiness", a film by the great director, Robert Zemeckis of 'Forrest Gump' fame.

In the 80's and 90's, Robert has worked on recordings for Jody Watley, Andre Cymone of Prince's band, Mary Jane Girls, Teena Marie, Billy Preston, The Dazz Band, Parliament-Funkadelic and Billy Idol. Subsequently, as songwriter and lead singer of my own band, Robert performed live on Natalie Cole's National TV show for 30 million viewers, where he had the honor to perform alongside Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, After Seven, Patti Labelle, and Whitney Houston. 

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