# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/germaine-franco
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:23:44.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/germaine-franco"
name: "Germaine Franco"
slug: "germaine-franco"
description: "Germaine Franco is an American film composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger, record producer, and percussionist. She is a Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer. Her extensive resume, coupled with her curiosity, and inventiveness, has made her a trailblazer. Franco was the first Latina to win a Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media with her score for Encanto (2021), and the first to receive the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature with Coco in 2018. In addition, Encanto received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, an SCL Award for Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film, an Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature, a Billboard Music Award, and a World Soundtrack Awards nomination for Film Composer of the Year in 2022. She is also the first Latina to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, as well as the first to join the music branch of the Academy. She recently completed work on the Netflix smash hit The Mother directed by Niki Caro. The film is one of Netflix's most successful releases to date, going No.1 in 82 countries. She recently won a grammy"
tagline: "American film composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Germaine_franco_2022_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1987-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.78380533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1184901/"
    handle:    "nm1184901"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "5NTEjLv3GEX1Vx0ITx9Pxe"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.germainefranco.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Germaine Franco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Franco"
    title: "Germaine Franco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Franco"
    title: "Germaine Franco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Franco"
    title: "Germaine Franco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95"
    title: "ג'רמיין פרנקו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Franco"
    title: "Germaine Franco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Franco"
    title: "Germaine Franco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Franco"
    title: "Germaine Franco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "جرمین فرانکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Germaine_Franco"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b85ab6cb-4b6d-41f7-b367-3f15131c732b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62732315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Germaine Franco"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump