# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heitor-pereira
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:41:41.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heitor-pereira"
name: "Heitor Pereira"
slug: "heitor-pereira"
description: "Heitor Teixeira Pereira, or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer. In his career, Pereira has recorded with the band Simply Red and several famous musicians, such as Elton John, Rod Stewart, k.d. lang, Milton Nascimento, and Jack Johnson; and currently works as a film score composer, as well as a musician at Hans Zimmer's studio, he is best known for being the composer of the Despicable Me franchise. Although primarily a guitarist, he also provided backing vocals live for the Simply Red song \"Thrill Me\". He also collaborates with film directors Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda, Raja Gosnell, and Cal Brunker."
tagline: "Brazilian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Gire%2C_John_Sponsler_on_scoring_Despicable_Me.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-11-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.6
  momentum:             1.211589113257243
  historical:           11.31894933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/heitorpereira_"
    handle:    "heitorpereira_"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/heitortpereira/"
    handle:    "heitortpereira"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/HeitorTPereira"
    handle:    "HeitorTPereira"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673137/"
    handle:    "nm0673137"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RaHCHhZWBXn460JpMaicz"
    handle:    "2RaHCHhZWBXn460JpMaicz"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.heitorpereira.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Pereira"
    title: "Heitor Pereira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/00a1afe3-79c6-44a5-a666-c77e281ee7fe"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "هيتور بيريرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Pereira"
    title: "Heitor Pereira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Pereira"
    title: "Heitor Pereira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Pereira"
    title: "Heitor Pereira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Pereira"
    title: "Heitor Pereira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Pereira"
    title: "Heitor Pereira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9"
    title: "ヘイター・ペレイラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EC%9D%B4%ED%86%A0%EB%A5%B4_%ED%8E%98%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "에이토르 페레이라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Pereira"
    title: "Heitor Pereira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462109"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59706"
    title: "Heitor Pereira"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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