Roahn Hylton & Jacob Yoffee

Composers of ABC’s The Wonder Years

Source: Priscilla Jimenez

Ever since meeting in Israel during the 2016 Reality Music conference, Roahn Hylton & Jacob Yoffee have collaborated on projects for record labels, film, television, and advertising. Currently, they are scoring ‘The Wonder Years’ on ABC for producers Saladin K. Patterson, Fred Savage, and Lee Daniels and the upcoming HBO Max docu-series about Nicki Minaj.

Prior to that, they scored Robert Downey Jr.’s ‘Age of A.I.’ series, Kevin Hart’s ‘Don’t F**k This Up’ for Netflix, and Amazon’s highly acclaimed 'Free Meek' series, produced by Jay-Z & Meek Mill.

Often fusing pop, hip-hop, and film score, they’ve created soundtracks for several music-driven projects such as the upcoming Showtime documentary ‘The Show’ about The Weeknd’s Pepsi Halftime Show for the 2020 Superbowl and their song-heavy pop-score for YouTube’s 'Sherwood'; a dystopic animated sci-fi series that reimagines the Robin Hood tale.

Their first episodic collaboration drew on jazz & hip-hop for Lebron James’ ‘Best Shot.’ Their score, which featured both songs & instrumental pieces was released by Warner Bros on the Water Tower Music label.

In the advertising & branding world, they’ve worked on campaigns for the G.A.P., the North Face, and others. Janelle Monae was a featured artist on their 2017 G.A.P. campaign, and they recently produced the soundtrack for 50 Cent’s Power Universe official logo. Individually they’ve been working for many years in their respective fields:

Roahn Hylton

Roahn Hylton (First Born) was a co-producer on Nicki Minajʼs first Billboard Top 5 single “Super Bass.” In addition to the song being a platinum hit in the U.S., “Super Bass” spent several weeks inside the top 20 and is Minajʼs highest-charting solo single to date. He also produced “Gun Shot” for Nicki Minaj on her Platinum Album “Roman Reloaded,” which ranked #1 on the Billboard 200. He produced “Honeymoon Avenue” for Ariana Grande on her RIAA Gold Certified album "Yours Truly,” also peaking at #1 on Billboard top 200. Then he produced "Rick James" and "No Complications" for Keyshia Cole on her 6th studio album, which eventually become the #1 RnB album in the country, making it his fourth number 1 album in 4 years.

Jacob Yoffee

Jacob Yoffee is currently the Resident Composer for the American Studio Orchestra and has written custom music for the trailer campaigns of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Disney’s The Jungle Book, Aladdin, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and Ready Player One. He recently completed scoring Disney’s #1 series ‘Andi Mack’ from the creator of Lizzie McGuire as well as the Anime series ‘Ingress: The Animation’ for Netflix and the official re-release of Nintendo’s Tetris Video Game. He has scored over twenty-five feature films including Pawn, an action-thriller starring Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta & Michael Chiklis, and A Resurrection, starring Mischa Barton and the late-great Michael Clarke Duncan. In 2016, he was awarded an ASCAP Screen Music Award for his work on ‘Finding Carter,’ a one-hour drama on MTV.

Watch the trailer for The Wonder Years.

This episode of The Pop Disciple Podcast is hosted by Paul Goldowitz.

Production, Editing, Mixing, Mastering | Paul Goldowitz
Select Cues and Songs Throughout Episode | Roahn Hylton, Jacob Yoffee
The Pop Disciple Podcast Theme and Outro Music | Paul Goldowitz

Special thanks to Roahn Hylton, Jacob Yoffee, and White Bear PR.