AN INTRODUCTION
Ever since meeting in Israel during the 2016 Reality Music conference, Roahn Hylton & Jacob Yoffee have been working together on projects for record labels, film, television & advertising. 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 which was produced by Jay-Z & Meek Mill.
They created a song-heavy pop-score for YouTube’s 'Sherwood'; a dystopic animated sci-fi series that re-imagines the Robin Hood tale. And, drawing on their jazz & hip-hop backgrounds they created the soundtrack for Lebron James’ ‘Best Shot’. Their score, which featured both songs & instrumental pieces was released by Warner Bros on the Water Tower Music label.
Prior to that they worked with Janelle Monae on the 2017 G.A.P. campaign, ‘Grind Now, Shine Later’ about the story of Chris Boucher for the NBA as well as several independent film productions.
Individually they’ve been working for many years in their respective fields:
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 Arianna 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 is currently the Resident Composer for the American Studio Orchestra and just recently completed scoring Disney’s #1 series ‘Andi Mack’ from the creator of Lizzie McGuire. Priot to that he scored the global release of ‘Ingress : The Animation’ for Netflix as well as the upcoming 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 and has written custom music for the trailer campaigns of Disney’s Aladdin, Star Wars : The Force Awakens, Star Wars : The Last Jedi, Rogue One : A Star Wars Story, Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales, Disney’s The Jungle Book & Ready Player One.