The Moana 2 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is available now. Featuring the music of Grammy® Award winning songwriters Barlow & Bear, Moana 2 marks the return of Billboard Music Award ...

Actor Auli'i Cravalho performed and recorded songs cut from the Moana sequel. However, she confirmed the central theme of the scrapped TV show was retained in the film adaptation. Co-director ...

Moana 2 would have made for a very nice television series – as it was originally meant to be. But as a reskinned theatrical sequel to one of Disney Animation’s biggest hits, it’s a little ...

Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear made history as the youngest composers and only all-woman songwriting team for a Disney ...

When it comes to making a Disney Animation musical, there’s always going to be high pressure for the songwriters in particular, simply because of the sheer number of bangers that presumably made ...

Broadway fans may recognize the songwriting team from their work on the viral Unofficial Bridgerton Musical Album, which won the GRAMMY for Best Musical Theater Album in 2022. The duo took over ...

Disney’s Moana, about the chieftain’s daughter who braves all the perils of the Pacific for her people, was a medium-to-large hit back in 2016. It ranked 11th in that year’s global box ...

Part of the time Los Angeles songwriting duo Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear were working on music for “Moana 2,” Bear was on tour with Beyonce. With Bear playing keyboards in the mononymous ...

LONDON − Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear know how to go beyond. The songwriting duo of Barlow & Bear did just that as the youngest and first all-female songwriting team for a Disney animated film ...

AULI'I CRAVALHO: (As Moana, singing) What lies beyond, under skies I've never seen? Will I lose myself between my home and what's unknown? SHAPIRO: That is from "Moana 2," which made history as ...