Tommy Tallarico is an American video game music composer and musician from Springfield, Massachusetts. He enters the video game industry in 1991 and works on more than 250 games, with credits including the Earthworm Jim series, Disney's Aladdin, MDK, Wild 9, Maximo and Advent Rising.
He is best known as the co-creator, executive producer and host of Video Games Live, a concert series based around game music. Tallarico wins more than 25 industry awards for video game audio and receives the Ambassador award at the Game Developers Conference in 2009 for his contributions to the industry.
In 1994 he founds Tommy Tallarico Studios, which is also listed as his label, and in 2002 he establishes the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.), where he serves as president. He also sits on the advisory board for the Game Developers Conference, serves as a governor for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS/Grammy), and acts as a nominating peer panel leader for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Tallarico releases Virgin Games: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 in 1994, followed by a second volume in 1997. His music also appears on other official game soundtrack releases. Outside composing, he writes, co-hosts and co-produces The Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run, and co-hosts both programmes with Victor Lucas. He and Lucas also work as video game correspondents for HypaSpace Weekly.
He is the cousin of Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith.




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