Born in Cainta, Rizal, a suburban enclave outside of Manila, Danmichael Reyes showed early interest in music/audio. Realizing that moving faders up and down on his father’s stereo system EQ changed the tonal quality of what he was hearing, a young DMR was hooked with the ability to manipulate sound. Moves to Saudi Arabia and Singapore shortly followed before his family ultimately settled in Torrance, CA, a suburban enclave outside of Los Angeles.

DMR holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in jazz piano from The New School and California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) respectively. Career highlights include Def Jam, General Mills, Princess Cruises, Revive/Blue Note Records, Lincoln Center, Tastemade, Magic The Gathering, as well as a host of independently funded projects (read as: he mostly does the last thing on this list and will always do the last thing on this list bc Derrida’s ultimate hospitality, “para sa kapwa,” and the idea that “The absolute highest fidelity in music/audio services should be available to everyone” are all important tenets to live by).

Recently, Reyes pivoted to film scoring and has served as the composer for Good Bad Luck, a crime-comedy/drama directed by Vadym Medvediuk, and For The Love of Basketball directed by Anthony Vasquez.

Danmichael currently lives in East Hollywood with his wife, Elymie, and their silver tabby, Arugula The Disco Cat (affectionately known to them as Boogie Rugies). When not at home, he is most likely engineering, producing, piano/keyboard-ing, mixing, and occasionally assisting (read as: “saving”) a one Nels Jensen at The Pie Studios. He’s also extremely stoked that he no longer has to write about himself in third person following this ultimate full-stop.