Tommy Tallarico
From Sega Retro
Tommy Tallarico is a music composer who composed some music tracks for Sonic and the Black Knight. Through his career in the industry he has composed the soundtracks to several successful games such as the Earthworm Jim series, Messiah, MDK, Wild 9, Cool Spot, Spot Goes to Hollywood, RoboCop versus The Terminator, Maximo, Pac-Man World, Prince of Persia, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
He founded Tommy Tallarico Studios in 1994 and the Game Audio Network Guild , of which he is also the president, in 2002. He wrote, co-hosted, and co-produced The Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run and co-hosted alongside Victor Lucas in both television programs until he left to focus on Video Games Live.
He and Victor Lucas also act as video game correspondents for HypaSpace Weekly. Tallarico is the cousin of Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith.