Lucas Cantor Santiago is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author.
He finished Schubert's Unfinished Symphony with Artificial Intelligence, the 'completed' symphony is regularly performed around the world.
He scored the teases (the piece leading into the kickoff) to Super Bowl LVII featuring Bradley Cooper and Super Bowl LIX featuring Brad Pitt.
Lucas co-produced Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" on the Hunger Games: Catching Fire Soundtrack. He co-wrote the theme music for Major League Soccer on Fox, Breakfast Ball on FS1 and The Facility on FS1.
He has worked in NBC's music department for the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London, Sochi, Rio, PyeongChang, Tokyo, and Paris. He won two Emmys for the Olympics (2008 and 2012).
In addition to his music career, Lucas is a founder and General Partner at Mindset Music, a venture capital firm that invests in music technology.
Lucas's first book, Unfinished, which tells the story of music and technology's co-evolution over the past 60,000 years, will be released by Bloomsbury in Fall 2025.
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