About

Luis Guerra is a Los Angeles-based music composer, arranger, and producer. He has worked extensively as a film composer and is an award-winning podcast composer. His credits include writing theme music for popular TV shows such as Ring City, film scores including Bernard and Huey and 18 ½, and podcasts such as Freakonomics Radio, Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, Happy Forgetting, and No Stupid Questions. Currently, he is composing music for the Breathe Into Life podcast—stay tuned for more. 

Luis found creativity through music at the young age of 4 when he started playing drums. At 17, he moved to Austin, Texas to pursue music. As an instrumentalist, he worked with musical luminaries including Patty Griffin, Mose Alison, Money Mark, and Tosca Tango. As a composer, he has written music for Malcolm Gladwell, Freakonomics, Apple, and Ring City. He has scored films, including the indie favorite “18½” and “Bernard and Huey.” His work has taken him into remote parts of the Amazon, where he recorded Shipibo singer Herlinda Flores, featured in the documentary The Woven Songs of the Amazon. He wrote music for Britt Marling’s version of the Disney Classic, “The Little Mermaid” which starred academy award winner Jodie Foster and Dax Shepherd.

Luis brings the same discipline and adaptability from the studio into everything he builds. Facing real challenges over the years taught him the value of mindfulness, structure, and staying grounded under pressure, lessons that show up as much in how he leads creative projects as in how he composes.He approaches setbacks the same way he approaches a score, with patience, precision, and the belief that the work always finds its shape.