lionel cohen

Personal Bio

Prolific Los Angeles-based composer lionel Cohen has been insatiably producing music for over thirty years. He has produced countless indie artists, has commercially released over 200 albums of his original music, and has scored films for Sony Pictures, Saban Films, Gravitas Ventures, and Vertical Entertainment, among others. His discipline and creativity have garnered him over 450 IMDb credits, millions of plays on Spotify, and tens of millions of views on YouTube. “Quantity is no substitute for quality,” he declares, “But practice does make perfect!”.

lionel has scored numerous films, including “First We Take Brooklyn“, a gangster film starring Harvey Keitel, “Feral State” a swampy crime thriller starring AnnaLynn McCord, “Mob Town“, the true story of the biggest raid in US history, starring David Arquette, and Jennifer Esposito, “Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story“, starring Michael Rapaport, and Ashley Greene, and most recently the family crime drama “I Love Us“, starring Katie Cassidy, Robert Davi and Jackie Cruz. He has also just released his seventh Spaghetti-Western album, his sixth record of Middle-Eastern Fusion music, and is currently producing several LA-based singer/songwriters, as well as finishing up a fourth volume of his very successful “Acoustic Sessions” cover albums.

lionel’s music can be heard in TV shows including American Idol, House, Elementary, Chopped, Surviving the Cut, Kourtney & Kim Take New York, Real Housewives of Miami, Breaking Amish and Amish Mafia, and in countless commercials including How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, The Mentalist, The Price is Right, Hawaii Five-O, Undercover Boss, Survivor, Criminal Minds, The Tonight Show, Friends, Saturday Night Live and The Late Show. His commercial works include Sony PSP, Cadillac, Buick, BMW, Mercedes, Glenfiddich, Carlsberg, Verizon, NASCAR, Adidas, DirectTV, Louis Vuitton, Kohl’s and Macy’s, to name a few.