Germaine Franco is an American film composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger, record producer, and percussionist.

Franco was the first Latina to win a Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media with her score for Encanto (2021),[1] and the first to receive the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature with Coco in 2018.

[2] She recently completed work on the Netflix smash hit The Mother directed by Niki Caro.

[4] Other film and television scores Franco has contributed to include Coco (2017), Tag (2018), Dope (2015), Vida (2018), Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019), and Little (2019).

[8] She attended the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where she studied percussion and composition, earning a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a master's in 1987.