Steven Vincent
Steven Vincent is vice president, Music and Soundtracks, Disney Channel, a role he was promoted to in November 2007. He is responsible for supervising the music used in original programming for kids and tweens seen on Disney Channel and Disney XD. His job duties also extend to programming on Freeform which, like Disney Channel and Disney XD, is part of Disney|ABC Television Group.
Vincent advises on and collaborates with TV series and TV movie producers in creating original music, as well as licensed songs. He works with recording artists, lyricists and composers in conjunction with Disney Publishing, Walt Disney Records, Hollywood Records and Radio Disney.
He shepherded the creative team’s development of soundtrack and music that exceeded sales of 50 million units including the quadruple-platinum “High School Musical” (the No. 1-selling soundtrack of 2006, the first TV movie soundtrack to reach No.1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart with nine songs) and “High School Musical 2” (debuted at No.1 on the Billboard charts and was the best-selling album in 2007) as well as the soundtrack to the Disney motion picture “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.”
His other projects include “Descendants” for 2015, “Teen Beach Movie” and its 2015 sequel “Teen Beach 2,” “Camp Rock” (spent 10 weeks in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, certified platinum in the U.S. and eight other countries and gold in 12 countries) and its multiple-platinum sequel) and “The Cheetah Girls” trilogy, plus “Lemonade Mouth” which soared to No.4 on the Billboard 200 and No.1 on its soundtrack chart.
On the series side, the Disney Channel comedy “Hannah Montana” spawned two No.1 triple-platinum albums – “Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus” and “Hannah Montana.” The third soundtrack, “Hannah Montana 3,” debuted at No.2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
Prior to his current role, he was director, Production, and executive in charge of Music, Disney Channel. He joined the company in 1991. He has also worked as a film composer, arranger, producer, conductor and musician.
In 2006, Vincent’s extensive resume of creative and technical credits qualified him to become a recording voting member of the Grammy Awards. In 2008, he was elected governor of the Los Angeles Chapter of The Recording Academy and served two terms. In 2014, he was admitted as a voting member to the Television Academy’s Production Executive branch.
Vincent has a degree in music composition from UCLA, and plays the piano and trombone. He studied film scoring with Walter Scharf and David Raskin through scholarships from BMI and ASCAP.