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Tracey & Vance Marino
Composers ♦ Songwriters ♦ ​Producers
Making Marketable Music
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"Because somebody has to write this happy stuff."
- Tracey & Vance Marino

Recent National Commercial Placements
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Recent National TV Placement on
SNL (Saturday Night Live) "Pug Wigs" Dog Infomercial Skit
Background music: "Beautiful Way" and "When We Get Together"
​from the Organic Sweets, vol. 1, collection, APM/Sonoton

TV Reality Show "Forged In Fire"
Tracey & Vance's Rock cue "Big And Bad" is heard on every episode of "Forged In Fire" as
​the contestants are being introduced (around :40)

Indie Folk Pop Collection for APM / Sonoton
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In 2017, Tracey & Vance signed their upbeat, acoustic Indie Folk Pop collaboration song project, Organic Sweets, to Sonoton / APM (Universal / Sony), in the Mark-Award-winning Surefire Artists Collection. Since Organic Sweets was released, the songs have been placed several times daily in TV shows around the world, including the Hallmark Channel, SNL, and on the popular long-running CBeebies show on the BBC. Organic Sweets, Vol. 2, will be available in mid-2019.
Organic Sweets is a collection with up-and-coming Singer-Songwriters and Producers, co-written and executive produced by Tracey & Vance Marino with Trevor Alan Paul, Heather Ramsey, Patricia Bahia, Savannah Philyaw, Tolan Shaw, Jacqueline Van Bierk, Juliet Lyons, Stacy Kim Johnston, Catharine Wood, Ian McCartor, Nitanee Paris Lawson, Steve Collom, Jessica Collom, Paula McMath, Mark Dorflinger, Katie Ekin, and Jason Paras​.

ADDITIONAL NOTABLE PLACEMENTS

Feature film placements include: a circus song Carnival Lights in the Disney Touchstone Pictures film "The Last Song" starring Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear. Their mariachi song No Snow In Mexico was in the Sundance feature film "Goats" starring David Duchovny, Keri Russell, Vera Farmiga, "Modern Family" star Ty Burrell, and "Fifty Shades of Grey" star Dakota Johnson. The Marino's also have placements in dozens of documentaries, indie films, and trailers.

TV placements include: SNL (Saturday Night Live) skit "Pug Wigs"; NBC's Emmy-winning show, The Voice (multiple placements); ABC's Happy Endings; FOX's New Girl; NBC's The Tonight Show; Last Call with Carson Daly; Access Hollywood; Bates Motel on A&E; the award-winning Oprah's Lifeclass on the OWN channel; the popular Pawn Stars on the History Channel; MTV's award-winning shows Made and Catfish: The TV Show. Their song "Kiss Goodbye," co-written with Singer-Songwriter Sierra West, has been placed in several episodes of Bravo's Southern Charm. Since the show began, their rock song "Big & Bad" is heard on every episode of the popular History Channel show "Forged In Fire" as the contestants are being announced. 

Composers for TV Daytime Talk Shows including: The Marino's custom-composed and placed hundreds of upbeat, positive custom cues in the Emmy Award-winning shows The Dr. Oz Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Nate Berkus Show, The Steve Harvey Show, and many others.

National Commercial placements include: Most recent national commercial placements include Clorox (“Live A Little,” partnered with Disney and running continuously for over two years), Ebates (which ran for two years), Gazelle, LL Bean Holiday (November through December 2018), and Bass Pro Shops & Cabela's Holiday (November through December 2018).

IMDb Credits HERE

Proud Members OF

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GIVING BACK TO THE MUSIC COMMUNITY

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The Marino's were asked to take over the NSAI San Diego Chapter, which they've been doing since the Fall of 2012, and as a result, got them back into writing songs. They host guest publishers, music supervisors, hit songwriters, and music industry pros. NSAI was instrumental in helping the MMA get passed in 2018.
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Since 2009, Tracey and Vance Marino have had the honor of being judges for the San Diego County Fair Singer-Songwriter Contest. The SDC Fair is the largest in the U.S. with 1.5 million visitors annually. Tracey will judge the contest Sun., June 9, 6-9 PM.
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Tracey & Vance co-produced a Legacy Hit Songwriters concert series from 2018 to 2019. Songwriters told stories of how their hits came to be. The four-part series featured JACK TEMPCHIN, STEVE DORFF, MARTY PANZER, ALLAN RICH and JUD FRIEDMAN.

© 2019 Tracey & Vance Marino, SongMaker Productions. All material copyrighted.  All rights reserved.
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