David Vanacore

David Vanacore is an American television music composer. Dubbed by television music industry insiders as 'The King of Reality', David Vanacore is the composer behind many reality television series, such as Survivor, The Apprentice, Big Brother, Ink Master, American Chopper, Dirty Jobs, Hell's Kitchen, Wipeout, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader and Whale Wars.

Vanacore began studying piano at the age of seven. Prior to his career as a composer, he worked as a studio session pianist/keyboardist and toured with Cher, among other artists. After meeting television composer Mike Post led to an offer as his studio keyboard player, which introduced him to the world of music supervision for television. Vanacore put together a team of composers, editors, musicians, engineers and producers, and founded Vanacore Music, a composing house headquartered in Valencia, California, that produces music for unscripted television series. awards every year since 2005.''