Tee Lopes

Tiago Lopes , known professionally as Tee Lopes, is a Portuguese American video game composer. He is best known for his contributions to the Sonic the Hedgehog series, starting with Sonic Mania.

Early life Lopes was born in Coimbra, Portugal. In 2009, he uploaded his first Sonic the Hedgehog remix to YouTube, which led to his career as a video game composer. He has continued to upload remixes, original tracks, and other personal works.

Career Lopes began as a hobbyist musician working on indie games and fan games. After becoming known for his Sonic the Hedgehog remixes on YouTube, he went on to compose an HD fan port of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. After its completion, several of its developers, including Lopes, created PagodaWest Games, an indie game developer.

In 2017, Lopes and the developers of PagodaWest Games partnered with Sega to develop Sonic Mania, a game that notably featured other well-known Sonic fan creators such as Christian Whitehead and Headcannon. He was awarded IGN's People's Choice Vote for Best Original Music for Sonic Mania.

After Mania, Lopes became a freelance composer and continued to compose for video games such as Sonic Superstars, Streets of Rage 4, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. On the Twitch charity fundraiser Indieland 2023, it was confirmed that Lopes was composing the soundtrack to the game Penny's Big Breakaway. Additionally, he has composed for several web series, such as Sonic Mania Adventures, SomecallmeJohnny, and Scott the Woz.

In 2026, Lopes served as lead composer for Denshattack!, working with additional core and guest composers and performers.

Works Video games Year Title Notes 2013 Major Magnet Music 2017 Sonic Mania Music 2018 Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom Opening theme 2019 Team Sonic Racing Music with several others League of Legends "Arcade 2019: Ultracombo" Banana Kong Blast Music and visual effects 2021 Mighty Fight Federation Music with several others Streets of Rage 4 Mr. X Nightmare downloadable content 2022 Sonic Origins Animated cutscenes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Music Banana Kong 2 Music Sonic Frontiers Divergence prologue animation score 2023 Sonic Superstars Music with several others Sonic Dream Team Animated intro music 2024 Penny's Big Breakaway Music Berserk Boy Music Contra: Operation Galuga "Snow & Mechanica" Tomba! Special Edition Credits theme arrangement G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra Music with several others Metal Slug Tactics Music 2025 Friday Night Funkin' "Senpai (Pico Mix)" Shinobi: Art of Vengeance Music with Yuzo Koshiro Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds "Market Street" Marvel Cosmic Invasion Music 2026 Denshattack! Lead composer; music with several others

Web series Year Title Notes 2017 Sonic Mania Adventures Lead composer 2018 SomecallmeJohnny Guest composer 2020 Scott the Woz (season 4) "Credits Theme" 2022 Caddicarus Guest composer 2023 Scott the Woz (season 6) "Staff Roll"