Alec Puro is an award winning Film and Television composer, studio musician and entrepreneur. He has created music for over forty-five films, thousands of hours of television programming and countless advertisements. Among other projects, Puro is best known for scoring the Netflix zombie thriller Black Summer, the hit Freeform drama The Fosters, the DreamWorks/Hulu animated series The Mighty Ones and his collaboration with Linkin Park scoring the film MALL.

He began his career playing drums in studio sessions with the likes of Jackson Browne, Cher and Robby Krieger of The Doors. In 1996, Puro launched the band Deadsy. Their first album debuted at #99 on the Billboard Top 200 and the band embarked upon a decade of world tours opening for bands such as Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots, playing to audiences at historic venues like Madison Square Garden.

During his time with Deadsy, Puro began composing and licensing his music to television shows such as Chicago Hope and NYPD Blue. Puro’s first significant success as a composer came from the 2007 Sundance hit film The Good Night. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Penelope Cruz, the film and its score received widespread praise from Steven Spielberg and Variety Magazine. Puro returned to Sundance in 2011 with two feature films; The Art of Getting By starring Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts, and Higher Ground, the critically acclaimed directorial debut from Academy Award Nominee Vera Farmiga. Puro became a Sundance regular returning again in 2012 for scoring Jonathan Kasdan’s film The First Time. Since 2007, Puro has scored numerous films that have hit the festival circuit from SXSW to Cannes to the Tribeca Film Festival where his film Like Water won the Best New Director award in 2011 and his film Pimp executive produced by Lee Daniels premiered in April 2018.

To support his creative endeavors, Puro founded Gramoscope Music, a full service music production company with an extensive and diverse music catalog for licensing in film and TV. Some notable projects they have created music for include 100 Foot Wave, American Horror Story, Botched, Wicked Tuna, Hell’s Kitchen, Alone, Vanderpump Rules, The Real Housewives of OC, New Jersey and Beverly Hills, NBA 2K and The First 48 to name a few.