Biography

Josh Klein is a multi-faceted composer for television, film, and production music. He got his start when he moved to Los Angeles in 2005 and began working with Emmy nominee James S. Levine at Remote Control Productions, Hans Zimmer’s composing studios, where he remained a resident composer until 2018.  Over the course of his career, Josh has written music for many hit television series, including TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles, The Closer, and Major Crimes, FX’s Nip/Tuck and Damages, USA Network’s Royal Pains, and CBS’ NCIS LA. He received two ASCAP awards for the top cable series, Rizzoli & Isles, in 2015 and 2016.

For the last 12 years, Josh has composed for and been instrumental in managing 100+ albums for Sony/Extreme Music’s “Law & Audio” catalogue, a unique music library brand tailored towards crime drama programming that has since grown to feature other genres as well. His work has been placed in over 9500 episodes of TV, advertisements, and other media.

Most recently, Josh created The Sophistikids, a new brand of original children’s content featuring upbeat songs and animated music videos aimed at entertaining children, coupled with savvy and comedic adult lyrics and concepts aimed at entertaining adults.