Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera said he had to answer the question “what would a biogeneticist sound like?” when pilot director Sarah Adina Smith asked him to write the series’ music.

Lessons in Chemistry is the story of biogeneticist cooking show host Elizabeth Zott, a character explored musically by composer Carlos Rafael Rivera.

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Carlos Rafael Rivera remembers the exact moment music found him. “The moment I heard Randy Rhoads’ guitar solo on ‘Revelation (Mother Earth)’ by Ozzy Osbourne… it was like a big bang in my head,” he ...

University of Miami professor Carlos Rafael Rivera won the Emmy Award for his work in the 2020 hit Netflix series "The Queen’s Gambit." ...

When Carlos Rafael Rivera got the call that he would be writing the music for “The Queen’s Gambit,” he immediately did two things: He read the Walter Tevis novel, and he took up chess.

As Rivera gets ready to hit the road with his ’Tour A Todas Partes,’ here are 20 of his best songs, featuring Becky G, Maluma, and more.