Rise
(Digital)

Walt Disney Records releases the Rise Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring a stirring score by Ré Olunuga. Rise is based on the triumphant real-life story about the remarkable family that gave the world the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league – Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Laker Kostas Antetokounmpo, and their younger brother Alex.

Walt Disney Records releases the Rise Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring a stirring score by Ré Olunuga. Rise is based on the triumphant real-life story about the remarkable family that gave the world the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league – Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Laker Kostas Antetokounmpo, and their younger brother Alex.

June 24, 2022 exclusively on Disney+.

About the composer Ré Olunuga

Ré Olunuga is a Nigerian composer of multi-genre orchestral and experimental music. With a unique approach to instrumentation that imbues his music with an unmistakable sense of engagement and tactility, Ré’s work spans across Film & TV soundtracks to ambitious art pieces and even a dalliance with the mainstream through collaborations with commercial recording artists.

Ré’s is a varied career to date but above all he considers himself to be a storyteller, with music being the medium he is most strongly drawn to. His influences tend to be non-musical, like memories of how it felt to be a child wandering around his grandmother’s house in Yaba or the mind-expanding sensation of reading the works of Philp K. Dick and Octavia Butler.

His newly released rich and complex score for the Disney film Rise is his interpretation of classic orchestral Disney film music with the inclusion of traditional African phraseology, rhythms and instruments. Like all his work, Rise finds Ré exploring the kind of complex emotions that can’t be put into words but feel stirring and true.


As well as RISE, Ré completed in Spring 2022 the intimate score to the feature film GIRL, for BBC Film in the UK.

Despite now spending a large amount of his time between London and Los Angeles, Ré still considers Lagos as the geographical heart of all his endeavors. He is founder and artistic director of The Lagos Philharmonic and is currently working on the development of the first symphonic concert hall in the city.

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Walt Disney Records presents the soundtrack for the Disney+ movie Rise. The album contains the music composed by the Nigerian composer Ré Olunuga and two original songs performed by Francis and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Walt Disney Records presents the soundtrack for the Disney+ movie Rise. The album contains the music composed by the Nigerian composer Ré Olunuga and two original songs performed by Francis and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

The soundtrack is available digitally since June 24, 2022 on digital music services.

Rise is directed by Akin Omotoso, written by Arash Amel with Uche Agada, Ral Agada, Jaden Osimuwa, Elijah Sholanke, Dayo Okeniyi, Yetide Badaki, Manish Dayal and Taylor Nichols.

Audiences have never seen a story like that of the Antetokounmpos. After emigrating from Nigeria to Greece, Charles and Vera Antetokounmpo (Dayo Okeniyi and Yetide Badaki, respectively) struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation.

With their oldest son still in Nigeria with relatives, the couple were desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but found themselves undermined by a system that blocked them at every turn. When they weren’t selling items to tourists on the streets of Athens with the rest of the family, the brothers-- Giannis (Uche Agada) and Thanasis (Ral Agada)--would play basketball with a local youth team.

Latecomers to the sport, they discovered their great abilities on the basketball court and worked hard to become world class athletes, along with brother, Kostas (Jaden Osimuwa).
With the help of an agent, Giannis entered the NBA Draft in 2013 in a long shot prospect that would change not only his life but the life of his entire family.

And last season, Giannis and Thanasis helped bring the Milwaukee Bucks their first championship ring in 50 years, while Kostas played for the previous season champs, the Los Angeles Lakers. “Rise” stars Dayo Okeniyi, Yetide Badaki, Manish Dayal, Taylor Nichols, introducing Ral Agada and introducing Uche Agada.

The film was directed by Akin Omotoso (“Vaya”), written by Arash Amel (“A Private War”) and produced by Bernie Goldmann (“300”). Giannis Antetokounmpo and Douglas S. Jones served as the executive producers.

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