About Eric Whitacre
Eric Edward Whitacre is an American composer, conductor, and speaker best known for his choral music. Whitacre's first album as both composer and conductor on Decca Records, Light & Gold, won a Grammy Award in 2012, and became the No. 1 classical album on the US and UK charts within a week of release. His wife, Hila Plitmann, sang the solo material in the theme, having also invented the language the mermaids were singing in the film, a combination of Latin, Hebrew and, as she says, 'Elvish'.
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