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Currently, Wendell Hanes is 84 years, 3 months and 17 days old. Wendell Hanes will celebrate 85rd birthday on a Tuesday 5th of August 2025. Below we countdown to Wendell Hanes upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Wendell Hanes |
| Occupation | Music Department |
| Age | 84 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 5, 1940 () |
| Birthday | August 5 |
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Wendell Hanes’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Wendell Hanes was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Wendell Hanes is a MULTI- AWARD-WINNING TV and FILM Composer, and owner of Volition Sound in New York City. He scored Oscar Nominated Producer/director Lisa Cortes and Farah X's 6 time Award-Winning documentary "THE REMIX: HIP HOP X FASHION.
" Hanes is the Music Composer and Music Supervisor on the AWARD-WINNING NETFLIX SITCOM "FAMILY REUNION." In 2018 Hanes scored Oscar directors James Cameron and Louie Psihoyos' NETFLIX film "THE GAME CHANGERS.
Hanes also scored the NETFLIX Feature film release "FRESHMEN YEAR" which Hanes and his company VOLITION were nominated for BEST MUSIC SCORE. Known in the Television arena for having produced and arranged ESPN'S flagship musical themes for SPORTSCENTER, NFL COUNTDOWN, COLLEGE GAMEDAY, THE NBA, and HIGH NOON, Hanes and his company branded the sound for high profile networks around the globe.
Hanes has won every major award in Advertising including CLIOS, CANNES LIONS, EFFIES, ADDY'S, LONDON INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, ANDY'S, ONE SHOWS, and GOLDEN AWARD of MONTREAUX'S. With over 2,000 commercials, 35 Films scored and another 30 music supervised, Hanes has become a trailblazer when it comes to composing to picture.
His company VOLITION SOUND is responsible for having created the unique sound for every major brand and network from McDONALDS to PEPSI to ABC and HBO. Hanes' strong team of VOLITION composers have had major placements in Feature Films Vicki Christina Barcelona and Get Rich or Die Tryin' as well as records on albums for 50 Cent, Jay Z, Mary J Blige, Usher, and Beyonce.
Hanes even brought his classical scoring and sound design talents to the world of HIP HOP by working on projects for rappers LIL WAYNE, DRAKE, FUTURE, NIKKI MINAJ and YO GOTTI. After scoring a wave of documentaries such as , HARRY BENSON: SHOOT FIRST, HILLEMAN: A PERILOUS QUEST TO SAVE THE WORLD'S CHILDREN, and CRAZY ABOUT TIFFANY'S.
Hanes is also a gifted song writer having written and produced over 20 songs for the new NETFLIX sitcom FAILY REUNION and produced singles for 3 Time Grammy Nominated artist RAHEEM DEVAUGHN, MYA, BLACKSHEEP, Q TIP, THE BEATNUTS, and BRAND NUBIAN.
Hanes' versatility is his biggest strength having an ear for creating music in a multitude of genres has helped his company cross all mediums from TV to FILM to ADVERTISING and to RECORDS.
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