Dan Navarro

Dan Navarro

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Dan Navarro was born on Sep 14, 1952 in USA. Dan Navarro's big-screen debut came with The Emperor's New Groove directed by Mark Dindal in 2000. Dan Navarro is known for Top Gun: Maverick directed by Joseph Kosinski, Tom Cruise stars as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and Val Kilmer as Adm. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky. The upcoming new movie Dan Navarro plays is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse which will be released on Jun 02, 2023.

Dan Navarro was born on September 14, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Daniel Anthony Navarro, to Gabriel Navarro, a publicist and boxing matchmaker in the '40's and early '50's, and, later, a retail merchant, and Josephine Navarro, also a retail merchant alongside her husband. At the age of four, his family relocated to Calexico, CA, where he lived until high school graduation. He attended UCLA, majoring in music, singing with the UCLA Men's Glee Club and playing French Horn in the UCLA Marching and Concert Bands. After finishing college, he embarked on a songwriting career, with cuts by Pat Benatar (the smash hit "We Belong"), written with Eric Lowen, plus songs for The Bangles, Dave Edmunds, Dionne Warwick, The Triplets Dutch superstar Marco Borsato, Japanese girl group Wink, soap star Jacob Young and many more. His acoustic duo Lowen & Navarro recorded 14 albums between 1990 and 2008. In 1988, he began singing in Spanish language jingles, which broadened over time to vocals and character voices in commercials, film and television. His singing and voice credits include Encanto (2021), Coco (2017), Pirates of the Caribbean 5 (2016), The Book of Life (2014), The Lorax (2009), Happy Feet (2006), Family Guy, American Dad, Pantheon and The Boys: Diabolical His songs have appeared in Mare of Easttown, Deadpool 2, Pitch Perfect 2, Blue Valentine, One Tree Hill and The Office. He continues to record and tour solo after the retirement and subsequent death of Eric Lowen due to ALS. He's released two solo album "Shed My Skin" (2018) and Horizon Line (2022), both NACC Folk Top Ten albums. He also serves on the National Board of SAG-AFTRA, and has served on the boards of Folk Alliance International, The Recording Academy's LA Chapter, Levitt Pavilions LA and Pasadena, and as an Advisory Trustee to the ALS Association's Golden West Chapter. He thinks sleep is for babies and is a known abuser of acoustic guitars.

  • Birthday

    Sep 14, 1952
  • Place of Birth

    Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Also known

    Daniel Anthony Navarro, Daniel Navarro, Daniel A. Navarro

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