{"id":128909,"date":"2026-01-11T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128909\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:15:07","slug":"guy-moon-nickelodeon-composer-killed-at-63-in-california-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128909\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Moon, Nickelodeon composer, killed at 63 in California crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmy-nominated composer Guy Moon, best known for his decades of work on Nickelodeon, was killed in a car crash in California on Thursday. He was 63.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are overcome with grief to announce the passing of our beloved patriarch, Guy Moon,\u201d Moon\u2019s family wrote on Facebook Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Moon was traveling in Los Angeles County on Thursday morning when he was involved in an accidental traffic collision and died of traumatic injuries, the LA County Medical Examiner\u2019s report stated.<\/a><\/p>\n

Composer Guy Moon appears on the \u201cSpeech Bubble\u201d podcast with Butch Hartman on March 6, 2020. Speech Bubble w\/Butch Hartman\/Youtube<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel singularly blessed to have been able to call him dad and husband,\u201d his family said. \u201cAs we stand together at the base of what seems to be an insurmountable grief, we are emboldened to grieve him with honor and courage with the tools that he equipped us with in his beautiful life.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has left an unmistakable legacy, and will be profoundly missed by us, his family, and countless others whose lives he impacted,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

Moon\u2019s music has been featured on hit kid shows across the Nickelodeon network including \u201cThe Fairly OddParents,\u201d \u201cDanny Phantom,\u201d \u201cBig Time Rush,\u201d and \u201cSpongeBob SquarePants.\u201d<\/p>\n

He composed popular songs, including \u201cBartmania!,\u201d \u201cShiny Teeth,\u201d and the catchy theme song for \u201cDanny Phantom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moon was born in Wisconsin on February 7, 1962, and attended the University of Arizona School of Music before he moved to California.<\/p>\n

Guy Moon with director Albie Hecht at the \u201cRyan\u2019s World The Movie: Titan Universe Adventure\u201d premiere on August 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Guy Moon\/Facebook<\/p>\n

He was nominated for four Emmy awards<\/a> in the Outstanding Music and Lyrics category from 2002 to 2004 as a composer for the Butch Hartman-created show \u201cThe Fairly OddParents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hartman, who was a co-nominee with Guy at the Emmy Awards, was left heartbroken after the composer\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no words yet because there are none adequate enough,\u201d Hartman wrote on his Instagram story on Saturday. \u201cGuy was my friend. My brother. My family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBig Time Rush\u201d star Stephen Kramer Glickman, who played \u201cGustavo Roque,\u201d the on-screen music producer for the boy band, paid tribute to the longtime \u201cNick\u201d composer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is heartbreaking,\u201d the actor wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Moon\u2019s music has been featured on hit kid shows across the Nickelodeon network including \u201cThe Fairly OddParents,\u201d \u201cDanny Phantom,\u201d \u201cBig Time Rush,\u201d and \u201cSpongeBob SquarePants.\u201d SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Moon was nominated for four Emmy awards in the Outstanding Music and Lyrics category from 2002 to 2004 as a composer for the Butch Hartman-created show \u201cThe Fairly OddParents.\u201d ====<\/p>\n

Moon has credits in over 70 works spanning 4 decades and across film, television series, animated series, TV movies, and shorts, according to his website.<\/a><\/p>\n

Moon\u2019s work was shown beyond animated children\u2019s shows. He was credited on movies including \u201cThe Brady Bunch Movie,\u201d and a producer on \u201cThe Black Knight and \u201cDr. Dolittle 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was last credited for composing music for \u201cThe Artist\u201d on the streaming platform \u201cThe Network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moon\u2019s family announced they are planning to hold a celebration of life in Los Angeles on his birthday, February 7 and another in his home state of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmy-nominated composer Guy Moon, best known for his decades of work on Nickelodeon, was killed in a car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,15857,33620,4589,66423,967,48,52,51,47,50,49,18304],"class_list":["post-128909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-car-crashes","tag-composers","tag-deaths","tag-emmy-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nickelodeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}