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Lisle Moore composed the music for the 2010 soccer World Cup competition held in South Africa. He is a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Moore comes from a musical family. His grandfather conducts for the Luxemburg Symphony in Europe, and his father for the symphony in Missouri, where Moore grew up. Moore started piano when he was 5 years old and went on to play percussion. When he watched movies it was always the music he was drawn to. He told his parents at an early age that he wanted to be a composer. [1]

Moore's conversion to the Mormon Church is an interesting story. A young man from Alpine, Utah, was arrested for speeding in Fulton, Missouri, Moore's hometown. Moore's father was a bail bondsman, bailed out the young man, and brought him home. The young man's name was Rocco de Villiers, and he was working on a movie. "We got to talking and I told him I liked to compose music. I was going to school at the Berklee School of Music in Michigan and he decided to move up there so we could collaborate on the music for the movie. We became roommates and he introduced me to the LDS Church which I joined. He convinced me to come out to Utah and that is where I met my wife, Tammie. The rest is history." [2]

Luckily, Moore has the technical expertise to record his own music. Working from a basement full of the latest technology, he is building a studio adjacent to his home in Highland, Utah. He works a nine-to-five workday. Moore's most recent project (he has created music for movie trailers like Spiderman, and it's his music behind the "Judge Judy" TV show and the ABC and KSL news programs) has been to compose the music for the World Cup.

The scale of the World Cup project was huge, incorporating musicians from all over the world. Moore recorded with members of the Utah Symphony and then flew to New York where he hired 16 singers from the cast of Lion King to do the choir part. Although he had done the music for the 2006 World Cup held in Germany, that project was more traditional, so did not incorporate the ethnic influences and unique African percussion rhythms Moore desired for the African games. The music for the 2010 World Cup has generated a lot of interest and may show up on iTunes after the games conclude.