

In 2000, Johnson released the autobiography The Rock Says, which was a New York Times bestseller. He starred as Luke Hobbs in the Fast & Furious films, beginning with Fast Five (2011) and has helped it become one of the highest-grossing film franchises. A 10-time world champion in professional wrestling, he was WWE's first superstar of African-American descent. He helped usher in the Attitude Era, an industry boom period in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Part of the Anoa'i family, Johnson's father Rocky and maternal grandfather Peter Maivia were professional wrestlers. He played college football at the University of Miami, and won a national championship in 1991.

In 2019, with the sale of SoundDogs to Sound Ideas, the legacy that SoundDogs has built will continue to grow and prosper well into the future so that customers can continue to have access to the best sound effects and royalty free music available.Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972) is an American actor, businessman, and former professional wrestler. Our customers trust us to help them get their job done so they can focus on what’s most important to them.

When we launched a new version of in 2016, our goals did not change: provide great customer service and immediate delivery of the best in sound effects and royalty free music imaginable. Within 5 years of the launch of the company, industry professionals from all over the world were using SoundDogs to meet their sound effects and production music needs. SoundDogs additional ability to license sound effects and royalty free music on behalf of their partners for commercial products makes SoundDogs the ideal platform for industry professionals on both sides of the transaction. In addition to putting their entire sound effect catalog and production music library online, SoundDogs has partnered with sound recordists, sound designers and music composers from all over the world offering these talented sound professionals a platform to have their sound effects previewed, purchased, downloaded and used by major players in the film, television, and radio industries.

SoundDogs became an early industry influencer and set the stage for other sound effect suppliers to chase them into the digital universe. It was an incredible gamble that involved early collaborations with major sfx producers like ToddAO, Skywalker, Soundelux and SoundStorm and with impressive clients like Apple, Microsoft, Sun, Avid, and Digital River. When the internet was barely available outside university and military circles and when post-production houses were still changing over to digital media, SoundDogs took the leap forward and began the race to offer the best sound fx and background music to the audio industry, specifically with motion picture editors in mind. SoundDogs is a pioneer in providing online sound effects and production music resources.
