Madison composer's music played during inauguration Share Updated: 7:16 AM CST Jan 21, 2021 Share Updated: 7:16 AM CST Jan 21, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript 16 WAPT'S KEEGAN FOXX HAS HER STORY. LISTEN CLOSELY TO TH MUSIC PLAYING AS KAMALA HARRIS AND HER HUSBAND ARE INTRODUCED AT THE CAPITOL JUST BEFORE SHE IS SWORN IN AS VICE PRESIDENT. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THE VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES, KAMALA HARRIS AND MR. DOUGLAS EMHOFF THAT MUSIC IS THE CREATION OF THIS WOMAN... JULIE GIROUX. SHE IS A COMPOSER WHO LIVES IN MADISON. MY PUBLISHER TOLD ME ABOUT A MONTH AGO THAT THEY WERE GONNA PLAY IT TODAY. AT FIRST, GIROUX JUST THOUGHT THE BAND WOULD PLAY HER MUSIC AT SOME POINT DURING INAUGURATION DAY. IT WASN'T UNTIL LATER SHE LEARNED IT WOULD BE USED TO INTRODUCE THE FIRST WOMAN TO HOLD THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT. "AND THEN SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT IT WAS THE FIRST TIME A WOMAN'S MUSIC HAD BEEN PLAYED IN AN AMERICAN INAUGURATION. SO IT WAS TWO CEILINGS THAT GOT BROKE TODAY, NOT JUST ONE." GIROUX SAYS SHE APPRECIATES THE VICE PRESIDENT'S HISTORIC MOMENT SHE SAYS WHEN SHE FIRST BEGAN COMPOSING MUSIC WOMEN WERE UNDER-REPRESENTED IN HER FIELD. "YA KNOW, I DON'T CARE WHAT YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATION IS. WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IS SOMETHING THAT LITTLE GIRLS CAN LOOK AT AND SAY, I CAN DO THAT." KEEGAN FOXX JOINS US LIVE TONIGHT. KEEGAN, WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW ABOUT JULIE GIROUX'S BACKGROUND IN MUSIC? SHE MUST BE PRETTY WELL KNOWN, RIGHT? GIROUX IS AN EMMY AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER SHE GRADUATED FROM LSU AND WENT STRAIGHT TO WORK IN LOS ANGELES COMPOSING MUSIC FOR DYNASTY, THE KARATE KID MOVIES, AND THE ROCKY MOVIES. GIROUX SAYS SHE CH