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Swihart attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis first brush with cinema came when a group of students from Emerson College asked his help with their film project. Later he was chosen to be a performer with Blue Man Group, which caused him to move from Boston to Las Vegas. Later Swihart's wife obtained a job in Los Angeles and Swihart moved there with her. In LA he started doing music for independent films. One of these was the movie Napoleon Dynamite.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Napoleon Dynamite film was a hit surprise hit and Swihart was awarded a Golden Satellite Award for best original score. 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