Those mischievous Minions will have their Olympic moment after all.
Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate received the final approval he needed for his music on Friday, allowing the Spanish figure skater to perform his short program – set to a medley from the Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment animated comedy – when the men’s competition begins. at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday evening.
Sabate had been performing the fan favorite show all season, thinking he had gotten the proper approval to use four cuts of Minions music through a system called ClicknClear. Last week, Universal studios asked him to provide more details about the music Sabate used and the Minions-inspired outfit he wore.
He was able to quickly get approval for two pieces of music, and Sabate got a third by contacting the artist, a fellow Spaniard, directly. The robbery was the song ‘Freedom’ by American musician and producer Pharrell Williams.
That approval finally came Friday, about two hours before the Olympic figure skating program started the team event.
He even practiced the program, which begins with the characters laughing, during an early session Thursday. The next morning, the Royal Spanish Ice Sports Federation announced that the copyright issue had been resolved.
