Bruce Swedien
Bruce Swedien ( born April 19, 1934 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American sound engineer.
Work
Swedien was born in Minnesota as a descendant of Swedish immigrants. He began his musical career in 1959 in the studios of Universal Recording Corporation by Bill Putnam in Chicago.
Were recorded and mixed by him, inter alia, The following artists and soundtracks:
- Jazz: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Quincy Jones, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock
- Pop: David Hasselhoff, Patti Austin, Natalie Cole, Roberta Flack, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Sarah Vaughan
- Movie Soundtracks: Night Shift, The Color Purple, Running Scared.
For music makers in Europe Swedien was known by a workshop tour in the 1990s as well as the advertising campaign as Famous Monsters for the company Monster Cable.
He was the best-selling album in the world, Thriller by Michael Jackson, the engineer at the mixing desk and worked even more years with Jackson together. He was 13 - times Grammy nominated five times and won a Grammy Award for the Michael Jackson albums Thriller, Bad and Dangerous and 1991 for Back on the Block by Quincy Jones.
On November 10, 2001, he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the Technical University of Luleå, Sweden for his work as a sound engineer.