Greg Wells is a Canadian musician, record producer, songwriter and audio engineer.
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15 Facts About Greg Wells
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Classically trained multi-instrumentalist, Greg Wells is featured as a drummer in Modern Drummer, as a pianist in Keyboard, as a synth programmer in Electronic Musician, as a songwriter in American Songwriter and Billboard, and as a producer, mix engineer, and music maker on the cover of Mix with Ryan Tedder in the May 2017 edition.
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Greg Wells grew up in the town of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, the son of United Church of Canada minister Dr Reverend Bill Greg Wells.
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At age 15, Greg Wells was awarded the top prize out of all categories in the Peterborough Kiwanis Music Festival, the Founders Award, and represented Peterborough twice at the Kiwanis Music Provincial Finals for the province of Ontario.
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Greg Wells was awarded a Canada Council arts grant to study in California with Clare Fischer, composer and string arranger for Prince.
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Greg Wells'sfirst recorded song as a songwriter was with Aerosmith on the double platinum Nine Lives, followed by "The Reason" on Celine Dion's 31 million selling album, Let's Talk About Love.
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In 2007, Greg Wells produced both Timbaland's and OneRepublic's version of the song, "Apologize".
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Greg Wells has designed best selling music software, creating the "El Rey" compressor plugin with Acustica Audio and Studio DMI, and a signature series of plugins with Waves Audio.
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Greg Wells produced the Grammy and Golden Globe nominated song "Beautiful Ghosts" performed by Taylor Swift for the 2019 film Cats, an adaptation of the 1981 musical of the same name.
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Greg Wells worked on a second film with Alex Lacamoire and Miranda, the animated hit movie musical Vivo directed by Kirk DeMicco.
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Greg Wells worked on a third film for Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial debut, mixing the songs in the musical film Tick, Tick.
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Greg Wells received the Pensado Giant Award at the 2017 Pensado Awards for achievements in the field of record-making.
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In June 2015, Greg Wells was awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater Humber College, a music school in Toronto.
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Greg Wells was nominated as producer of the year in 2000 and 2019 at the Canadian Juno Awards.
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