Sylvia Lenore Massy is an American record producer, mixer, and engineer.
24 Facts About Sylvia Massy
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Sylvia Massy followed this with producing the punk band Verbal Abuse for Boner Records, engineering two projects for metal band Exodus and co-producing the Sea Hags independent album with a young guitarist Kirk Hammett, who had just finished the Master of Puppets album with thrash metal group Metallica.
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Sylvia Massy produced "Television, Drug of a Nation" by the Beatnigs, the former band of the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's Michael Franti.
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Towards the end of the 1980s, Sylvia Massy moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and worked at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd.
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In Los Angeles, Sylvia Massy was an engineer, producer or mixer on recordings from artists including Aerosmith, Babyface, Big Daddy Kane, Bobby Brown, Prince, Julio Iglesias, Seal, Skunk Anansie, Paula Abdul, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many more.
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Sylvia Massy worked with manager Gary Kurfirst on Irish rock band Cyclefly for Kurfirst's Radioactive Records.
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At Larrabee Sound, Sylvia Massy connected with producer Rick Rubin and would work with him on several projects spanning seven years.
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Sylvia Massy's equipment is visible in many scenes of Dave Grohl's film Sound City.
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Sylvia Massy engineered and mixed several projects for producer Rick Rubin on his label American Recordings, including Johnny Cash's album Unchained, which won a Grammy award for Best Country Album in 1997.
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Sylvia Massy wrote an essay about Thomas Edison's contribution to the recording industry which was included in the official Grammy Awards Program.
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In January 2015, Sylvia Massy began to write a book called Recording Unhinged for Hal Leonard Publishing.
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In 2015 and 2018, Sylvia Massy was a visiting professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
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In 2018 Sylvia Massy taught a workshop at the Abbey Road Institute in London, UK.
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Sylvia Massy has presented periodic recording workshops in Dresden at Castle Rohrsdorf and at Mix with the Masters in Les Studios de la Fabrique in Saint-Remy-de-Provence in the south of France.
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In 2017 Sylvia Massy conducted a workshop and lecture at the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Gilbert, Arizona, and a workshop at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City for several hundred students.
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Sylvia Massy has conducted workshops in Sardinia, Oslo and Gdansk and Rome.
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In 2019, Sylvia Massy toured and conducted workshops for Abbey Road Institute locations in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and London.
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Sylvia Massy continues to work as an independent producer, educator and music promoter.
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In February 2016 Sylvia Massy won the Music Producers Guild's "MPG Inspiration Award" at the MPG Awards in London.
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In 2016 Sylvia Massy recorded Seattle all-woman noise band Thunderpussy in an abandoned nuclear power plant's cooling tower for the song "Torpedo Love".
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Sylvia Massy recorded singer-songwriter Sarah Brendel in the underground venue at the Merkers Show Mine, a retired salt mine in Merkers, Germany.
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Sylvia Massy produced albums by Econoline Crush, Far From Alaska and Dishwalla, and was hired to re-work the recordings of Grey Daze, a side project by Linkin Park's frontman Chester Bennington.
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In early 2018, Sylvia Massy traveled to Mexico City to produce the MTV Unplugged television broadcast of the band Molotov.
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In 2019 Sylvia Massy produced and mixed the follow-up to Life of Agony's River Runs Red album, named The Sound of Scars.