Engineer

Alex Venguer

Location: NYC

Alex Venguer was born and raised in Mexico City, after High School he moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music, where he studied Music Production & Engineering as well as taking various classes from the Arranging and Classical Composition departments. After Berklee, he moved to NYC where he started his job as a general assistant at Sound On Sound Studios, eventually he moved up to an assistant position, and during that time he was part of the merge between Sound On Sound and Right Track which would become Legacy Recording Studios. During that period Alex had the opportunity to assist, learn from and work with some of the top engineers and artists in the world. After some time there he went freelance, but to this day keeps his relation with the studio as one of the few and select engineers that Legacy Recording Studios uses for their sessions.

Since 2006, when he went freelance, Alex has been recording & mixing for many of the top names in the industry as well as being part of the more indie movement in the city. In 2009 he was awarded a Grammy for recording and mixing Loudon Wainwright's record "High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Pool Project" which won the "Best Traditional Folk" album of the year. Then, in 2010 he was awarded his second Grammy for his work on the album "Wake Up" by John Legend & The Roots which won the award for "Best R&B" album of the year. In addition to that, he's been involved in various other Grammy winning and nominated albums such as Maria Schneider's "Sky Blue", John Legend's "Evolver" and the song "Shine" as well as the cast albums for the Broadway productions of "Shrek" and "9 to 5".

Alex is an engineer capable and comfortable with recording and mixing as large or small a project as can come and has had great experience on and working with the top names in styles as varied as jazz, rock, folk, classical, pop, hip hop, broadway, r&b, electronic and many others. Some examples of the artists he's worked with include Sting, John Legend, Maria Schneider, Marcus Miller, Aretha Frankiln, Wynton Marsalis, Juan Luis Guerra, Phil Collins, Christian McBride, Cassandra Wilson, Sufjan Stevens, Regina Spektor, My Brightest DIamond, Rufus Wainwright , John Patitucci and many others.