RSR283 - Tony Succar - Latin Grammy Producer Of The Year
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Tony Succar a two-time Latin Grammy award-winning and #1 Billboard charting artist, producer, and composer/arranger Born in Lima, Peru and raised in Miami, Florida. Tony's produces music in the world of salsa, jazz, pop, and afro-latino-inspired music. He has a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from Florida International University.
In 2018, Tony was nominated for the prestigious Latin Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Song, "Me Enamoro Mas De Ti." He received four nominations in 2019 for Album of the Year, Best Tropical Song, Best Salsa Album, and Producer of the Year for his most recent album, Mas de Mi. Tony took home two Latin Grammys for Producer of the Year and Best Salsa Album, making history as the youngest winner to have ever won both categories.
Mas de Mi was released by Tony through his independent label, Unity Entertainment. His inspiration for the album was to write and produce non-traditional songs that will appeal to younger generations. He has also worked with an impressive array of talented artists, including Tito Nieves, India, Jon Secada, Marc Anthony, Sheila E., Arturo Sandoval, Judith Hill, and Obie Bermudez, among others.
Tony's debut album, UNITY: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson, had tremendous success, reaching Billboard's #1 Tropical Album Music Chart, iTunes' #1 World Latin Chart, and Amazon's #1 Latin Pop Music chart, among others. It also evolved into a nationally-televised primetime PBS special that kicked off the PBS Fall Arts Festival.
He has performed at the Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival (Aruba), the Ravinia Festival (Chicago), Auditorio Telmex (Mexico), Vivo Beach (Puerto Rico), Tempo Latino (France), and the 2019 Latin Grammy Awards (MGM Grand Las Vegas), among others.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Sound Porter mastering, Adam Audio, OWC, JZ microphones, Spectra-1964, and Isotope. |
| 0:12.6 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now on the JZBB29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 micpre, C-610 complementer, and isotope RX and ozone. |
| 0:24.6 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:26.6 | I would say the most important thing is choosing the musicians wisely and getting the best of the best to record your music, because they will bring your arrangements, they will bring everything |
| 0:37.8 | to life. They will almost fix whatever is actually wrong. So I was like, oh my gosh, that sounds like |
| 0:42.6 | a good plan. When I was choosing my musicians to work on Mas de Me, it was sort of a similar |
| 0:47.5 | process, man. I was calling the cream of the crop, the best of the best. |
| 1:03.2 | Welcome to recording studio rock stars. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm Lid Shaw and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm Brian Murphy, and I strive to produce masters that move your song emotionally, but maintain the spirit of your mix and the intention of the artist. |
| 1:24.6 | My promise is to give your music its best sonic performance, not simply change it. |
| 1:29.3 | You work hard on your mix, and I always want to respect that. My goal is to help you realize how great your mix can be, and I'll work hard to make sure it succeeds. |
| 1:38.3 | I don't just master. I help your mix sound the best it can. Contact me for a free mastering demo at soundporter.com. |
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| 2:21.9 | Hey, rock stars, it's your host, Lid Shaw, and welcome back to recording studio rockstars, |
| 2:26.6 | bringing you into the studio to learn from recording professionals so that you can make your |
| 2:30.7 | best record ever and be a rock star of the studio yourself. My guest today is Tony Sukar, a two-time Latin Grammy award-winning and number one |
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