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‘Wicked’ Music Producer Greg Wells on Losing a World-Class Studio as Well as Family Home in the Fires — and the Sorrow of Saying Goodbye to the Palisades


Greg Wells, music producer of 'Wicked' and many pop hits, talks about losing his home studio in the fire, and saying goodbye to the Pacific Palisades.

But there’s no such consolation for many of those who work on the music side, as the professional-grade home studios of untold numbers of producers, engineers and musicians have gone up in flames alongside their actual residences. That’s true for music producer Greg Wells, who lost his state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos mixing room and studio along with his family home in Pacific Palisades. Wells, who has worked with such artists as Katy Perry, Adele, Dua Lipa, OneRepublic, Celine Dion and Twenty One Pilots, had what may have been one of the most advanced Atmos mixing rooms in town right in his backyard.

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