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Andrew Watt, Producer for the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Pearl Jam and Post Malone, on How He Became the Rock Hall of Fame Whisperer

Highly touted recent music by the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Pearl Jam has one thing in common: 33-year-old Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt.

“I got the Beatles, Zeppelin and Sabbath from my dad; Nirvana, Pearl Jam, A Tribe Called Quest and Wu-Tang Clan from my [older] brother; and mom listened to George Michael, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. He led rock bands as a teenager, but the truly formative experiences took place on New York’s club scene of the mid-and-late ‘00s, where he performed as a solo artist, played guitar with a DJ friend and also worked as an intern at Questlove and the Roots’ legendary jam sessions, helping to book and produce the shows and occasionally sitting in. Dozens of major productions followed — Post Malone, Lana Del Rey, Juice Wrld, Miley Cyrus, Bieber, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s smash “Señorita” — but the shift to rock came about in an unmistakably Hollywood fashion.

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