Russell Elevado

Russell Elevado

  • D'angelo
  • Keziah Jones
  • Alicia Keys
  • The Roots
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Rue Boyer Studios, Paris, France

Five-Day Seminar in Paris

Join multi-Grammy winning engineer Russell Elevado for a five-day production seminar in Paris from January 25 to 29, 2027.

Russell recorded and mixed D'Angelo's Voodoo and Black Messiah, two albums that shaped the sound of modern soul and both winners of the Grammy for Best R&B Album. At Rue Boyer Studios, he will work through his process from tracking to tape to mixing on the console, and show how that sound is built, decision by decision.

In addition to his work with D'Angelo, Russell has recorded and mixed for The Roots, Erykah Badu, Common, Al Green, Jay-Z, and Keziah Jones.

Over four decades he has worked with a musically diverse list of artists including Jon Batiste, Angélique Kidjo, Alicia Keys, Kamasi Washington, BADBADNOTGOOD, Tom Misch, and Xênia França, whose Em Nome da Estrela won the Latin Grammy for Best Portuguese Language Contemporary Pop Album. He has engineered more than fifty full albums across a discography of over 100, and won five Grammy Awards.

This is not a nostalgic look at vintage gear. Over five days, Russell will focus on analog thinking: committing to sounds, working within limits, and trusting your ears. Designed for working engineers and producers across all genres, the seminar shows how to bring that approach into any workflow, whether on tape, on a console, or in a hybrid setup.

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Bio

Russell Elevado is a recording engineer and record producer based in New York City. Recording and mixing contemporary R&B artist D'Angelo's critically acclaimed Voodoo earned him a Grammy Award in 2000. Voodoo is now considered a classic of the genre and paved the way for the neo-soul movement.

Elevado's "old school" engineering techniques and preference for mostly vintage equipment gave the album a sound reminiscent of a classic soul or funk record but with a fresh approach, fusing hip hop textures and the psychedelic treatments heard on classic sixties and seventies rock records. In 2015 he and D'Angelo won another Grammy for Best R&B Album on Black Messiah, the long-awaited follow-up to Voodoo. Also notable is his work with The Roots, Erykah Badu, Common and Bilal, who were leading artists of the neo-soul genre. Over four decades Elevado has worked with a musically diverse list of artists including Jon Batiste, Angélique Kidjo, Alicia Keys, Kamasi Washington, BADBADNOTGOOD, Tom Misch and Xênia França, whose Em Nome da Estrela won a Latin Grammy. He has worked on more than fifty full albums from a discography of over 100, and won five Grammy Awards.

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Join producer Russell for an exclusive webinar during which he will go over his production approach and philosophy and answer all questions you may have about his workflow and techniques.
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