Tre Nagella

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Tre Nagella
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  • Recording engineer
  • mixer
  • record producer
Years active1999–present
Website trenagella.com

Tre Nagella is an American audio engineer, mixer, and record producer. He has won three Grammy Awards and worked with artists including Kirk Franklin, Ed Sheeran, Blake Shelton, Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Brandy, and Monica, among others. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He launched the recording studio Luminous Sound Studios in Dallas, Texas in 2019. [6]

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Career

Tre Nagella started playing guitar in his teens and was involved with his High School's technical theater department, running the audio for the orchestra, choir, jazz band, musicals, and dance concerts. [7] After graduating from High School, he attended Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts where he won four Directors Awards and was the Valedictorian of his class. [8] [9]

Nagella had a long working relationship with gospel artist Kirk Franklin, winning three Grammy Awards for engineering his albums, Losing My Religion , Hello Fear , and The Fight of My Life . [1] He has also engineered and mixed many of the albums for Franklin's record label including The Walls Group’s Grammy-nominated album, Fast Forward.

He has engineered and mixed albums for artists Ed Sheeran, Travis Scott, Lady Gaga, Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, Pimp C, Monica, Alan Parsons, Ledisi, Tamela Mann and others. He co-produced Kitt Wakeley's Symphony of Sinners & Saints album which peaked at #1 on Billboard's Classical Crossover and Classical charts. [10] [11] [12] [13] He has written and produced music used in advertising campaigns for Apple, Samsung, Ford Motor Company and Smirnoff Vodka, among others. [14]

Nagella, along with choral group Verdigris Ensemble and technology company Async Art, created the first programmable music NFT (non-fungible tokens) called Betty's Notebook, a 21-minute programmable piece of music. [15] [16]

Nagella has been a panel and guest speaker at SXSW, [17] The Recording Academy, [18] Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts, The Fine Arts Department at CFBISD (Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District), and the Recording Connection, among others. [19] The Fine Arts Department at CFBISD (Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District) inducted him into the Hall of Fame at the CFBISD Fine Arts State and National Awards Ceremony in 2022. [9]

Awards

YearNominated WorkCategoryAwardResult
2022 Losing My Religion (Kirk Franklin)Best Gospel AlbumMixing & EngineeringGrammy Award [1] Won
2012 Hello Fear (Kirk Franklin)Best Gospel AlbumMixing & EngineeringGrammy Award [1] Won
2009 The Fight of My Life (Kirk Franklin)Best Contemporary R&B Gospel AlbumMixing & EngineeringGrammy Award [1] Won

Selected discography

YearAlbumArtistCredit
2021 Symphony of Sinners & Saints Kitt Wakeley Co-producer, mixing, engineer [12] [13]
Manifest Bobby Sessions Mixing [20]
2019 The Secret Alan Parsons Engineer [21]
Antisocial Ed Sheeran featuring Travis Scott Vocal engineer [3]
2018 The Hate U Give (film) Bobby Sessions · Keite Young - Fight the PowerMixing [22]
Only Human Calum Scott Vocal engineer [23]
Midnight in Macedonia Kitt Wakeley Vocal engineer
2017 Let Love Rule Ledisi Engineer
Greenleaf (TV series) SoundtrackVarious artistsEngineer [24]
2016 Hidden Figures (soundtrack) Various ArtistsEngineer [7]
2015 Reloaded: 20 Number 1 Hits Blake Shelton Engineer [25]
Long Live the Pimp Pimp C Mixing [26]
Losing My Religion Kirk Franklin Mixing, engineer [1]
New Life Monica Vocal engineer [27]
7 Summers Shaun Martin Engineer [28]
2014PhilthyPhilip LassiterEngineer
Here Right Now Tasha Page-Lockhart Mixing [29]
Fast Forward The Walls Group Mixing
2012 Lotus Christina Aguilera Assistant engineer [30]
Joyful Noise SoundtrackVarious artistsEngineer
Best Days Tamela Mann Engineer
2011 Hello Fear Kirk Franklin Engineer, Guitar, Drum Programming, Digital Editing [1]
2009 Hillbilly Bone Blake Shelton Assistant engineer [31] [32] [33]
The Big Picture Da' T.R.U.T.H. Engineer
Master Plan Tamela Mann Mixing [34]
2008Crystal Aikin Crystal Aikin Engineer
2007 The Fight of My Life Kirk Franklin Keyboards
2006RS2 Rhonda Smith Vocal Recording

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