Serban Ghenea

Serban Ghenea, is a renowned Grammy Award–winning audio engineer and mixer, widely recognized for his exceptional contributions to the music industry. Born in Bucharest, Romania, Ghenea moved to Montreal with his family in 1976. He studied jazz guitar in Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts, earning his BFA in 1992.   

A chance encounter with American record producer Teddy Riley in 1993 led to a role as an in-house recording and mix engineer, working with artists like Michael Jackson. This marked the beginning of a prolific career, mixing albums for some of the biggest names in pop music, including Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Lil Nas X, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga and The Rolling Stones. 

Ghenea’s discography spans over 800 albums across multiple genres, resulting in at least 235 number-one singles and albums. He has won 23 Grammy Awards, including two for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and five for Album of the Year on Taylor Swift’s 1989, Folklore and Midnights, Adele’s 25 and Bruno Mars’s 24K Magic. Ghenea has also won three Juno Awards for Recording Engineer of the Year in 2021, 2023 and 2025.

Based at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach, Ghenea now works alongside his son, Alex, also a mixer and producer. Father and son earned competing nominations at the 2024 and 2025 Grammy Awards for separate projects.

With a seamless blend of technical precision and creative intuition, Ghenea continues to refine the sound of modern music, solidifying his legacy as one of the most sought-after mix engineers of his generation.