A ten-time Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning producer, engineer, and mixer, Joe Chiccarelli has helped shape the sonic landscape of pop and rock music since the 1980s. In addition to his long list of production credits, which includes sessions with Tori Amos, Beck, U2, the Strokes, the Killers, Elton John, and the White Stripes, among many others, Chiccarelli has served as the music supervisor for films such as Suicide Kings and Men with Guns, the television series Cracker, and Robert Altman's The Gun.

Born in Boston, producer Joe Chiccarelli got his first taste of the studio through a cousin who owned Boston's Fleetwood Studio. Chiccarelli moved west in the late '70s, where he scored an assistant engineer gig at L.A.'s Cherokee Studios. As often happens within the studio world, Chiccarelli caught his break when he happened to be at the right place at the right time (or the wrong place at the wrong time, depending on who you ask). As Cherokee's resident flack, Chiccarelli was assigned to assist demanding clients such as Frank Zappa, who was known for keeping late hours. When Zappa's principal engineer got held up and couldn't make it to the studio, Zappa upgraded Chiccarelli from assistant to engineer. The album, Sheik Yerbouti, was a giant step forward for the young studio man. From there, Chiccarelli went on to engineer several other Zappa efforts, such as Joe's Garage, Baby Snakes, and Tinseltown Rebellion.

Chiccarelli earned his first Latin Grammy award in 2000 for his work on Cafe Tacuba's Revés and took home an American Grammy two years later for his work on the Mexico City alternative rock band's fifth long-player, Cuatro Caminos. He followed up on those successes with a string of high-profile jobs, including engineering the White Stripes' Icky Thump (2007) and the Raconteurs' Consolers of the Lonely (2008), both of which received Grammy noms. Now based at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood, Chiccarelli stayed busy into the 2010s and beyond, producing sessions for Minus the Bear, the Killers, the Strokes, Jason Mraz, Alanis Morissette, Bernard Fanning, Morrissey, Divine Fits, and Vance Joy, while also serving as an A&R consultant for major and independent labels. ~ Steve Kurutz & James Christopher Monger, Rovi