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Local Boston Boy Wins Grammy
Award
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Photo © Mr. Bonzai |
(East Boston, February 10, 2009) Joe Chiccarelli, born and raised in
East Boston and now a freelance Record Producer/Engineer won a
Grammy Award this Sunday in Hollywood to add to his previous seven Grammy
Awards. Chiccarelli won
Category 92 (An engineers award) for
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical )for
The Raconteurs' second album
Consolers of the Lonely.
Chiccarelli attended St. Lazarus Grammar School and then St. Domenic
Savio High in East Boston. He also attended Boston University
and briefly Berklee College of Music.
He began his music career after taking
guitar lessons from Joseph Cincotta and then becoming an engineering intern at his
cousin’s Fleetwood Record studio in Revere, MA. After working
briefly in Boston at the former Music Designers on Boylston
Street, Chiccarelli moved to Hollywood at the age of 21 and went to
work for Cherokee Studios.
After working with such artists as
Frank Zappa, Pat Benatar, Elton John, Beck, U2, Hanson and Rufus
Wainwright, Chiccarelli went out on his own.
Now working as a Producer with artists such as Oingo Boingo, Julieta
Veengas, Mike, Tori Amos, Melissa Etheridge and others. Recently he
has had success with artists such as the Shins, The White Stripes,
My Morning Jacket and Morrissey. He has also worked on music for
television and film. His motion
picture music credits include a Robert Teppar song in one of
Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky IV, work with director Robert
Altman and additional songs in such
films as Fast Times at Ridgemont High and most recently
The Forty Year Old Virgin and Pinneapple Express.
He resides in Hollywood and his mother Irene Chiccarelli still lives at
the family home in East Boston where he grew up.
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