Tre Nagella

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Tre Nagella
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Recording engineer
  • mixer
  • record producer
Years active1999–present
Websitetrenagella.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]

Career[edit]

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[edit]

Year Nominated Work Category Award Result
2022 Losing My Religion (Kirk Franklin) Best Gospel Album Mixing & Engineering Grammy Award [1] Won
2012 Hello Fear (Kirk Franklin) Best Gospel Album Mixing & Engineering Grammy Award [1] Won
2009 The Fight of My Life (Kirk Franklin) Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album Mixing & Engineering Grammy Award [1] Won

Selected discography[edit]

Year Album Artist Credit
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 Power Mixing[22]
Only Human Calum Scott Vocal engineer[23]
Midnight in Macedonia Kitt Wakeley Vocal engineer
2017 Let Love Rule Ledisi Engineer
Greenleaf (TV series) Soundtrack Various artists Engineer[24]
2016 Hidden Figures (soundtrack) Various Artists Engineer[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]
2014 Philthy Philip Lassiter Engineer
Here Right Now Tasha Page-Lockhart Mixing[29]
Fast Forward The Walls Group Mixing
2012 Lotus Christina Aguilera Assistant engineer[30]
Joyful Noise Soundtrack Various artists Engineer
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]
2008 Crystal Aikin Crystal Aikin Engineer
2007 The Fight of My Life Kirk Franklin Keyboards
2006 RS2 Rhonda Smith Vocal Recording

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Grammy Awards Tre Nagella". Grammys. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  2. ^ "#WE Awards 2021 Producer of the Year to 3X Grammy Winner Tre Nagella". WE Movement TV. March 2, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Travis Scott Joins Ed Sheeran Of The "Antisocial" Brigade by Devin Ch". Hot New Whiphop. July 12, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  4. ^ "From Pimp C to Blake Shelton, Tre Nagella's Grammy-Winning Resume Is Gospel by Amy McCarthy". Dallas Observer. February 10, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  5. ^ "Luminous Sound"s producer and chief engineer, Tre Nagella won his third GRAMMY for Gospel Album of the Year alongside the great Kirk Franklin". Grammy Awards. February 13, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  6. ^ "NUGEN Audio's Producer bundle - Tre Nagella". Nugen Audio. June 17, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Don't Do It For The Grammys with Tre Nagella". Hacker Valley Studios. October 7, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  8. ^ "Full Sail Alumni on Nominated Projects at the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards". Full Sail edu. February 10, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  9. ^ a b "CFBISD Fine Arts Inducts First-Ever Hall of Famer". Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District. June 7, 2022. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  10. ^ "Billboard Classical Crossover Chart June 5, 2021". Billboard.com. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  11. ^ "Billboard Classical Chart June 5, 2021". Billboard.com. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  12. ^ a b Cristi, A.A. "Composer Kitt Wakeley 'Symphony Of Sinners And Saints,' Out May 21 Featuring Joe Satriani". Broadway World.
  13. ^ a b "Hear Joe Satriani on Kitt Wakeley's New Orchestral-Rock Song". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  14. ^ "Tre Nagella". Sound Better. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  15. ^ "The Verdigris Ensemble". Mighty Cause. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  16. ^ "Betty's Notebook". Verdigris Music. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  17. ^ "Alternative Recording Studio Models". SXSW. March 18, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  18. ^ "Recording Academy - Producers & Engineers Wing On the Move in Summer 2019 - Industry Insights: Amp Act for Producers & Engineers in Austin". Clyne Media. June 17, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  19. ^ "Recording Connection mentor Tre Nagella takes Grammys in Stride by Lia Swift". Recording Connection. February 16, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  20. ^ "Bobby Sessions - Manifest Album Credits". Pandora. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  21. ^ "The Secret" by Alan Parsons Chosen by IMC's Kim Reilly". Inside Musicast. December 21, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  22. ^ "The Hate U Give". Universal Music Group. Jun 21, 2022. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  23. ^ "Calum Scott Only Human Credits". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  24. ^ "Greenleaf Soundtrack Vol. 2". Barnes & Noble 2. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  25. ^ "Blake Shelton". Blake Shelton. February 17, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  26. ^ "Pimp C - Live The Pimp". Music Metason. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  27. ^ "Monica In 3D Lyrics". Genius. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  28. ^ "Shaun Martin - 7 Summers". Rope a Dope Select. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  29. ^ "Tasha Page-Lockhart - Here Right Now". Oldies. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  30. ^ "Christina Aguilera - Lotus". Grooves Inc. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  31. ^ "Hillbilly Bone (feat. Trace Adkins)". Blake Shelton YouTube Channel. August 7, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  32. ^ "That Thing We Do". Blake Shelton YouTube Channel 2. November 4, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  33. ^ "Suffocating". Reprise. November 8, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  34. ^ "The Master Plan By Tamela Mann (Recorded By)". Fish Pond. October 31, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
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