Ken Caillat

Ken Caillat
Caillat during a 2012 interview
Caillat during a 2012 interview
Background information
Birth nameKenneth Douglas Caillat
Born (1946-08-12) August 12, 1946 (age 78)
San Jose, California[1]
Genres
OccupationRecord producer
Years active1971–present
Websitewww.kencaillat.com

Kenneth Douglas Caillat (/kæˈleɪ, kəˈleɪ/ kal-AY, kə-LAY) (born August 12, 1946) is an American record producer. He is best known for producing the Fleetwood Mac albums Rumours, Tusk and Mirage. He is the father of singer Colbie Caillat.

Life and career

Caillat was the president of 5.1 Entertainment Group Digital Production Services, which has worked on albums for Billy Idol, Frank Sinatra, Pat Benatar, Wilson Phillips, the Beach Boys, Herbie Hancock, David Becker and Alice Cooper as well as Christine McVie on her solo album In the Meantime, in addition to Fleetwood Mac, remastering several of their albums in 5.1 surround sound. He won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Rumours.[2]

In addition to production, he has been a director, studio engineer, author and musician. In 2012 he released his memoir on his experiences engineering the 1977 Rumours album, called Making Rumours.[3] In 2013, Caillat cofounded Sleeping Giant Music Group, LLC (a Sleeping Giant Media company) with Grammy nominated writer/producer Michael Hodges and writer/producer Kayla Morrison. In 2014, Sleeping Giant partnered with Alcon Entertainment to form ASG Music Group, LLC.[4][5]

He is the father of singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat and produced her albums Coco (2007), Breakthrough (2009), All of You (2011), and Christmas in the Sand (2012). He advised his daughter on taking up songwriting from an early age. In an interview with the Music Producers Forum [6] he recalls telling a young Colbie, "If you're really going to be a singer, then you have two choices, you're going to have to write your own songs, or you're going to have to buy somebody else's."

In January 2016, Caillat, who had a passion for the history of the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, where Rumours had been recorded, realized the necessity for its restoration. After developing what was thought to be a more sustainable business model for the music industry, he incorporated under the name Marin Music Project at the Record Plant in January 2017.[7]

In 2024, Caillat sued the creators of the 2023 Tony-Award-winning play Stereophonic, alleging that they adapted his memoir Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album without permission.[8]

Production discography

Sources

References

  1. ^ Ken Caillat with Steven Stiefel (2012). Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album. John Wiley and Sons. p. 154.
  2. ^ "Ken Caillat's Truth About Fleetwood Mac's Rumours". The GRAMMYs.
  3. ^ "Making Rumours, A Book about the making of Fleetwood Macs album Rumours". Ken Caillat. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
  4. ^ "Alcon Partners With Sleeping Giant Media To Form Movie & TV Music Services Company". Deadline Hollywood. April 15, 2014.
  5. ^ "Studio E". sleepinggiantmusicgroup.com. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014.
  6. ^ "Producer Ken Caillat talks about Colbie – Artist Development with 'little nudges'". Music Producers Forum. April 21, 2014.
  7. ^ "Fleetwood Mac producer sparks effort to buy Marin's historic Record Plant Studio". January 30, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
  8. ^ Evans, Greg (October 2, 2024). "Fleetwood Mac Sound Engineer Sues 'Stereophonic', Says Hit Broadway Drama "Copies The Heart And Soul" Of His 'Rumours' Memoir". Deadline. Retrieved October 26, 2024.
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