Serban Ghenea

Serban Ghenea (Romanian: Șerban Ghenea) is a Canadian audio engineer and mixer.^[2] He has been nominated for a Grammy Award a total of 45 times and has won 21 times.^[3]

Serban Ghenea Șerban Ghenea
Birth name	Șerban Ghenea
Born	1969 or 1970 (age 55–56)[1] Bucharest, Romania
Genres	Pop hip hop electronic
Occupation(s)	Audio engineer, mixer, record producer
Years active	1994–present
Website	serbanghenea.com

Early life and education

Ghenea was born in Romania, and in 1976 he moved to Montreal with his family. He later attended John Abbott College, Concordia University, then McGill University.^[4]

Ghenea's son, Alex, is also a mixer and producer. At the 66th (2024) and 67th (2025) Annual Grammy Awards, Șerban and Alex were both nominated in the Best Dance Pop Recording category with separate recordings.^[1]

Career

Ghenea's career began through a chance meeting with Teddy Riley in 1993 while visiting his girlfriend (now wife), that led to Riley hiring him as an in-house mixing and recording engineer.^[4] Throughout his career, Ghenea has worked with artists in pop music, including Juice Wrld, Ariana Grande, Adele, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Demi Lovato, Sabrina Carpenter, Bruno Mars, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake. With Riley, Ghenea worked on projects that included Michael Jackson and Blackstreet.^[5]

Awards and nominations

Ghenea won his first Grammy in 2004 at the 46th Grammy Awards for Justin Timberlake’s Justified.^[6] As of 2024, Ghenea has been nominated for 45 Grammy Awards.,^[1] and won a total of 21 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards.^[5]

He won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year five times; winning for Taylor Swift's 1989 (2014), Folklore (2020), and Midnights (2022), Adele's 25 (2015), and Bruno Mars' 24K Magic (2016).^[7] Ghenea also won the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Shakira’s Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 (2005).