Rob Cavallo

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Rob Cavallo is a record producer. He is currently a senior Vice President at Level 7, a multi level entertainment marketing firm based in Orange County.

[edit] History

Cavallo was born in Washington, DC; his father Bob Cavallo (currently Chairman of Buena Vista Music Group), worked in the music industry as a band manager with groups such as Prince and Little Feat. When the younger Rob was about age ten the family moved to Los Angeles, California. As a teen he played in local bands, and after graduating from high school he began working as a recording engineer. In the mid to late 80's Cavallo worked with the so-called "hair metal" bands around Hollywood as a record producer. Rob Cavallo has produced many pop rock bands as well. This continued into the 1990s; however, when the hair metal scene died out he began seeking out alternative bands to work with. Cavallo currently lives in California with his wife Amy. They have two daughters, Emily Jackson and Estelle-Deseraie. Cavallo's oldest daughter, Bailey Madison, was born in 1985 to his first wife Lainya Madison. He is a licensed commercial pilot, earning the distinction in 1992, and has written many books on cooking, specifically 1998's "Rock the Kitchen", and 2000's "Rob's Kabob's: And other secret recipes from the mind of a musical genius". In his spare time he whips up a mean spaghetti and meatball. His brother, Doug, often does engineering for him, when he's not traveling the country as a religious inspirational speaker.

[edit] Projects

Cavallo was an in-house producer with the band Green Day. He has co-produced almost every album, since their multi-million seller Dookie to their conceptual punk-rock opera American Idiot. Cavallo has also produced records for Jawbreaker, the Goo Goo Dolls, Chris Isaak, and Alanis Morissette, plus a number of motion picture soundtracks. He also recently produced Jewel's 6th album, entitled Goodbye Alice in Wonderland.

Cavallo produced My Chemical Romance's third album, The Black Parade, on April 10, 2006, which was released October 23, 2006 internationally and October 24, 2006 in the United States. [1]

Cavallo also often plays the piano on albums he produces, for example on the song "Cancer" from the My Chemical Romance album The Black Parade.

It was announced in a telephone interview on July 24, 2008 with Toronto radio station CHUM-FM that Cavallo is producing American Idol (season 7) winner David Cook's self - titled upcoming album, due out November 18, 2008. [2] He is also set to produce Meat Loaf's new album which is set to be released in 2010. [3]

Cavallo is the producer on the newest Dave Matthews Band album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.

Cavallo also helped produce Shinedown's third album, The Sound Of Madness

He is also currently working with Paramore, and Aly & AJ on their upcoming albums for 2009.