Draft:João Carvalho (Music)

João Carvalho (born c. 1964) is a multi award-winning Canadian recording and mastering engineer, producer and musician as well as owner of João Carvalho Mastering in Toronto. Carvalho is a pioneer of the Canadian music recording industry, with dozens of Juno and Grammy Awards and many gold and platinum albums credited to his name. He has served as mastering engineer on over 2000 recordings.

Biography

João Carvalho was born in São Miguel, Azores. In 1967, at the age of three, he emigrated with his family to Montreal, Quebec. The Carvalho family moved to Windsor, Ontario four years later, where his mother was a seamstress and his father worked at the Ford Motor Company. Growing up close to Detroit offered João the opportunity to frequently see major rock bands perform live and his interest in music grew. He learned how to play guitar and later started a rock band while attending the University of Windsor and St. Clair College.

When he was 21, João and the other members of his band moved to Toronto, seeing this as a path to success. But during their recording sessions, João became fascinated with the recording and mastering process. One of the recording engineers, Jamie Stanley, took João under his wing and taught him the craft. The two eventually became partners at a studio called Umbrella Sound. João started mastering studio recordings there in 1994. In 2003, he set off on his own, opening João Carvalho Mastering. He and three partners also built a recording studio complex in Toronto called Revolution Recording that opened its doors in 2012.

João lives in Toronto with his family and says he has "a somewhat (un)healthy passion for cars and fine audio equipment".

Work

João Carvalho has worked with many of Canada's finest artists and musicians including Rush, The Tragically Hip, Max Webster, The Sheepdogs, Smashing Pumpkins, Ron Sexsmith, Walk Off the Earth, Death From Above 1979, City and Colour, Sloan, Blue Rodeo, Sam Roberts, Alexisonfire, Matthew Good Band, Sophie Milman, Protest The Hero, Lights, Rose Cousins, Dave Sills, Treble Charger, Hayden, Black Cabbage, Skydiggers, Tegan and Sara, The Weakerthans, Tea Party, The Constantines, Rheostatics, The Sadies, Sarah Harmer, The Barra MacNeils, Tom Cochrane, Emm Gryner, Sue Smith, Treasa Levasseur, George Canyon, Great Lake Swimmers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Barzin, Cuff The Duke, By Divine Right, The Trews, k. d. lang, Jenn Grant, Arkells, Sarah Slean, Justin Rutledge, Tannis Slimmon, Tanya Tagaq, Liona Boyd, Whitehorse, Donovan Woods, Headstones, The Watchmen, The Dears, The Lowest Of The Low, Cadence Weapon, Yukon Blonde, Jill Barber, Reuben And The Dark, Crown Lands, The Weather Station, Hawksley Workman, Harrow Fair, July Talk

He also work with artists from outside of Canada including Death Cab For Cutie, Brian Eno, Barry Gibb and Olivia Newton John.