Chad Copelin is an American producer, audio engineer, musician, and songwriter from

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. Copelin got his start playing in local bands and majoring in music composition and after three years of school, left to collaborate with various musicians, tour nationally, and engineer and produce local bands. In 2005, he opened Blackwatch Studios with co-owner Jarod Evans and produced his first full-length album, ''I Am Haunted, I Am Alive'' by Beau Jenning's project Cheyenne. Copelin was nominated at the 2017

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s for Best Contemporary Christian Album for his work on "Poets & Saints" by

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. Copelin began to garner attention from a diverse mix of musicians and has since gone on to engineer music for pop artists

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, Train,

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, and

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, as well as produce and engineer indie artists such as

Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens ( ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released nine solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nomi ...

Ben Rector Benjamin Evans Rector (born November 6, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has released seven studio albums, including ''Brand New (Ben Rector album), Brand New'' (2015), which peaked a ...

, Ivan & Alyosha, Bronze Radio Return, Emily Hearn,

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, and Other Lives, among others. In 2011 Copelin worked on

's Top 40 song " A Thousand Years" that went on to receive six platinum records. Copelin's most recent projects include engineering Sufjan Steven's album, ''

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'', along with recording and producing Broncho's ''Just Enough Hip to Be a Woman'' and Ivan & Alyosha's ''It's All Just Pretend''. Copelin has also been working on new projects with Broncho, Riah, Ben Rector, Bronze Radio Return, Sports and Andrew Belle.

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