Chris Athens is an American

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from

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. He began his career at Sony Music Studios in New York in the mid-90s, where he worked until 1998, when he moved to Sterling Sound, where he worked for 13 years. He founded his own studio, Chris Athens Masters, in his hometown of Austin, Texas, where he currently operates. As of 2023, Athens is a six-time Grammy Awards nominee. He received his first Grammy Award for Best Historical Album nomination at the

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in 2000 for ''Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century''. His work with Canadian musician

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earned him two

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nominations – at the

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in 2017 for ''

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'' and at the

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in 2019 for ''

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'', as well as a

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nomination for " God's Plan". He also has two Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical nominations for

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's eponymous debut studio album and Robert Glasper's ''

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''. In 2018, at the

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Athens received two Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year nominations for Bomba Estéreo's "Internacionales" and Rosalía's " Malamente". The following year, at the

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, he achieved his third nomination in the respective category with Rosalía's "

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", along the way winning a Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year and a Latin Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album both for Rosalía's ''

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''. At the

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held in 2021,

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's song "Te Olvidaste" brought the engineer his fourth Record of the Year nomination, while C. Tangana's album ''

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'' gave him an Album of the Year nomination and Best Engineered Album win.

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