Chris Gehringer (born May 27, 1962) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in New Jersey.
Gehringer is known for having mastered recordings by popular artists such as AJR, Dua Lipa, Drake, Ed Sheeran, Gwen Stefani, Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Selena Gomez, Twenty One Pilots, Lana Del Rey, Lil Nas X, Lizzo, and many others. Works engineered by Gehringer span many genres such as pop, R&B, hip hop, and dance.
Early life Gehringer was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and raised in Bergen County. After graduating from Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, New Jersey, he attended the Institute of Audio Research.
Career Gehringer’s first job in the music industry was at Greene Street Recording. From there, he went on to work as a cutting assistant at Trutone Records.
In 1985, Gehringer joined Tom Coyne and Herbie Powers at Frankford-Wayne Mastering and mastered primarily dance and R&B records throughout the 1980s.
In 1988, he moved to the Hit Factory, where he worked for twelve years. During his time there, he witnessed the golden age of hip hop, mastering landmark releases by artists such as Naughty By Nature, Mobb Deep, Wu Tang Clan, and PM Dawn.
In 1999, Gehringer joined Sterling Sound as a senior mastering engineer.
Gehringer received his first Grammy Awards nominations in 2012 in the category of Album of the Year. He was nominated both for his work on Rihanna’s Loud and for his work on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. Since then, he has been nominated for 21 Grammys and 7 Latin Grammys. In 2022, he won Latin Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album and Album of the Year for his mastering work on Rosalía's album Motomami.
In 2016, he became an official partner of Sterling Sound.
Awards and nominations Grammy Awards |- |rowspan="2"| 2012 |Loud | rowspan="3"| Album of the Year
|Born This Way
|rowspan="3"|2013 |Some Nights
|"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" | rowspan="5"| Record of the Year
|"We Are Young"
|2014 |"Blurred Lines"
| rowspan="2"|2016 |"Work"
|"Stressed Out"
|rowspan="2"| 2019 |Dirty Computer |Album of the Year
|Head Over Heels |Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
|rowspan="3"| 2020 |"Truth Hurts" |Record of the Year
|Norman Fucking Rockwell! | rowspan="3"| Album of the Year
|Cuz I Love You
| rowspan="2"| 2021 | Future Nostalgia
| "Don't Start Now" | rowspan="2"| Record of the Year
| rowspan="2"| 2022 |"Montero (Call Me by Your Name)"
| Montero | rowspan="2"|Album of the Year
| rowspan="3"| 2024 | World Music Radio
| "Worship" |Record of the Year
|Desire, I Want to Turn Into You |Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
| 2025 | Cyan Blue | Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Latin Grammy Awards
|2008 |Eternamiente |Best Rock Album by a Duo or Group with Vocal
|2012 |Peligro |Album of the Year
|2017 |Felices los 4 | rowspan="2"|Record of the Year
| rowspan="3"|2022 |La Fama
| rowspan="2"|Motomami |Best Engineered Album
|Album of the Year
|2023 |Despechá |Record of the Year
TEC Awards
|2011 |"F***k You" |Record Production/Single
Notable works As adapted from the Career Highlights section of Gehringer's official web page.
Naughty by Nature, by Naughty by Nature, 1991 Boomerang: Original Soundtrack Album, by various artists, 1992 Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), by Wu-Tang Clan, 1993 "Thug Love", by 50 Cent, 1999 Hot Shot, by Shaggy, 2000 Stillmatic, by Nas, 2001 Loose, by Nelly Furtado, 2006 We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. by Jason Mraz, 2008 Thank Me Later, by Drake, 2010 Loud, by Rihanna, 2010 Born This Way, by Lady Gaga, 2011 Unapologetic, by Rihanna, 2012 Blurryface, by Twenty One Pilots, 2015 "Be Careful", by Cardi B, 2016 Anti, by Rihanna, 2016 Harry Styles, by Harry Styles, 2017 Masseduction, by St. Vincent, 2017 One More Light, by Linkin Park, 2017 Good Thing, by Leon Bridges, 2018 Head over Heels, by Chromeo, 2018 Dirty Computer, by Janelle Monáe, 2018 Cuz I Love You, by Lizzo, 2018 Trench by Twenty One Pilots, 2018 Norman Fucking Rockwell!, by Lana Del Rey, 2019 Future Nostalgia, by Dua Lipa, 2019 Glow On, by Turnstile, 2020 "Heat Waves", by Glass Animals, 2021 Scaled and Icy by Twenty One Pilots, 2021 5SOS5, by 5 Seconds of Summer, 2022 "I Ain't Worried", by OneRepublic, 2022 Dance Fever, by Florence and the Machine, 2022 Motomami, by Rosalia, 2022 "Single Soon", by Selena Gomez, 2023 World Music Radio, by Jon Batiste, 2023 Snow Angel, by Reneé Rapp, 2023 So Much (for) Stardust, by Fall Out Boy, 2023 "Me & U", by Tems, 2023 Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, by Caroline Polachek, 2023 7, by Nelly Furtado, 2024 GOLDENWEEK, by MILLENNIUM PARADE, 2024 KIZAO, by MILLENNIUM PARADE, Rauw Alejandro, Tainy, 2024 Apt., by Rosé, Bruno Mars, 2024 Happy, by Jin, 2024 Burnout, by BoyWithUke, 2024 Cosa Nuestra, by Rauw Alejandro, 2024
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