Jerry Boys is a classically trained British record producer, and engineer, noted for his works with The Beatles, Omara Portuondo, Pink Floyd, Ibrahim Ferrer, The Kronos Quartet, Everything but the Girl, The Shadows, John Lee Hooker, Richard Thompson, The Rolling Stones, Ali Farka Touré, Steeleye Span, Shakira, R.E.M, Buena Vista Social Club, Sandy Denny, Olivia Chaney, Toumani Diabaté, Shirley Collins, Yehudi Menuhin, Orchestra Baobab, Manfred Mann, Level 42, and Ry Cooder.
He started his career in 1965 at Abbey Road Studios when he was 17 years old, and is a four-time Grammy Award winner, and three-time nominee. Boys also worked at Olympic Studios, Livingston Recording Studios, EGREM and Sawmills Studios in Cornwall, England.
Grammy Awards and nominations Year awardedNominee/workAwardResult2000Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim FerrerLatin Grammy Award for Best Engineered AlbumNominated2003Mambo SinuendoGrammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental AlbumWon2003Buenos HermanosGrammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin AlbumWon2004Buenos HermanosGrammy Award for Best Tropical Latin AlbumNominated2004Mambo SinuendoGrammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental AlbumNominated2005In the Heart of the MoonGrammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin AlbumWon2010Ali and ToumaniGrammy Award for Best Global Music Albumwon
BAFTA Awards and nominations Year awardedNominee/workAwardResult2000??BAFTA Award for Best SoundNominated
References
External links Jerry Boys Credits at AllMusic Official website