WCS Conference 2014: Meet Conference Guest Ken Caillat Ken Caillat’s recordings have sold over 50 million copies. His record production and engineering efforts earned him numerous Grammy nominations and include an Album of the Year Grammy and Best Engineered Album Grammy Nomination for Fleetwood Mac Rumours, the third largest selling,album of all time. In addition to engineering and producing other Fleetwod Mac titles; Tusk, Mirage, Live, and The Chain Box Set, his credits also include such stars as Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson as well as Christine McVie’s solo album, “In the Meantime” (2002), her first album in over 10 years. Ken has also been a director, author and musician. In 2012 he released his memoir on his experiences co-producing and engineering the 1977 Rumours album, called Making Rumours. He is the father of singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat and worked to develop and promote her singing career. He became Executive Producer, co-producer and co-mixer for his daughters Platinum selling album, Coco for UMG Music (2007), Breakthrough (2009) #1 record on Billboard Record Charts, and All of You (2011). In 2012 Ken founded Sleeping Giant Records, so he could help other talented kids like Colbie to make a career in music. In 2014 Sleeping Giant media Group closed a deal with Alcon Entertainment, to provide his music to Alcon’s films and Television, starting with Johnny Depp’s Sci-Fi thriller, “Trancendence” and the touching film DolphinTale 2. 2014 looks like it will be a banner year. Sleeping Giant has announced plans to open weekend conferences called Artist-Max Professional Artist Development Workshops. Slated for 2015 The opening of Landmark Music Education, a non- profit post graduate Mentor driven Landmark Performing Arts Academy will be the first U.S based Finishing school for recording and the performing arts.
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