Dan Grech-Marguerat

Dan Grech-Marguerat
Born (1981-07-11) 11 July 1981
Bedford, England
Other namesDan Grech
Occupations
Years active2001-present
Known forAudio mixing
Awards
Websitedan-grech.com

Daniel James Grech-Marguerat (born 11 July 1981), is an English-Maltese record producer, mixer, and engineer. He is based in East London.[2]

Grech has worked with artists including The Killers, Halsey, Lana Del Rey, Liam Gallagher, Kelsea Ballerini, Tom Odell, Mumford & Sons, Keane, and Moby.[3][4][5] He won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album for his work on Radiohead's In Rainbows.[1]

Career

Grech started working at RAK Studios in St John's Wood, London as an assistant recording engineer.[6] He worked with record producer Nigel Godrich for two years,[6] participating on records by Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Divine Comedy, Beck and Radiohead.[7]

In 2006, he mixed the Scissor Sisters second album Ta-Dah, including the single I Don't Feel Like Dancin',[8] co-written by Elton John, which went to number one in 8 countries, top 10 in 20 countries,[9] and was certified 2x platinum in the UK. Grech initially joined the project to assist with recording live instruments but eventually took on a larger role, including mixing.[10] Later that year, Grech mixed the debut record for the band Dragonette,[11] starting a long-term relationship with the band.

In 2007, Grech produced two tracks for the Radio 1 Established 1967[12] anniversary album, one for The Kooks and one for The Kaiser Chiefs.[13] He went on to produce several tracks for The Kooks second album Konk,[14] and also mixed the Moby album 'Last Night.[7]

In 2009, Grech won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album for engineering Radiohead's In Rainbows. He also received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year for his work on the album.[1]

In 2010, Grech produced the debut album for The Vaccines, What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?.[15][16]

Grech mixed the majority of Lana Del Rey's 2012 album Born to Die,[5] which was the fifth best-selling album in the world that year. In 2025, it became the longest charting album by a female artist in Billboard 200 history at 618 weeks.[17] Grech produced and mixed Keane's fourth studio album 'Strangeland', released in 2012.[18]

In 2013, Grech produced Long Way Down, the debut record for Tom Odell and winner of the BRITs Critics Choice Award.[19] Grech also produced Tom Odell’s 2012 debut single “Another Love”, which went viral on TikTok and other social media platforms ten years after its release,[20] and as of February 2026 is the 23rd most streamed song in the world on Spotify, with over 3.4 billion streams.[21]

In 2013, Grech also produced The Brink, the second album for the Australian band The Jezabels.[22][23] In 2014, Grech worked with Liverpool-based guitar band Circa Waves. He produced and mixed their debut album which entered the UK charts at number 10 in April 2015.[24] Singles from the album included Fossils and T-Shirt Weather. In 2015, he produced and mixed the Birdy and Rhodes duet Let It All Go.[25] At the start of 2016, Grech worked with Mumford & Sons. He recorded the Johannesburg EP in South Africa with the band.[26]

Grech's releases in 2017 included Liam Gallagher's debut solo album As You Were, he produced 8 of the 12 tracks including the single For What It's Worth.[2] On working with Grech, Gallagher said, “I’ll play him a tune very badly and he’ll go, ‘Yeah, I get where you’re coming from’ and get the acoustics down and away we go.”[27][28] That year, he also mixed The Killers' single "The Man",[5] which reached number one on the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart,[29] and went platinum in the US in 2024.[30] In 2018, Grech mixed Staying at Tamara's, George Ezra's second album, including the single "Paradise".[31] In the same year, he also mixed releases for Rae Morris, Mikky Ekko, and Tom Grennan.[32]

Grech has worked frequently with country pop singer Kelsea Ballerini. He mixed her 2020 album Kelsea, which includes duets with Halsey, Shania Twain, and Kenny Chesney.[2] He received a 2022 CMA Award nomination for Single of the Year for that album's single "Half of My Hometown".[33] He mixed the 2021 single "I Quit Drinking" by Ballerini and LANY, which was certified platinum in the US in 2026.[34] Grech mixed Ballerini's 2023 album Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, earning a CMA Award nomination for Album of the Year for his work on the album,[35] which was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album.[36] Grech mixed five songs on Ballerini's 2024 album Patterns, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Country Album.[36]

Grech has additional production and live credits on 2021's Rag'n'Bone Man and Pink single Anywhere Away From Here. He contributed additional production and mixing for the radio single and worked with the NHS choir on the live performance at the Brit Awards.[37] In 2021, Grech produced Tom Grennan's album Evering Road,[38] and mixed the 2021 Muna and Phoebe Bridgers single "Silk Chiffon".[2] Also that year, he began working with Sam Ryder,[39] mixing Ryder's debut EP Sun’s Gonna Rise. Grech mixed and produced the UK Eurovision entry song for 2022, Ryder's There's Nothing but Space, Man!.[40][41]

Grech won Mix Engineer of the Year at the 2021 Music Producers Guild Awards,[42] and was nominated for the award in 2022,[43] 2023,[44] and 2024.[45]

Grech mixed several tracks on Tom Grennan's 2025 album Everywhere I Went, Led Me to Where I Didn't Want to Be, including the singles "Boys Don't Cry" and "Full Attention".[46] The album reached number one on the Scottish Albums Chart[47] and UK Albums Chart.[48]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Work Category Result
2009 Grammy Awards Best Alternative Music Album In Rainbows by Radiohead Won[1]
Album of the Year Nominated[1]
2021 MPG Awards Mix Engineer of the Year Self Won[42]
2022 Nominated[43]
CMA Awards Single of the Year "Half of My Hometown" by Kelsea Ballerini and Kenny Chesney Nominated[33]
2023 MPG Awards Mix Engineer of the Year Self Nominated[44]
CMA Awards Album of the Year Rolling Up the Welcome Mat by Kelsea Ballerini Nominated[35]
2024 MPG Awards Mix Engineer of the Year Self Nominated[45]

Discography

Year Title Artist Credits
2001 Amnesiac Radiohead Engineer
2005 The Roads Don't Love You Gemma Hayes Mixing
2006 Ta-Dah Scissor Sisters Additional Producer, Mixing
Control GoodBooks Producer, Mixing
2007 In Rainbows Radiohead Engineer
Track for 40 years of Radio 1 Kaiser Chiefs Producer, Mixing
Galore Dragonette Mixing
2008 Last Night Moby Mixing
2009 Fixin to Thrill Dragonette Co-Producer, Mixing
Radio Wars Howling Bells Producer
Sam Sparro Sam Sparro Mixing
Slow Attack Brett Anderson Mixing
Konk The Kooks Producer, Mixing
2010 Voyage The Sound of Arrows Additional Producer, Mixing
Penguin Prison Penguin Prison Additional Producer, Mixing
2011 What You Wanted Spector Producer, Mixing
Remixes Hurts Mixing
What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? The Vaccines Producer
Bad Dream Hotline Foe Mixing
2012 Born to Die Lana Del Rey Mixing
Never Live Another Yesterday The Penelopes Mixing
Strangeland Keane Producer, Mixing
Songs from Another Love EP Tom Odell Producer
Long Way Down Tom Odell Producer
2013 Exile Hurts Producer
Track "Bros" Wolf Alice Mixed
Rituals Fenech-Soler Mixed
2014 The Brink The Jezabels Producer
"Real Love" Tom Odell Co Produced and Mixed
2015 Young Chasers Circa Waves Producer
Badlands Halsey Mixing
Josef Salvat Josef Salvat Mixing
"Let It All Go" Birdy & Rhodes Additional Production, Mixing
White Light Shura Mixing
2016 Johannesburg Mumford and Sons Additional Production, Mixing
FMA Grace Additional Production, Mixing
Kindly Now Keaton Henson Production & Mixing
White Tiger Izzy Bizu Producer
Remember Us to Life Regina Spektor Mixing
2017 As You Were Liam Gallagher Produced
About U MUNA Additional Production & Mixing
"Waves" Dean Lewis Additional Production & Mixing
"The Man" The Killers Mixing
2018 Lighting Matches Tom Grennan Mixing
Staying at Tamara's George Ezra Mixing
"There You Are" Zayn Additional Production & Mixing
Only Ticket Home Gavin James Mixing
Someone Out There Rae Morris Mixing
Fame Mikky Ekko Mixing
2019 404 Barns Courtney Additional Production & Mixing
Dedicated Carly Rae Jepsen Mixing
Jade Bird Jade Bird Mixing
You James Arthur Mixing
"Lazy" Kylie & The Vaccines Production & Mixing
Love + Fear Marina Mixing
My Name Is Michael Holbrook Mika Mixing
Saves the World MUNA Mixing
False Alarm Two Door Cinema Club Mixing
2020 Possession Joywave Mixing
"What You Gonna Do???" Bastille Mixing
Rookery Giant Rooks Mixing
Kelsea Kelsea Ballerini Mixing
"Bittersweet" Lianne La Havas Mixing
Nightfall Little Big Town Mixing
Walls Louis Tomlinson Production & Mixing
Cherry Blossom The Vamps Mixing
What A Time To Be Alive Tom Walker Mixing
In A Dream Troye Sivan Mixing
2021 One Foot in Front of the Other Griff Mixing
You Signed Up for This Maisie Peters Mixing
"Anywhere Away from Here" - Radio Mix Rag n Bone Man & Pink Production & Mixing
Evering Road Tom Grennan Production & Mixing
2022 Wonderful Life Two Door Cinema Club Producer
MUNA MUNA Mixing
"People Pleaser" Cat Burns Mixing
Gold Rush Kid George Ezra Mixing
Faith In The Future Louis Tomlinson Mixing
Hold The Girl Rina Sawayama Mixing
There's Nothing but Space, Man! Sam Ryder Production & Mixing
Homesick Sea Girls Mixing
History The Knocks Mixing
Night Call Years & Years Mixing
2023 Live More & Love More Cat Burns Mixing
That! Feels Good! Jessie Ware Mixing
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat Kelsea Ballerini Mixing
What Ifs & Maybes Tom Grennan Mixing[7]
Portraits Birdy Mixing
Quarter Life Crisis Baby Queen Mixing, programming
Sorry I'm Late Mae Muller Mixing, programming
Therapy Zoe Wees Mixing
This Life Take That Mixing, engineering, programming
Victory Cian Ducrot Mixing, programming
Who We Used to Be James Blunt Mixing
Drummer G Flip Mixing
2024 Vertigo Griff Mixing
& Bastille Mixing, programming, vocals
All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade The Libertines Mixing, programming
Good Neighbours Good Neighbours Mixing
How Have You Been? Giant Rooks Mixing
Patterns Kelsea Ballerini Mixing
Supernatural Barns Courtney Mixing
The Epilogue Dean Lewis Mixing
Early Twenties Cat Burns Mixing
2025 00:00 Sophie and the Giants Mixing, keyboards
Everywhere I Went, Led Me to Where I Didn't Want to Be Tom Grennan Mixing, programming
How to Be Human Cat Burns Mixing
2026 "Imposter" Louis Tomlinson Engineer, programming

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