Mikaelin Bluespruce

Mikaelin 'Blue' Bluespruce is an American, New York City based mix engineer and record producer. He has worked with notable artists of many different genres including: Solange Knowles, Nas, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Skepta, Dev Hynes, Marsha Ambrosius, Alloe Blacc, Common, & Prince Royce.

Blue was one of the primary recording engineers, and the mixing engineer for Solange's critically acclaimed A Seat At The Table album,^[1] which debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.^[2] Blue was awarded a Grammy certificate for his work on the Cranes In The Sky, which won a Grammy for "Best R&B Performance" at the 2017 Grammy Awards.^[3]

For The Hamilton Mixtape, Blue mixed songs for Hip Hop artists Nas, Dave East, Common & Black Thought, as well as famed soul singer Alloe Blacc, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of Broadway's Hamilton.^[4] The mixtape also debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200.^[5]

Biography

Blue moved to New York from Seattle at the age of 18, as a DJ with aspirations of becoming a studio engineer. In 2006 he graduated with Honors from New York University's program for Music Technology, and worked as an intern at Jay-Z & Just Blaze's Baseline Studios. After doing years of freelance work in studios such as Quad and Sony, he took the position of Head Engineer at Lounge Studios, in midtown Manhattan.