
'Craft is what sustains you when art fails you.'
What is it like to be present as pop history is being recorded? Someone who knows only too well is Susan Rogers, who sat on the other side of the glass from Prince as he recorded many of his classic albums, including ‘Purple Rain’, ‘Around the World in a Day’, and ‘Sign o’ the Times’.
Susan was Prince’s sound engineer in the 80s, and in an extraordinary career, also worked with David Byrne, the Barenaked Ladies and Jeff Black to name just a few.
Then in 2000, after two decades she quit the industry to earn a doctorate in psychology. She’s now a professor of music at Berklee College in Boston, and is being awarded the Music Producers Guild’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’– the first woman to ever win the award and she has some advice for women wanting to break into the tech side of the music industry
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