A Week of Grammy Nominees: Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar

Published: March 10, 2021, 9:44 p.m.

In 2019, Emily Lazar made Grammy history as the first female mastering engineer to win the award for Best Engineered Recording, Non Classical for Beck’s Colors. This year, for her work on Coldplay’s Everyday Life, Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 3, and Haim’s Women In Music Pt. III, Lazar becomes the first mastering engineer to be up for three Grammy Album of the Year nominations at once. Ahead of the awards show on March 14, she joins us to discuss her career, as well as her recently launched organization, We Are Moving The Needle, whose goal is to support women in the music industry.