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Ken Caillat
Caillat during a 2012 interview
Background information
Birth name	Kenneth Douglas Caillat
Born	(1946-08-12)August 12, 1946 (age 78) San Jose, California[1]
Genres	Rock pop R&B country soul jazz
Occupation	Record producer
Years active	1971–present
Website	www.kencaillat.com

Kenneth Douglas Caillat (/kæˈleɪ/kal-AY) (born August 12, 1946) is an American record producer. He is best known for producing theFleetwood Mac albumsRumours,Tusk andMirage. He is the father of singerColbie Caillat.

Caillat was the president of 5.1 Entertainment Group Digital Production Services, which has worked on albums forBilly Idol,Frank Sinatra,Pat Benatar,Wilson Phillips,the Beach Boys,Herbie Hancock,David Becker andAlice Cooper as well asChristine McVie on her solo albumIn the Meantime, in addition to Fleetwood Mac, remastering several of their albums in 5.1 surround sound. He won aGrammy Award for Album of the Year forRumours.^[2]

In addition to production, he has been a director, studio engineer, author and musician. In 2012 he released his memoir on his experiences engineering the 1977Rumours album, calledMaking Rumours.^[3] In 2013, Caillat cofounded Sleeping Giant Music Group, LLC (a Sleeping Giant Media company) with Grammy nominated writer/producerMichael Hodges and writer/producer Kayla Morrison. In 2014, Sleeping Giant partnered withAlcon Entertainment to form ASG Music Group, LLC.^[4][5]

He is the father of singer-songwriterColbie Caillat and produced her albumsCoco (2007),Breakthrough (2009),All of You (2011), andChristmas in the Sand (2012). He advised his daughter on taking up songwriting from an early age. In an interview with the Music Producers Forum,^[6] he recalls telling a young Colbie, "If you're really going to be a singer, then you have two choices, you're going to have to write your own songs, or you're going to have to buy somebody else's."

In January 2016, Caillat, who had a passion for the history of theRecord Plant studio inSausalito, California, whereRumours had been recorded, realized the necessity for its restoration. After developing what was thought to be a more sustainable business model for the music industry, he incorporated under the nameMarin Music Project at the Record Plant in January 2017.^[7]

In 2024, Caillat sued the creators of the 2023 Tony-Award-winning playStereophonic, alleging that they adapted his memoirMaking Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album without permission.^[8]

• How Time Flys (1973) –David Ossman (Engineer)
• Fairytale (1965) –Donovan (Producer)
• Basket of Light (1969) –Pentangle (Executive producer)
• Astrud Gilberto Now (1972) –Astrud Gilberto (Executive producer)
• ’’ “It Never Rains in Southern California" (1972) [Albert Hammond] (demo engineer)
• ’’ “Bang a Gong” (1972) [T-Rex Marc Boland] (demo engineer)
• Love Music (1973) –Sergio Mendes (Assistant)
• "Poetry Man" [Phoebe Snow](1973) demo Wally Heider Recording Studio 4 (demo Engineer)
• The Phoenix Concerts (1974) –John Stewart (Assistant engineer, engineer)
• ’’ “You Are a Star" (1974) [Bernie Taupin with the Hudson Brothers] (engineer)
• Where We All Belong (1974) –The Marshall Tucker Band (Engineer)
• ’’ “Venus and Mars”(Nov 1974) [Paul McCartney and Wings] (engineer strings, sid sharp arr.)
• Elevation (1973) –Pharoah Sanders (Engineer)
• Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band, Vol. 1 (1975) –Gabby Pahinui (Engineer)
• The Waimea Music Festival (1974) (Engineer, Mixer)
• Searchin' for a Rainbow (1975) – The Marshall Tucker Band (Engineer)
• Amazonas (1975) –Cal Tjader (Remixing, engineer)
• Cool Rasta (1976) –The Heptones (Executive producer)
• Greatest Stories Live (1976) –Harry Chapin (Engineer)
• Look at Me Now –The Buckeye Politicians (Engineer)
• Warren Zevon (1976) –Warren Zevon (Audio engineer)
• Rumours (1977) – Fleetwood Mac (Producer, Engineer, Mastering); WinnerGrammy Award for Album of the Year.
• Germfree Adolescents (1978) –X-Ray Spex (Executive producer)
• Tusk (1979) – Fleetwood Mac (producer, Remastering, engineer)
• Distant Shores (1980) –Robbie Patton (Engineer, producer)
• Live (1980) – Fleetwood Mac (producer, Engineer, mixing)
• Mirage (1982) – Fleetwood Mac (Engineer, producer)
• Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth (1982) - (Engineer, producer)
• Which One of Us Is Me (1984) – Jay Gruska (Engineer)
• Dancing on the Ceiling (1986) –Lionel Richie (Special Effects, engineer)
• Bad (1987) –Michael Jackson (Engineer)
• Streamlines (1987) –Tom Scott
• "The Cockney Kids Are Innocent" onThe First, the Best and the Last (1980) –Sham 69 (Executive producer)
• "Siberian Express" (1988)David BeckerTribune (Producer, engineer)
• Live (1988) –The Dramatics (Engineer)
• Greatest Hits (1988) – Fleetwood Mac (Producer)
• Dorian's Legacy (1989) – Spencer Brewer (Engineer)
• Third Time Around (1990) -David BeckerTribune (Producer, engineer)
• Live and Improvised (1991) –Blood, Sweat & Tears (Engineer)
• Live at Ronnie Scott's (1990) –Taj Mahal (Executive producer)
• Third Time Around (1990) –David BeckerTribune (Engineer, mixing, producer)
• 25 Years – The Chain (1992) – Fleetwood Mac (Producer, engineer)
• How Far? How Fast? (1992) –Robin Frederick (Design, producer, mixing, engineer)
• Mom's (1992) –Carl Stone (Audio engineer)
• Seven Day Weekend (1992) –New York Dolls (Executive producer)
• Deaf Forever: The Best of Motörhead (2000) –Motörhead (Executive producer)
• Fiend with a Violin (1996) –The Fall (Executive producer)
• Very Best of the Searchers (1998) –The Searchers (Executive producer)
• Close to the Wind (1998) –Fairport Convention (Executive producer)
• Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (Highlights) (DVD Audio) –London Symphony Orchestra (Producer, executive producer)
• Erase the Slate (1999) –Dokken (Executive producer)
• The Little David Years (1971–1977) (1999) –George Carlin (Engineer)
• Directions: East – Directions (Executive producer)
• Directions: North – Directions (Executive producer)
• Directions: South – Directions (Executive producer)
• Directions: West – Directions (Executive producer)
• Elements: Earth – Elements (Executive producer, producer)
• Elements: Spirit – Elements (Executive producer, producer)
• Elements: Water – Elements (Executive producer, producer)
• Bare Bones (1999) –Wishbone Ash (Executive producer)
• Then and Now (2000) –Lynyrd Skynyrd (Executive producer, mixing)
• Coco (2007) –Colbie Caillat (Executive producer, mixing, producer, audio production)
• Breakthrough (2009) – Colbie Caillat (Mixing, producer, engineer, Rhythm Arrangements, executive producer)
• All of You (2011) – Colbie Caillat (producer)
• Christmas in the Sand (2012) – Colbie Caillat (producer)
• Rumours 5.1 Fleetwood Mac(2015)
• Mirage 5.1 Fleetwood Mac(2016)

• Official website
• Fleetwood Mac Official site
• 5.1 Entertainment Group,MIX Magazine
• Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing Presents "Approaching the First 5.1 Mix" Business Wire, December 6, 2000

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