Mike Shipley | |
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 Shipley in 2013 | |
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| Birth name | Michael Shipley |
| Born | 7 October 1956 Sydney, Australia |
| Origin | London, England |
| Died | 25 July 2013 (aged 56) Studio City, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Years active | 1976–2013 |
Michael Shipley (7 October 1956 – 25 July 2013) was an Australian mixing engineer, audio engineer, and record producer. Shipley's music career spanned more than 30 years – mostly working in Los Angeles. At the Grammy Awards of 2012 he won the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category for his joint work on Paper Airplane (April 2011), by Alison Krauss and Union Station. Shipley died in July 2013, aged 56, of an apparent suicide.