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At nineteen he became interested in learning to work with sound when he saw his friends using the sound board at a jazz show happening where he worked. Eventually he was asked to go along on road shows with musicians as a sound engineer. He wanted to work in the studio and decided to go to recording school, eventually getting a job at a Manhattan studio. He began by working with two senior engineers, and later began to work on his own with musicians and artists such as Prince, and LL cool J. 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