Stephen George - Engineer
Stephen George a/k/a Stevo, began his career in the music business as a local Chicago musician. Today, his name appears on over 100 million records sold. He has earned close to fifty gold & platinum records along with numerous Grammy awards/nominations.
In 1980 Al Jourgensen formed Ministry teaming up with George on drums. In ‘81 they released “Cold Life” on the legendary Wax Trax Records. The following year Clive Davis signed Ministry to his Arista label. George continued touring and recording with the band for four more releases.
By ‘84 George formed his own band Colortone, playing drums, producing, engineering and co-writing their debut LP on Pasha/CBS Records. Throughout the 80’s, George played drums on numerous major label releases, including solo projects by Ric Ocasek and Elliot Easton of The Cars, Jane Wiedlin of The Go Go’s and recordings with Iggy Pop and others.
1989 - 1998 Stephen worked as Chief Engineer at Zomba / Jive Record’s “Battery Studios Chicago”, during this time George perfected his craft at making hit records, then entering into the world as one of the most prominent and in demand creative talents in the industry. At Battery, George worked with some of the biggest artists and producers of the time, including Zomba’s founder Clive Calder, Jive’s VP of A&R Wayne Williams, Common, Mary J. Blige, Luther Vandross, Will Smith and copious others. 1994 – 98 found Stephen, traveling the world, working exclusively as R. Kelly’s programmer, mixer and engineer.
December 1998 George worked with some of the world’s finest producers and artists, from Hip Hop to Pop, R&B to Gospel and back to Rock: Lil Jon, Max Martin, Michael Jackson, Usher, The McClurkins, Ric Ocasek, and Maroon 5 to name a few. Still mixing records for Zomba, but now working with every major label and numerous independents on countless records.
In 2018, Stephen relocates to Los Angeles, where he now has taken on the job as re-recording mixer, sound designer for film and theatre, recording engineer for audio books and podcasts and continuing his work on music projects. He is grateful to be part of The Invisible Studios family.