Dana Jon Chappelle is a Grammy Award Winning Recording Engineer and Mixer based in Los Angeles, California.
Dana Jon grew up in Marin County, California.
Marin County was a vortex of music during the 60’s and 70’s - best known as the home of the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Dana took an interest in the music industry at a very young age. When he was 8 years old, the Beatles inspired him to pick up the guitar. When he was 15, he would hitchhike across the Golden Gate Bridge in to San Fransisco to explore recording studios, look for jobs in studios and immerse himself in the recording industry.
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas
In 1994, hot summer days were spent recording the Merry Christmas Album in New York at the Hit Factory. Dana Jon remembers the little Christmas tree in the control room to create Christmas magic. He recorded seven of the ten songs on the album. Merry Christmas is the iconic holiday album year after year.
New Album Out Now
The Rarities is the upcoming eighth compilation album by American singer-songwriter and producer Mariah Carey, released on October 2, 2020, by Columbia and Legacy Records. It was issued as part of "#MC30", a promotional campaign marking the 30th anniversary of Carey's self-titled debut studio album, Mariah Carey (1990), and will coincide with her upcoming memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey (2020). Featuring previously unreleased material "with personal relevance and meaning" to Carey—some of which are discussed in her memoir—the album will also include a second disc consisting of audio from her March 7, 1996, live performance at the Tokyo Dome during her Daydream World Tour. A Blu-ray disc featuring enhanced video footage from the concert will be released exclusively in Japan. Dana Jon recorded 9 songs on Rarities Side A and the entire live performance at the Tokyo Dome in 1996 on Side B.
You Tube
Dana Jon, Engineers and Mixes In-Studio, Live Streaming, Live Television Performances, Live Concerts and DVDs.
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey made history during her “Daydream Tour”, Live at the Tokyo Dome. The concerts took place March 7th, 10th and 14th of 1996. The tickets for her three Tokyo Dome concerts, totaling over 150,000 seats, sold out in under 3 hours, making it the fastest selling show in the Tokyo Dome's history. The full show, "Mariah Carey - Live at the Tokyo Dome" was released on 3 October 2020. Dana Jon recorded all three nights at the Tokyo Dome.
President Obama
President Obama answers questions during a virtual interview with Google+ and Americans from around the country to discuss his State of the Union Address. February 14, 2013. Dana Jon mixed feeds from 9 locations across the nation - including President Obama from the White House.
Mariah Carey Just Revealed She Made A Secret Grunge Album In The ’90s, And It’s Pretty Good
by JARED RICHARDS - Junkee
Ahead of the release of her memoir later this week, Mariah Carey has shared an excerpt revealing she worked and appears uncredited on a little-known alternative grunge album from the mid-’90s, doing so “just for laughs”. On Twitter, Carey shared an excerpt from her pending memoir The Meaning Of Mariah Carey which revealed her work on Chick’s sole album Someone’s Ugly Daughter, released in 1995. In it, she reveals she wrote and recorded it as a joke while she worked on Daydreams, but soon “started to love” it and that it helped ‘get her through some dark days’. “I’d bring my little alt-rock song to the band and hum a silly guitar riff,” she writes. “They would pick it up and we would record it immediately. It was irreverent, raw, and urgent, and the band got into it. I actually started to love some of the songs.” Carey shared a snippet of Chick track ‘Hermit’ in the Tweet, where she provides a “hidden layer” of vocals underneath Chick’s lead Clarissa Dane, who was Carey’s roommate at the time of recording. In the excerpt, Carey says she found the grunge ‘character’ super freeing. “I would fully commit to my character. I was playing with the style of the breezy-grunge, punk-light white female singers who were popular at the time,” she writes. “You know the ones who seemed to be so carefree with their feelings and their image. They could be angry, angsty, and messy, with old shoes, wrinkled slips, and unruly eyebrows, while every move I made was so calculated and manicured.” “I wanted to break free, let loose, and express my misery — but I also wanted to laugh. I totally looked forward to doing my alter-ego band sessions after Daydream each night.” Carey isn’t credited on the album’s liner notes, though there are a few clues connecting her. Jay Healy and Dana Jon Chappelle are listed as the album’s engineers — Chappelle was Carey’s chief engineer for 14 years, and Healy worked across multiple Carey albums, too. Reviews for the album on Amazon also say there’s a “hidden element” on the album. In a statement to Pitchfork, Carey’s representatives state that the elusive chanteuse wrote, produced and provided backing vocals on every song on the album (albeit she didn’t write ‘Surrender’, a Cheap Trick cover). She also created the album artwork’s direction and directed one music video. Unfortunately, the album isn’t available on streaming services, though a handful of songs float around on YouTube. Physical copies are available on Amazon, but as of writing have been price-hiked to $970. www.junkee.com