Mike Shipley

Mike Shipley
Shipley in 2013
Background information
Birth name	Michael Shipley
Born	(1956-10-07)7 October 1956 Sydney, Australia
Origin	London, England
Died	25 July 2013(2013-07-25) (aged 56) Studio City, Los Angeles, United States
Occupations	Mixing engineer audio engineer record producer
Instruments	Drums guitar
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.