Dan Grech-Marguerat

Grech started working at RAK Studios in St John's Wood, London as an assistant recording engineer.^[6] He worked with record producer Nigel Godrich for two years,^[6] participating on records by Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Divine Comedy, Beck and Radiohead.^[7]

In 2006, he mixed the Scissor Sisters second album Ta-Dah, including the single I Don't Feel Like Dancin',^[8] co-written by Elton John, which went to number one in 8 countries, top 10 in 20 countries,^[9] and was certified 2x platinum in the UK. Grech initially joined the project to assist with recording live instruments but eventually took on a larger role, including mixing.^[10] Later that year, Grech mixed the debut record for the band Dragonette,^[11] starting a long-term relationship with the band.

In 2007, Grech produced two tracks for the Radio 1 Established 1967^[12] anniversary album, one for The Kooks and one for The Kaiser Chiefs.^[13] He went on to produce several tracks for The Kooks second album Konk,^[14] and also mixed the Moby album 'Last Night.^[7]

In 2009, Grech won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album for engineering Radiohead's In Rainbows. He also received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year for his work on the album.^[1]

In 2010, Grech produced the debut album for The Vaccines, What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?.^[15][16]

Grech mixed the majority of Lana Del Rey's 2012 album Born to Die,^[5] which was the fifth best-selling album in the world that year. In 2025, it became the longest charting album by a female artist in Billboard 200 history at 618 weeks.^[17] Grech produced and mixed Keane's fourth studio album 'Strangeland', released in 2012.^[18]

In 2013, Grech produced Long Way Down, the debut record for Tom Odell and winner of the BRITs Critics Choice Award.^[19] Grech also produced Tom Odell’s 2012 debut single “Another Love”, which went viral on TikTok and other social media platforms ten years after its release,^[20] and as of February 2026 is the 23rd most streamed song in the world on Spotify, with over 3.4 billion streams.^[21]

In 2013, Grech also produced The Brink, the second album for the Australian band The Jezabels.^[22][23] In 2014, Grech worked with Liverpool-based guitar band Circa Waves. He produced and mixed their debut album which entered the UK charts at number 10 in April 2015.^[24] Singles from the album included Fossils and T-Shirt Weather. In 2015, he produced and mixed the Birdy and Rhodes duet Let It All Go.^[25] At the start of 2016, Grech worked with Mumford & Sons. He recorded the Johannesburg EP in South Africa with the band.^[26]

Grech's releases in 2017 included Liam Gallagher's debut solo album As You Were, he produced 8 of the 12 tracks including the single For What It's Worth.^[2] On working with Grech, Gallagher said, “I’ll play him a tune very badly and he’ll go, ‘Yeah, I get where you’re coming from’ and get the acoustics down and away we go.”^[27][28] That year, he also mixed The Killers' single "The Man",^[5] which reached number one on the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart,^[29] and went platinum in the US in 2024.^[30] In 2018, Grech mixed Staying at Tamara's, George Ezra's second album, including the single "Paradise".^[31] In the same year, he also mixed releases for Rae Morris, Mikky Ekko, and Tom Grennan.^[32]

Grech has worked frequently with country pop singer Kelsea Ballerini. He mixed her 2020 album Kelsea, which includes duets with Halsey, Shania Twain, and Kenny Chesney.^[2] He received a 2022 CMA Award nomination for Single of the Year for that album's single "Half of My Hometown".^[33] He mixed the 2021 single "I Quit Drinking" by Ballerini and LANY, which was certified platinum in the US in 2026.^[34] Grech mixed Ballerini's 2023 album Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, earning a CMA Award nomination for Album of the Year for his work on the album,^[35] which was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album.^[36] Grech mixed five songs on Ballerini's 2024 album Patterns, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Country Album.^[36]

Grech has additional production and live credits on 2021's Rag'n'Bone Man and Pink single Anywhere Away From Here. He contributed additional production and mixing for the radio single and worked with the NHS choir on the live performance at the Brit Awards.^[37] In 2021, Grech produced Tom Grennan's album Evering Road,^[38] and mixed the 2021 Muna and Phoebe Bridgers single "Silk Chiffon".^[2] Also that year, he began working with Sam Ryder,^[39] mixing Ryder's debut EP Sun’s Gonna Rise. Grech mixed and produced the UK Eurovision entry song for 2022, Ryder's There's Nothing but Space, Man!.^[40][41]

Grech won Mix Engineer of the Year at the 2021 Music Producers Guild Awards,^[42] and was nominated for the award in 2022,^[43] 2023,^[44] and 2024.^[45]

Grech mixed several tracks on Tom Grennan's 2025 album Everywhere I Went, Led Me to Where I Didn't Want to Be, including the singles "Boys Don't Cry" and "Full Attention".^[46] The album reached number one on the Scottish Albums Chart^[47] and UK Albums Chart.^[48]