Lynn Fainchtein
Mexican music producer (1963–2024)
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Lynn Fainchtein (1963 – 1 March 2024) was a Mexican music producer and musical supervisor who worked in television and film.[1] She worked with Lee Daniels on the films Precious, The Butler, and The United States vs. Billie Holiday,[2] and she received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for the latter.[3] She supervised the music on Alfonso Cuarón's Golden Globe winning feature-length film Roma alongside Randall Poster.[4]
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Lynn Fainchtein | |
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Fainchtein in 2016 | |
| Born | 1963 |
| Died | (aged 61) Madrid, Spain |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Occupation | Music producer |
She was born in 1963 into a Russian-Jewish family. She studied psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and worked in radio for a decade. In 2000, she began supervising the soundtracks for feature films such as Fernando Sariñana's Mexican crime film Gimme the Power.[5]
González Iñárritu was a long-standing collaborator of Fainchtein's and she contributed to 21 Grams, Babel, and Birdman, among others.[5] She died on 1 March 2024 in Madrid, Spain, where she lived, at the age of 61.[1]