"R.I.P. to one of the iLLest Engineers of all time. Thank you for various pointers in recording from D'Angelo to ATCQ's Low End Theory, Erykah Badu's Baduizm and so on!"
"Bob was the KING of the Low End. During the mid-90s to early 2000s, he either mixed or engineered on genre-defining albums including D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, Erykah Badu's Baduizm, Common's Like Water for Chocolate, and The Roots' Things Fall Apart."
Bob Power, born January 2, 1952, in Chicago, was a highly influential recording engineer and mixer who shaped the sound of hip-hop and R&B. After studying music theory and jazz, he moved to New York in 1982 and gained prominence engineering Stetasonic's debut. He became integral to The Native Tongues collective, engineering A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory and De La Soul Is Dead. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Power worked with The Soulquarians, contributing to landmark albums by D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common, and The Roots. His work on Badu's "On & On" achieved No. 1 on the R&B charts, and he received a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album. Power later became a professor at NYU's Clive Davis Institute.
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