"In a way, it was the Sgt. Pepper's of hip-hop. It's a record that changed the way that people thought about putting music together. I'm not a big hip-hop historian; I just know the stuff that I worked on."
Bob Power was a pioneering engineer and producer born in Chicago in 1952 who earned degrees in music theory and jazz. After working in California on Emmy-winning television and commercial jingles, he relocated to New York in the early 1980s. In 1984, he began engineering at Calliope Studios and worked with Stetsasonic, launching his hip-hop career. Power became integral to the Native Tongues collective, engineering landmark albums including A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory, De La Soul Is Dead, and multiple Roots projects. His work earned two Grammy nominations and established him as a transformative figure in hip-hop production.
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