Gimel keaton biography

Musical artist

Gimel Androus Keaton (born February 27, 1974), professionally better known by his pseudonym Young Guru, is an American audio engineer, record producer, disc jockey, and record executive from Wilmington, Delaware.

In 2019, Young Guru won a Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album for recording the album Everything Is Love by The Carters.

Gimel Androus Keaton, professionally better known by his pseudonym Young Guru, is an American audio engineer, record producer, disc jockey, and record executive from Wilmington, Delaware.

Gimel Keaton is known for Footprints Through Time (), The Kudeta () and The Hip-Hop Fellow ().

Gimel Androus Keaton (born February 27, ), professionally better known by his pseudonym Young Guru, is an.

GRAMMY-nominated engineer/mixer Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton was the recent guest for an installment of The Recording Academy's 5 Questions With series.

Gimel Keaton is known for Footprints Through Time (), The Kudeta () and The Hip-Hop Fellow ().

He has worked with many leading recording artists, most notably Jay-Z and Kanye West, and an April 2015 The Wall Street Journal profile called him "the most famous and successful engineer in the history of hip-hop".^[1]

Career

Young Guru acquired his moniker as a teen when he taught African history classes at a community center.

He also used his name when he began working as a DJ while still a teenager.^[2] In the early 1990s Young Guru bought his own amplifiers, lights and microphones which sparked his interest in music technology.

While a student at Howard University, he saw the earl