Al Schmitt
As far as we know, Al Schmitt was not born in a recording studio, but he was certainly raised in one. At 8 years old, he was riding the subway into Manhattan to visit the studio where his uncle Harry was mixing sessions for the likes of Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters and Les Paul. At age 19, he would end up engineering a Duke Ellington orchestra session when his boss was unavailable. Soon after in 1958, he moved to L.A. where, for the next sixty years or so, he would become the most decorated engineer in music history, earning more than 150 gold and platinum albums and winning twenty Grammy Awards.