Steve Churchyard

Steve Churchyard is an English audio engineer and record producer who came to prominence working with the Pretenders.

Career Churchyard grew up in Surbiton He attended senior school at Surbiton Grammar school in Thames ditton whilst he and his parents resided at The Old Bull in East Sheen, a popular heavy disco venue and pub - now demolished. In 1974 he began his career as an assistant at the Orange Music recording studio in the basement of a guitar shop near London's Tin Pan Alley, where he worked for three years, moving up from tape-op, to engineer, to chief tech, to studio manager. In 2010, he won a Latin Grammy for the album Paraíso Express by Alejandro Sanz.

In 2011, Churchyard received a Grammy nomination for Katy Perry's album Teenage Dream and again in 2012 for Jason Mraz's album Love Is a Four Letter Word.