Young Guru
Young Guru | |
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Young Guru at New York Comic Con, October 2014 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Gimel Androus Keaton |
| Born | February 27, 1974 Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop |
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| Years active | 1996–present |
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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. 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".