Danny Leake

Jazz - funk guitarist - studio engineer Danny Leake (born in Chicago, died 27th April 2020) was already occasionally working as a session musician when he graduated from Lane Tech High School in 1969, but was soon moving towards an interest in audio engineering. Over the course of his career, he worked with the likes of Janet Jackson, Diana Ross, Kanye West, The Police, Willie Nelson, Johnny Gill, Brian McKnight, Hank Williams, Jr., Natalie Cole, Candlebox, Lupe Fiasco, Natalie Cole and dozens more, bringing a keen ear and thoughtful perfectionism to his work. Felled by a heart attack while enroute to a dialysis appointment, Leake was 69.