Kofi Mensah

Grammy-nominated music producer and audio engineer from Accra who has worked with artists across Afrobeats, hip-hop, and electronic music. Started making beats on a cracked copy of FL Studio at 14, got a scholarship to Berklee, and spent 6 years as a staff engineer at Electric Lady Studios in NYC before going independent. Has credits on 40+ albums and produced a track that hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Writes about music production, the economics of streaming, why modern music sounds the way it does (loudness wars, auto-tune, sample clearance), and how AI is about to change everything. Runs a free production workshop for kids in Accra every summer. Has strong opinions about compression ratios and will demonstrate them at any available mixing console.