Rafa Sardina Takes Home the Grammy for Best Engineered Album "No Es Lo Mismo" by Warner's superstar Alejandro Sanz won four more awards at the Fifth Latin Grammys held on September 1st, 2004 Best Album Of The Year Record Of The Year for the album's title track Song Of The Year Best Male Pop Vocal Album Best Engineered Album

L-R: Rafa Sardina at the 5th Latin Grammy Awards, Los Angeles; Alejandro Sanz

Sept 10, 2004, Los Angeles, CA -- Alejandro Sanz' "No Es Lo Mismo" swept the awards show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles last week, taking home trophies for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Album. Additionally, "No es lo Mismo" won the award for best-engineered album, an honor that went to engineers Rafa Sardina and Mick Guzauski.

Rafa who engineered the entire album between Miami, Spain and Los Angeles accepted his award during the pre-telecast. "It was truly a pleasure working with Alejandro, Lulo and all the cast of great session players. Alejandro is an amazingly talented songwriter and musician and his production team made my work sound as good as it gets," says Sardina.

Sanz's co-producer Lulo Perez accepted the award for him, while backstage, the album's engineer, Bob Ludwig said, "I've been in the field for 30 years and to have Alejandro come through for me is great."

Additionally, Sardina won Best Engineering Award during Music Awards held in Madrid, Spain earlier this year. The Latin Grammy for best engineer will be Rafa's 6th Grammy win with total of 12 nominations for the mixer/engineer to-date.

Sanz who was touring in Spain during the Grammy ceremony, adds the four trophies to a shelf that already holds seven previous Latin Grammys; the 11 awards make him the top Latin Grammy winner of all time.The album won a Grammy in the best Latin Pop category earlier this year during the Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles Earlier In July, Sanz, Maria Rita (who took 3 Latin Grammys) and octogenarian Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes shared honors as the most nominated performers for the show, including best-album for Sanz's No Es Lo Mismo.

The 5th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards were supported on radio via Univision Radio (the official Spanish-language radio network of the Latin GRAMMY Awards), and highlighted on the Internet at www.latingrammy.terra.com (the official online partner of the Latin GRAMMY Awards). For a complete list of winners, click here.

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Seven-time Grammy Award winner engineer/mixer Rafa Sardina has an eclectic and impressive client list that includes artists: Alejandro Sanz, Macy Gray, Jessy Moss, Dru Hill, Kina, Mariah Carey, Luis Miguel, Soul Coughing, Angie Stone, Juan Gabriel, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Indian legend Yesudas, score for Oliver Stone film "Any Given Sunday," and IMAX movie "Michael Jordan- To The Max."

Sardina engineered Alejandro Sanz' Grammy winning Album, No Es Lo Mismo (Best Latin Pop Album 2004 Vocal or Instrumental) and mixed five tracks for "33" (certified Platinum X5 and nominated "Best Latin Pop Album" 2004) by international artist, Luis Miguel. Sardina engineered "Meditteraneo" for Rendez Vous artist Marc Antoine and mixed Antonio Orozco's new album "El Principio Del Comienzo" (New Beginning) for Universal Music (Certified Platinum and Number One In Spain in its first week of release)!
Sardina also produced/mixed and engineered "Sin Querer" for singer/songwriter Ana Pozas' second album including the song "Si Es Por Tí" featuring a duo with Ana and the new Latin pop sensation, Alex Ubago.

An avid ProTool user (HD system upgrade) Rafa is currently working on an International Pop Star's most anticipated record in a Hollywood studio.
Sardina is always developing new artists and working in his private new studio, After Hours, due to go on-line later this year. Sardina enjoys Apogee, Manley, DUY , JBL, Avalon and Audio Technica products.

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