Michael Phillip Wojewoda
Template:Short description Template:Infobox musical artist Michael Phillip Wojewoda is a Canadian record producer and musician. He has been nominated for eight Juno Awards<ref name="Inc.2000">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and has received one for Recording Engineer of the Year and one for Producer of the Year.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
History
Wojewoda began recording bands in 1977, working in the basement of his mother's beauty salon and using rudimentary equipment.<ref name=":0" /> In 1985, he produced the 2016 Polaris Music Prize and 2017 Polaris Music Prize Heritage Prize nominated album To Sir With Hate by Fifth Column. He has produced several critically and commercially successful Canadian albums of the 1990s, including Barenaked Ladies' Gordon, Spirit of the West's Faithlift, Ashley MacIsaac's Hi™ How Are You Today? and Rheostatics' Whale Music. Wojewoda won a Juno Award in 1994 for best engineer, in 1995, for best producer and again in 2008 for the Barenaked Ladies' Snacktime!.<ref name="junoawards.ca"/>
His credits include albums for The Waltons, Doughboys, Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Change of Heart, Fifth Column, Great Big Sea, Northern Haze, Riit and The Jerry Cans.<ref name="allmusic.com"/>
He replaced Don Kerr as drummer for the Rheostatics in 2001,<ref name="chartattack.com"/> and remained with the band until their dissolution in 2007.<ref name=":0" />
He was one of the producers, alongside Jon Levine and Chris Birkett, of Buffy Sainte-Marie's Polaris Music Prize-winning 2015 album Power in the Blood.<ref>"Buffy Sainte-Marie Returns with 'Power in the Blood'". Exclaim!, March 17, 2015.</ref>
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- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- Canadian record producers
- Canadian indie rock musicians
- Musicians from Toronto
- Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award winners
- Canadian people of Polish descent
- Rheostatics members
- Canadian rock drummers
- Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year winners