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Kevin Churko

Canadian record producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3195677 ↗
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Kevin Gregory Churko (born 19 January 1968) is a Canadian record producer, sound engineer and musician best known for his work with artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, Papa Roach, Modern Science, Five Finger Death Punch, Disturbed, In This Moment, Shania Twain, Hellyeah, and Skillet. He currently resides in Las Vegas, where he works out of his private studio, "The Hideout". He is the father of Canadian record producer Kane Churko.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-01-19. The account is most persuasive where Kevin, Churko and Canadian can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3195677. VIAF identifies the subject as 106247411. The Library of Congress control number is nb2010026763. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kevin Churko” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.