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Tim Latham

American recording engineer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ7803805
Source-derived summary

Tim Latham (born November 18, 1966) is a Grammy Award-winning American recording engineer working in the music industry. Latham attended Berklee College of Music in the 1980s.

In 2008 Latham shared a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album with Joel Moss for their work on the recording of the Broadway theatre production of In The Heights.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tim Latham” is american recording engineer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Latham, American and recording, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988. For this dossier, Latham, American and recording is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american recording engineer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7803805. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966 and 2008.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Tim Latham” 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.