Joel Moss , a seven-time Grammy-winning producer, engineer and mixer who worked on dozens of films from Pretty in Pink and Little Shop of Horrors to City Slickers, A Few Good Men and Chicago, has died. He was 79.

His family told Deadline that Moss died September 15 in Saratoga Springs, NY, but did not specify a cause.

Born on May 11, 1946, in Detroit, Moss was a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences became a go-to engineer for recording many top film scores. Along with those listed above, he worked on Footloose, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sister Act, Sleepless in Seattle, Mosquito Coast, Dead Poets Society, Gorillas in the Mist and dozens of others.

He amassed 11 career Grammy nominations, winning Album of the Year and another for Ray Charles’ 2004

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