Fred Catero

Fred Catero (February 4, 1933 – October 6, 2022) was an American record producer and engineer.[1][2] Catero was originally from New York City, where he worked for CBS Records/Columbia, recording artists such as Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Invited by producer Roy Halee, Catero moved in the 1960s to San Francisco to work for Columbia Records there.[3] In San Francisco, Catero worked on albums by Bob Dylan, Al Kooper, Tower of Power and Santana, many of these under producer David Rubinson at the Automatt.[4] He also produced and engineered recordings with Aaron Copland, Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt and Mel Tormé.[5] He also worked for the Automatt Studios, recording musicians such as Herbie Hancock [6] and Santana.  

In the 1980s he started an independent label Catero Records to focus on jazz artists. Artists on Catero Records included Laurie Antonioli and Paul Speer. In the mid-1980s, Catero was credited for getting new-age music accepted as a category of the Grammy Awards.[7]

Early Life and Education

Catero spent his early childhood with his adoptive parents Fred Catero Sr. and Rosa Perez in Jacksonville, FL. At the age of 7, his adoptive mother moved with him to New York, where they lived in the Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) neighborhood. [8] Early on, Catero showed a passion for music and an interest in sound recording and preservation. As a teenage boy in the 1940s, he began collecting radio shows mainly from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, eventually gathering a collection of almost 33,500 radio shows over his lifetime. Catero spent hours in his spare time working precisely restoring his collection of radio shows to an acceptable audio quality. [8]

References
  1. "New Age Music Gets Its Own Grammies". Spokesman-Review. December 21, 1986. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  2. "Obituary Fred Catero". The Neptune Society of Northern California. Belmont, CA. October 6, 2022. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  3. "Man in Motion - Fred Catero". Mix. October 2, 2006. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  4. "Billboard Hot 100". Billboard. November 14, 1970. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  5. "Fred Catero - Oral History Information". Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  6. Head Hunters. ISBN 978-0-472-03448-2.
  7. Protzman, Bob (January 4, 1987). "Grammy goes yuppie with new age category". Chicago Tribune, page 55.
  8. "Fred Catero Obituary (1933 - 2022) - Legacy Remembers". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-03-21.


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