Iceland tops music producer’s bucket list
Best known to music fans as Lady Gaga’s friend and collaborator, DJ White Shadow (ne Paul Blair) is a Grammy nominee (“Born This Way”). He is also a businessman, who opened the trendy eatery Honey’s in Chicago’s West Loop, and is the North American music director for W Hotels Worldwide. This spring, he launched the opening of the W Sound Suite in Seattle.
“This studio is for people who would not have an opportunity to be in this kind of professional environment,” he says. “When I toured with Gaga, we would write songs but didn’t always have the opportunity to properly record the track. That’s where I got this idea. It’s not just for established musicians, but for anyone who wants to record in a really good environment.”
An edited version of our conversation follows. plane and having a glass of wine, I love it. I don’t think I’ll ever be jaded by it. that’s the one place that I have to go.