Dru Castro

Andrew Luis Dru Castro is a Grammy Award Winning recording engineer, producer and songwriter in Atlanta, Georgia. He has produced or engineered songs for artists such as Ciara, Keyshia Cole, Usher, R. Kelly, TPain, Trina, Jamie Foxx and India.Arie. Recently, Castro produced and wrote songs with the Grammy award winning singersongwriter India.Arie on her recently released album Testimony Vol. 2, Love amp Politics. Her 2006 album, Testimony Vol. 1, Life amp Relationship, for which Castro recorded andor produced seven songs, debuted and peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and the Top RampBHipHop Albums and was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Best RampB Album. To date Castro has worked onGrammy nominated projects See Below. In 2010 Castro won a Grammy with India.Arie as a ProducerEngineer for Best Urban Alternative Performance on the song Pearls.

Castro was born in Manhattan, New York and was raised in the Lower East Side. His father and mother, who are both of Puerto Rican descent, were also born in Manhattan. From an early age Castro grew up in a musical home, where his father played piano and was the musical director of a local church. This musical influence lead Castro to start playing piano at age 5. Castro was sent to study at Suncoast Community High School, a magnet school in Riviera Beach, Florida. While there, he was active in the Jazz, Concert and Marching bands, where he played bass and French horn respectively.

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