Canadian-born Jesse Ray Ernster followed in his parent’s footsteps by pursuing a life of music. Long before winning Grammy Awards for his work with Burna Boy, Doja Cat, and Kanye West, he spent his upbringing studying music theory and exercising proficiency on multiple instruments, and ultimately discovered his love for the process of making records. He moved to California in 2017 and began his Los Angeles journey by delivering obnoxiously colored resumes attached to donut boxes to every studio in the San Fernando Valley (there were some bites…). This hustle continued as Jesse built a reputation for himself around town as a hungry engineer with special musical taste, as well as a composer for film and TV in his spare time while pursuing mixing as a full time gig (with work including “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!” And MTV’s “The Challenge”). In 2018, he met Kanye West during a tracking session he was engineering for Tyga, and he went on to become Kanye West’s engineer on the “Yandhi”, “Jesus is King”, and “Donda” albums, and that ultimately led to a pivot solely into mixing. His lifelong dedication and love for music grants him the ability to hear the music emotionally, make artistic mix decisions creatively, and refine those sonic decisions with technical precision.