Grammy Award winner Mike Dean is renowned for providing the secret sauce to the world’s biggest artists. Whether they need a veteran producer’s touch, a keen ear for engineering and mixing, or even a searing guitar solo, he’s who they turn to. His career began in the early ‘90s with legacy-making work for southern rap icons—and fellow Texas natives—Scarface, UGK, and Devin the Dude. Since then, Dean has evolved to blend hip-hop, pop, experimental rock, and soul into a potent concoction that’s both malleable and uniquely his own.