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"To Josiah, the soul of patience and industry: God Bless and all my appreciation." —Dave Grusin

"...you turned sound into pure joy. You are the best" —Nnenna Freelon

"...the studio recording process is often an arduous and tedious one...having a great engineer like Josiah minimizes the technical things which leaves us a lot more to to create."" —Vic Juris

"Thanks for your humor, for making it so easy and for making it sound so good." —Curtis Stigers

biography

Josiah is one of live television’s preeminent music engineers.

The current 2024-25 season of "Saturday Night Live." is Josiah's 32nd year at the show and 29th as Co-Music Engineer. He won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Series or Special" for music mixing on the SNL 40th Anniversary Special," and also nominated for an Emmy for "SNL" for the previous two seasons. Josiah also received an Emmy nomination for the 1992-1993 season.

At "SNL," Josiah has mixed such artists as: Raye, Chris Stapleton, Mk.Gee Prince, Brandi Carlile, The 1975, Coldplay, Adele, Foo Fighters, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Sir Paul McCartney, Rhianna, Maren Morris, Tame Impala, Gary Clark,Jr., Margo Price, Sam Smith, Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran, Linkin Park, Beck, JayZ, Gotye, Demi Lovato, Michael Buble, Bon Iver, Florence & The Machine, The Black Eyed Peas, Dave Matthews Band, Phoenix, Linkin Park, Beck, My Chemical Romance, Arctic Monkeys, Tenacious D, Lily Allen, James Blunt, Sheryl Crow, and Shakira live on the air.
Josiah was Technical Producer for the first six “SNL” titles released on DVD.

For three seasons, Josiah was also the music and post-production audio engineer for “Last Call with Carson Daly” (NBC) until its move to Los Angeles in 2005. While at Carson Daly, Josiah mixed live performances by Green Day, The Black Eyed Peas, Kelly Clarkson, Fountains of Wayne, The Dave Matthews Band, Damien Rice, Train and The Raveonettes, Switchfoot, and Ween to name but a few.

Josiah’s television career took off in the fall of 1988 when he was recruited as music engineer for Broadway Video’s “Night Music,” hosted by David Sanborn and produced by Lorne Michaels (NBC). He has also mixed music live on the air for “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,”; “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,”; “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and the “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” telecast on NBC for which he won the local New York Emmy in 1998 for outstanding audio achievement. Josiah is also an active member of ATAS, a frequent contributor to the DTV Audio Group, and panel dicussions at both the NAB and AES conventions.

In addition to his extensive broadcast work, is equally sought after as a producer/engineer for both studio and live recordings. A three-time Grammy nominee, Josiah’s career began when he joined GRP Records as Chief Engineer and Technical Director in 1982. Among the many projects for GRP, Josiah co-produced and engineered the CD " B.B. King Live At The Apollo" which won the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1992. While at GRP, he engineered several dozen CDs and television theme songs (such as “St. Elsewhere”) for label president, Dave Grusin, and supervised post-production for concert videos. Josiah received his first two Grammy nominations while at GRP for Dave Grusin’s “Cinemagic” (1987) and “Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown” (1989) featuring David Benoit, Patti Austin, Joe Williams, Gerry Mulligan and Chick Corea.

Josiah received a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Record (non-classical)for Karrin Allyson’s “Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane” (Concord 2001), which was also nominated for best jazz vocal performance. Other artists he has recorded and/or produced include Karen Akers, Curtis Stigers Charlie Byrd, Billy Cobham, Freddie Cole, The Heath Brothers, Judy Collins, Eddie Daniels, Nnenna Freelon, (nominated for a Grammy two years in a row for Best Jazz Vocal Perfomance) Randy Goodrum, Jon Hendricks, Maureen McGovern, Marian McPartland, Diane Schuur, Dave Valentin, and Sadao Watanabe. He has been the associate producer and engineer on numerous projects for Kevin Eubanks, the former bandleader for “The Tonight Show” and in 2001 recorded a cross-over project for Metropolitan Opera star, Denyce Graves, entitled “The Lost Days” (RCA Red Seal).

Josiah entered the music business as a studio assistant in 1981 after serving as classical music director of WJHU-FM at The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), where he earned a BA in Humanities and Art History. While at Hopkins, Josiah also studied classical music engineering at The Peabody Conservatory of Music. He has been an active member of NARAS for many years, serving on the New York Chapter’s engineering committee seven times. He was also a featured panelist for the 1994 “Grammy in The Schools” program.

Josiah’s other talents include an extensive knowledge of film history and technology, including digital-cinema audio systems, and general and special format presentation.
He has traveled extensively in Europe (both Eastern and Western) as well as Northern Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, and is actually decent in conversational French.
A true born-and-bred native of New York City, Josiah resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, Barbara Friedland, their 15-year-old twins, Samuel and Sofia, and their goldendoodle, Leonardo (aka Sheldon J. Woofstein...)

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