# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-padgham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:50.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-padgham"
name: "Hugh Padgham"
slug: "hugh-padgham"
description: "Hugh Charles Padgham is an English record producer and audio engineer. He has won four Grammy Awards, for Producer of the Year and Album of the Year for 1985, Record of the Year for 1990, and Engineer of the Year for 1993. Padgham's co-productions include hits by Phil Collins, XTC, Genesis, the Human League, Sting, and the Police. He pioneered the \"gated reverb\" drum sound used most famously on Collins' 1981 song \"In the Air Tonight\"."
tagline: "British sound engineer and music producer (born 1955)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.88042933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0655671/"
    handle:    "nm0655671"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2tFojFgpu9xoQ04HsTZMDl"
    handle:    "2tFojFgpu9xoQ04HsTZMDl"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AC_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "هوج پادجام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%AF%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "هیو پدقام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "هیو پدگام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ヒュー・パジャム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%9C%B4_%ED%8C%A8%EB%8D%A4"
    title: "휴 패덤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Padgham"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%8D%D0%B4%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A5%D1%8C%D1%8E"
    title: "Пэдхам, Хью"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d8297d32-7a44-4d8a-95ae-7b525f6e46d5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q968524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/933453"
    title: "Hugh Padgham"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump