Lynn Fainchtein (1963–2024) was a music producer and musical supervisor from Spain who worked in television and film. She worked with Lee Daniels on the films Precious, The Butler, and The United States vs. Billie Holiday, and she received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for the latter. She supervised the music on Alfonso Cuarón's Golden Globe winning feature-length film Roma alongside Randall Poster.
She was born in 1963 into a Russian-Jewish family. She studied psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and worked in radio for approximately one-decade. In the year 2000 she began supervising the soundtracks for feature films such as Fernando Sariñana's Mexican crime film Gimme the Power.
González Iñárritu was a long-standing collaborator of Fainchtein's and she contributed to 21 Grams, Babel, and Birdman, among others.
References
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- Tangcay, Jazz (2021-02-26). "Recording Andra Day as Billie Holiday Was an Exercise in 'Surround' Sound". Variety (magazine). Retrieved 2024-09-17.
- "Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media The United States Vs. Billie Holiday".
- Cantor-Navas, Judy (2018-12-19). "'Roma' Music Supervisor Talks Soundtrack to Golden Globe-Winning Film: 'All of the Music Is Embedded in the Story'". ]. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
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