Emmy-winning Composer • Producer • Sound Designer • Audio Engineer
Fred Weinberg has spent more than six decades creating music and sound for television, films, records, commercials, and documentaries. His work has been heard by hundreds of millions of people around the world, earning him an Emmy Award, Clio Awards, Grammy recognition, and a reputation as one of the industry’s most respected composers, producers, recording engineers, and sound designers.
But the career is only half the story.
Fred is the son of Holocaust survivors whose escape from Nazi Germany was secretly aided by an SS officer. Turned away by both the United States and Cuba, his parents eventually found refuge in Colombia, where Fred grew up as the only Jewish child in a small town, attending a Catholic school run by Marist Brothers.
At thirteen, he arrived in America aboard the Colombian coffee freighter Simón Bolívar, speaking little English, having never seen television, never ridden in an elevator, and never experienced winter. That young immigrant would eventually help shape the sound of American television and music.
Throughout an extraordinary career, Fred has worked with artists including Woody Allen, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, José Feliciano, Rubén Blades, and many others. Under the mentorship of legendary producer Phil Ramone, he expanded from engineering into record production, producing projects such as the CBS recording group Dreams.
His original electronic music album, The Weinberg Method of Nonsynthetic Electronic Rock, was rediscovered and reissued internationally decades after its original release. His Emmy-winning sound design, network television themes, documentary work, university teaching, and contributions to the analysis of the Watergate tapes as part of a research team reflect a career defined by curiosity, innovation, and craftsmanship.
Beyond the studio, Fred has devoted himself to preserving his family’s Holocaust history, donating rescued prayer books and documents to Holocaust institutions, while remaining an active lecturer, educator, and lifelong advocate for rescued animals.
Today, he is completing his memoir,
I’m Gonna Die Young… But It’s Too Late Now
the remarkable true story behind one of the most accomplished—and least-known—creative pioneers in American music and television.