Dan Nigro is awarded Producer Of The Year after working on Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan albums

American producer Daniel Nigro has been crowned Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical at the 67th Grammy Awards. The Grammy 2025 winner notably worked on recent records by Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo, which are also nominated for other categories in the ceremony.

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In the Producer Of The Year category, Nigro beats fellow producers Alissia, Mustard, Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II and Ian Fitchuk. His work on Chappel Roan’s 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess and on Rodrigo’s 2024 Guts and Guts (Spilled) likely put him ahead of other nominees. The former artist is up for six Grammys in 2025, and the latter is up for one Grammy (but took home a cool three Grammys in 2022).

This isn’t the first win Nigro has picked up at the Grammys — he won in the 2022 Best Pop Vocal Album category for his work as producer and engineer on Rodrigo’s album Sour. 

In his acceptance speech at the 2025 Grammys, Nigro said: “I’d like to thank my wife, Emily; my daughter, Saoirse; my manager, Ian; Island Records; Interscope; Chappell Roan; Olivia Rodrigo; Dana Meyerson; Sony; Thomas Scout; Katie Nick; [and] lastly, my friend Justin Raisen. We grew up together and we started hanging out when we were five years old. I got him into [the] guitar. He got me into [music] production. We’re both here tonight, I think, because of each other.”

Watch his acceptance speech below.

Other producers taking home Grammy awards this evening include French dance duo Justice for Best Dance/Electronic Recording; Elaine Martone for Producer Of The Year, Classical; Peter Gabriel for Best Immersive Audio Album; Hans Zimmer for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media thanks to his work on Dune: Part Two. 

More Grammy-winning producers and engineers will be announced as the ceremony unfolds.

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