Los Angeles:
“Wicked” music producer Greg Wells is one of many celebrities who have lost their homes to wildfires in California.
According to Variety, not only did he lose his childhood home, but his state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos mixing room and studio was destroyed in Pacific Palisades.
For Wells, it happened just as he was preparing to resume work on “Wicked: For Good.”
Speaking to Variety, Wells said: “You know, I think life is supposed to be hard. I'm not sure it's supposed to be that hard. But it could be so, so, so much worse than it is. I know “Some people have died, but the people close to me and my family, we're all healthy and safe – and a little bit depressed and bewildered.”
“I had this collection of incredible recording equipment, like a custom, 48-channel analog console made by Paul Wolff, who used to own API, and 17 speakers in that room, six in the ceiling, three on each wall, two on the back wall, four huge subwoofers in the front – just a magical, magical room But I have to remind myself that it's really the people and the ideas, and none of that makes a song better I won't let myself in. by defining', he added.
Recently, Paris Hilton shared on Instagram that her Malibu home was destroyed while she was watching the news about the wildfires.
“To know that so many are waking up today without the place they called home is truly heartbreaking,” she wrote. Hilton's mid-century beach house, purchased in 2021 for more than $8 million, was where her son, Phoenix, “took his first steps.”
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