Today, George Seara is an award-winning mix and recording engineer. He has been nominated for multiple Juno and Grammy awards, including winning the 2012 Juno for Recording Engineer of the Year, and collaborated with household names like Shawn Mendes, Rihanna, Drake, Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift.
For a long time, however, he was just a kid who loved music and computers and couldn’t figure out a way to combine the two.
In the seventh grade, Seara learned how to play guitar and performed in bands all through high school. He loved the culture surrounding music, but his parents, hardworking immigrants from Portugal, encouraged him to build a strong academic foundation, so Seara decided to study computer science at the University of Waterloo.
“Waterloo really taught me to think,” he recalls. “The computer science program challenged me, because I had to become comfortable with not always knowing the answer, not necessarily having one definitive solution for a problem.”