Robert John “Mutt” Lange

Robert John "Mutt" Lange

Robert John Lange is a Zambian-born South African record producer and songwriter. He has produced albums for, or otherwise worked with, artists such as ACDC, Def Leppard, The Boomtown Rats, Foreigner, Michael Bolton, The Cars, Bryan Adams, Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Ocean, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Lady Gaga, Now United, Nickelback, and Muse. He also wrote and produced songs with his then-wife, Canadian singer Shania Twain.

About Robert John “Mutt” Lange in brief

Summary Robert John Robert John Lange is a Zambian-born South African record producer and songwriter. He has produced albums for, or otherwise worked with, artists such as ACDC, Def Leppard, The Boomtown Rats, Foreigner, Michael Bolton, The Cars, Bryan Adams, Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Ocean, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, The Corrs, Maroon 5, Lady Gaga, Now United, Nickelback, and Muse. He also wrote and produced songs with his then-wife, Canadian singer Shania Twain. He is a strict vegetarian and a follower of the egalitarian teachings of Sant Mat.

Lange has not given an interview for decades and prefers to live a secluded life, primarily in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. In the 2001 television film Hysteria, actor Anthony Michael Hall portrayed Lange. In May 2008, Lange announced that his son Eja was born six months after his employer Mercury announced that Lange had become a teetotaler and, as a result, they had nonalcoholic champagne at their wedding.