Joe Endozo is a Staten Island producer, engineer, and songwriter (Ari Lennox, Art Bath, Leila Hegazy). He releases solo music, plays in the Grateful Dead tribute Uncle Joe’s Band, and makes music with LA composer Mike Tuccillo as Animal, Animal.
As a producer and mix engineer, he worked with Ari Lennox and Dreamville Records from 2018 to 2022, contributing to gold and platinum-certified records. He also composed and engineered music for Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 under Dan Romer, a score that earned a BAFTA nomination. A graduate of SUNY Purchase (BFA, Studio Composition), he has produced artists across all five boroughs of New York City.
Today, Joe is a live sound engineer with Art Bath, where he helps produce multi-room immersive performance art at venues like the Blue Building and ArtX, working alongside talent from Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera.
A recipient of the DCLA Premier Grant and the Howard Gilman Grant through Staten Island Arts, Joe is committed to the borough’s creative community. In 2025, his song “Color My Heart” was performed by Petrides choir students and by the summer youth choir at St. George Theatre.
His new self produced/mixed album, Willowbrook, is out now.
Photo by Juan Patiño