Lynn Fainchtein

Lynn Fainchtein (1963 – 1 March 2024) was a Mexican music producer and musical supervisor who worked in television and film.^[1] She worked with Lee Daniels on the films Precious, The Butler, and The United States vs. Billie Holiday,^[2] and she received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for the latter.^[3] She supervised the music on Alfonso Cuarón's Golden Globe winning feature-length film Roma alongside Randall Poster.^[4]

Lynn Fainchtein
Fainchtein in 2016
Born	1963 (1963)
Died	1 March 2024 (aged 61) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Mexican
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Occupation	Music producer

She was born in 1963 into a Russian-Jewish family. She studied psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and worked in radio for a decade. In 2000, she began supervising the soundtracks for feature films such as Fernando Sariñana's Mexican crime film Gimme the Power.^[5]

González Iñárritu was a long-standing collaborator of Fainchtein's and she contributed to 21 Grams, Babel, and Birdman, among others.^[5] She died on 1 March 2024 in Madrid, Spain, where she lived, at the age of 61.^[1]