Lynn Fainchtein

{{Short description|Spanish music producer (1963–2024)}}

Lynn Fainchtein (1963 – 1 March 2024) was a music producer and musical supervisor from Spain who worked in television and film.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/lynn-fainchtein-music-supervisor-amores-perros-roma-dead-1235619850/ |title=Lynn Fainchtein, Music Supervisor of 'Amores Perros' and 'Roma,' Dead at 61 |date=2024-03-01 |access-date=2024-09-17 |magazine=Billboard |last=Cano |first=Natalia}} She worked with Lee Daniels on the films Precious, The Butler, and The United States vs. Billie Holiday,{{Cite web |url=https://variety.com/2021/artisans/awards/behind-music-united-states-billie-holiday-1234916587/ |title=Recording Andra Day as Billie Holiday Was an Exercise in 'Surround' Sound |date=2021-02-26 |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Variety |last=Tangcay |first=Jazz}} and she received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for the latter.{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/Lynn-Fainchtein/38063 |title=Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media The United States Vs. Billie Holiday}}

She supervised the music on Alfonso Cuarón's Golden Globe winning feature-length film Roma alongside Randall Poster.{{Cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/roma-music-supervisor-lynn-fainchtein-soundtrack-8490968/ |title='Roma' Music Supervisor Talks Soundtrack to Golden Globe-Winning Film: 'All of the Music Is Embedded in the Story' |date=2018-12-19 |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Billboard |last=Cantor-Navas |first=Judy}}

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 approximately one-decade. In the year 2000 she began supervising the soundtracks for feature films such as Fernando Sariñana's {{Page needed|date=September 2024}} Mexican crime film Gimme the Power.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cinematropical.com/cinema-tropical/roma-and-amores-perros-music-supervisor-lynn-fanchtein-dies-at-60 |title=AMORES PERROS and ROMA Music Supervisor Lynn Fainchtein Dies at 60 |date=2024-03-01 |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Cinema Tropical}}

González Iñárritu was a long-standing collaborator of Fainchtein's and she contributed to 21 Grams, Babel, and Birdman, among others.