Pogue was born on December 27, 1963, in Roselle, New Jersey, the son of social worker Joan Ford and artist Arthur Pogue. At a young age, his interest in music started with the drums, when his mom gave him his first drum set. In 1984, he took his dreams of becoming a tour drummer to Los Angeles, Californiain 1984[citation needed]. After numerous attempts of breaking into the industry as a musician, Pogue enrolled at Sound Master Recording, a local school for audio engineering.[3][4] By experimenting with instruments by recording them on a four-track recorder, he began to appreciate the craft of engineering. After school through a mutual friend, Pogue interned at a studio owned by Michael Jackson's younger brother Randy Jackson. He was then awarded with the opportunity to be an assistant engineer on Jackson's Randy & The Gypsys album. Pogue assisted there for a year. During Pogue's internship, he met Larrabee Sound Studios owner Kevin Mills and interned under him for 1 year due to Mills' encouragement that Pogue should go out on his own. In 1990, while doing various recording and mixing gigs in LA, he came in contact with Bobby Brown through Louil Silas Jr., who was an MCA Records Executive A&R at the time. Brown, who was living in Atlanta at the time, suggested that Pogue work there with him on his self-titled album. While working in Atlanta, Pogue fell in love with the city and decided to move him and his family there in 1992.[citation needed] While in Atlanta, through recording artist Pebbles, Pogue met the newly formed production company Organized Noize whom at the time had the LaFace Records bound unsigned hip hop duo Outkast. Through his relationship with LaFace he came in contact and worked with Toni Braxton, Goodie Mob, TLC, and Outkast, who he would go on to engineer multiple successful albums for. Pogue went on to start his own production company, Fulton Yard Unlimited, with partner Walter McKennie, with whom he has worked with M.I.A., Nelly Furtado, En Vogue, and Earth Wind & Fire.
Pogue currently resides in Los Angeles where he has continued a prolific mixing career including working on albums for R&B/hip hop duo THEY., Swedish artist Robyn's #1 charted album Honey, "Tonya" for Brockhampton's Iridescence, and Macy Gray for whom he mixed her album Ruby.[citation needed]
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