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, California . After numerous attempts of breaking into the industry as a musician, Pogue enrolled at
Sound Master Recording, a local school for
audio engineering. 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. 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. ==Career highlights==