Neal Pogue

Neal Pogue

Neal Pogue, born Neal Harrington Pogue, is an American hip-hop producer, audio engineer and mixer from Roselle, New Jersey based in Atlanta, Georgia. Pogue is a governor of The Recording Academy also known as NARAS chapter in Atlanta, Georgia. Pogue is a Grammy Award winner, having won for his work as engineer and mixer on Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2004) – which won the Album of the Year category. Pogue has also produced for artists such as M.I.A, Nelly Furtado, Earth, Wind & Fire and has mixed for artists such as TLC, Pink, Nicki Minaj and Janelle Monáe. Having engineered for TLC's Grammy nominated 11-time platinum single "Waterfalls", Pogue also arranged the horns on Waterfalls under the pseudonym "Shock". Pogue has gone on to work with many prominent names in music.

Pogue started out as a drummer at a young age. He took his dreams of becoming a tour drummer to Los Angeles, California in 1984. After numerous attempts of breaking into the industry as a musician, Pogue enrolled at Sound Master Recording, a local school for audio 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 Gypsy's 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 the late Louil Sials Jr. whom was an MCA Records Executive A&R at the time. Brown whom was living in Atlanta, GA at the time suggested that Pogue work there with him on his self-titled BOBBY.While working in Atlanta, Pogue fell in love with the city and decided to move him and his family there in 1992.

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