Phofo was born in Brooklyn, NY in the Dog Day Afternoon-era 70s.
Alongside the legendary Prince Paul (De La Soul),
Phofo was responsible for producing legendary rapper MC Paul Barman's critically acclaimed debut
LP, which was given 4 stars by Rolling Stone. Phofo has enjoyed the pleasure
of producing, remixing and collaborating with ubiquitous indie pop and underground
hip-hop stars like MF Doom (Gorillaz, Dangerdoom), Mr. Dead (Handsome Boy Modeling
School), Jean Grae (Herbaliser), I am the World Trade Center and many others. He has worked on several ad campaigns, including those
of Scion, And1, Kyocera, Red Bull, Marc Ecko, Budweiser, and Keds.
He recently relocated from NY to LA to score the animated feature film, "Los Campeones de La Lucha Libre" and 52 episodes of the cartoon series, "Sushi Pack" (CBS). He is also a music consultant for film and television, busy recording his own full-length album, writing a book about the cultural and legal history of sampling, and can ocassionally be found spinning loungecore, library, bossa and go-go hits in seedy clubs.
In addition to music production, Phofo is a trial lawyer, copyright scholar and a principal in an LA-based music licensing company, representing over 20,000 titles as diverse as Afrika Bambaataa, Can, Billie Holiday, Frank Popp, Seņor Coconut and Portugal. The Man. He was a contributing writer to Dave Eggars/McSweeney's "Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans" (Knopf/Random House) and a music consultant to PRI's "This American Life". He enjoys Bengal Spice tea, the bossa nova, massages, holgagraphy, and collects super 8 cameras, the art of Tim Biskup, tiki mugs and mad props. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter and Moishe, a ridiculously funloving bichon frise.
[Phofo water color painting is by Kim Borsuk.]