Bao Pham aka CLVSSIC. is a Vietnamese-American Producer/Engineer/Songwriter and business owner of Mixology Recording Studios and Supreme Sound Music, born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. With extensive studies in music since the age of four, Bao is classically trained in piano, guitar, and saxophone; in his younger years, he also played as a keyboardist and rhythm guitar/bass for his father’s band, The QB Band, promptly named after Bao’s middle and first name initials.
Bao’s experiences with live instrumentation, along with a classically trained ear, and love for Hip-Hop music all the while attending Arts and Academics schools such as Carver Elementary, Baldwin Jr. High, and Loveless Academic Motivational Program propelled him to pursue a career in music production, and his first placement (Watch What You Say To Me, featuring Jay-Z) appeared on T.I. vs. T.I.P., the fifth studio album by American rapper T.I., released on July 3, 2007 through Grand Hustle Records, Asylum Records and Atlantic Records.
Bao later pursued to open a recording studio in Montgomery in October of 2009, Mixology Recording Studios, also owned and operated by himself successfully–working with numerous local and independent artists as well as major artists, one namely the late Glenn Thomas aka Doe B, a rising star signed to A&M/Geffen and T.I.’s Hustle Gang Records until he was tragically gunned down in December of 2013.
In the past decade, Bao has gone on to work with other prominent rappers, singer/songwriters, and producers such as Young Dro, Shek’spere (producer: TLC, NSync, Whitney Houston, Destiny’s Child), Yo Gotti, Rocko, Busta Rhymes, Joell Ortiz, Zaytoven, Verse Simmonds, Future, Watch the Duck, Christina Milian, Estelle, Bigga Rankin, Kalenna Harper (Dirty Money), Ursula (Sevyn Streeter, Jennifer Lopez), Nicki Minaj, Rich Homie Quan, Trae Da Truth, Sam Chris (Doctor’s Advocate), Nikki Grier (Dr. Dre, Eminem, Ginuwine, Michael Jackson), Moneybagg Yo, Jr. Boss, and many, many more.