BOSTON - Francis Phan, aka p-franchise, is one of Boston's premier music producers in Hip Hop, R&B and Spoken Word music and remixer of House dance music. He is the inaugural recipient of the Producer of The Year Award at the 2006 New England Urban Music Awards.
Francis is production partners with rap artist Omega Red, who together form the production camp The Jugganautz and along with Thanousone Volarat run an independent record label called Stay Grindin'. Francis has produced Iyeoka's critically acclaimed album Black & Blues and Ayisha Knight’s album Until, which Boston Globe’s Steve Morse described as a “multicultural marvel”.
Francis also produced Iyeoka's single "For Rwanda", which was featured on civil rights leader Ambassador Andrew Young's documentary "Rwanda Rising". Francis has produced the theme song for the 2008 season of BET-J's talk show "My Two Cents".
A composer and classically trained pianist since the age of eight, Francis produces music out his Boston based recording studio facility, dubbed the Slingshot. Francis is as versed an engineer as a musician. Francis is a former “Golden Ears” student of Grammy nominated mix engineer David Moulton.
Francis has degrees in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering where he did his thesis work in psychoacoustics, neural networks and speech recognition. His research was published for a graduate level textbook by CRC press. You can view Francis' academic cv here. He has also developed audio software for Cakewalk, iCast and Harmonix Music (makers of video game Rock Band) where he has credits for the Sony PlayStation 2 game “Frequency”. Francis was also a former executive officer for Sonicbids, an online music agency.
Francis runs his own record label and production company Phanai Entertainment. He also serves on an advisory board to Project Think Different, a non profit media organization creating positive messages through music and video. He has been commissioned to write and produce music for fundraising events for advocacy groups such as Boston’s Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and Viet Aid. Francis is a former faculty adjunct at Eastern Nazarene College for music production instruction.
A former sub three hour marathoner, Francis’ other passion is world travel. His wanderlust has included Spain, Brazil, Vietnam, Sweden, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, England, Taiwan, Thailand and Burning Man.
Francis is production partners with rap artist Omega Red, who together form the production camp The Jugganautz and along with Thanousone Volarat run an independent record label called Stay Grindin'. Francis has produced Iyeoka's critically acclaimed album Black & Blues and Ayisha Knight’s album Until, which Boston Globe’s Steve Morse described as a “multicultural marvel”.
Francis also produced Iyeoka's single "For Rwanda", which was featured on civil rights leader Ambassador Andrew Young's documentary "Rwanda Rising". Francis has produced the theme song for the 2008 season of BET-J's talk show "My Two Cents".
A composer and classically trained pianist since the age of eight, Francis produces music out his Boston based recording studio facility, dubbed the Slingshot. Francis is as versed an engineer as a musician. Francis is a former “Golden Ears” student of Grammy nominated mix engineer David Moulton.
Francis has degrees in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering where he did his thesis work in psychoacoustics, neural networks and speech recognition. His research was published for a graduate level textbook by CRC press. You can view Francis' academic cv here. He has also developed audio software for Cakewalk, iCast and Harmonix Music (makers of video game Rock Band) where he has credits for the Sony PlayStation 2 game “Frequency”. Francis was also a former executive officer for Sonicbids, an online music agency.
Francis runs his own record label and production company Phanai Entertainment. He also serves on an advisory board to Project Think Different, a non profit media organization creating positive messages through music and video. He has been commissioned to write and produce music for fundraising events for advocacy groups such as Boston’s Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and Viet Aid. Francis is a former faculty adjunct at Eastern Nazarene College for music production instruction.
A former sub three hour marathoner, Francis’ other passion is world travel. His wanderlust has included Spain, Brazil, Vietnam, Sweden, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, England, Taiwan, Thailand and Burning Man.
