Boonie mayfield

Boonie Mayfield (aka Solomon Vaughn) is a Colorado-born artist, songwriter, producer, musician, filmmaker, editor, performer and creative world-builder whose career has evolved far beyond the beatmaking videos that first introduced him to audiences online.

Originally known as Boon Doc, Boonie became one of the pioneers of the online beatmaking community during the late 2000s, building an audience through his MPC production videos and winning Red Bull Big Tune Denver twice. But producing was never the beginning — or the full extent — of his creative identity. He began as a dancer, rapper and songwriter long before his production career took off, and gradually expanded into singing, live instrumentation, acting, comedy, filmmaking and visual storytelling.

The evolution became increasingly visible through a catalog of self-produced albums including Boonie Mayfield Presents: Solomon Vaughn, Audiopium, Vaughn Solo: The Final Level, Black Floyd: Dark Side of the Boon and Boon Pop: The Mile High Theory. Across those projects, Boonie’s writing moves between autobiography, humor, social commentary, faith, self-examination and imaginative world-building, while his production draws from hip-hop, soul, funk, rock, jazz, pop, R&B, psychedelia and a wide variety of musical influences that shaped his sound and evolution.

Rather than separating his influences into different identities, Boonie eventually fused them together under the creative umbrella “Boon Pop” — a reflection of his refusal to let genre or medium dictate what an artist is allowed to become.

His filmmaking work extends his philosophy even further. Alongside his wife and creative partner Giane Morris Vaughn, Boonie co-created Boon TV: Fun with Doc and Jayn, a surreal musical sketch-comedy series blending original music, recurring characters, parody and pop-culture satire. Boon Documented chronicles the making of that work, while BOONWALKER transforms three decades of his personal archive into a nonlinear autobiographical film series built from music, performances, home video, behind-the-scenes footage, comedy, career moments and unexpected connections across time.

Boonie Mayfield’s archive stretches back to his earliest breakdance performances and captures an artist continually acquiring new skills whenever an idea demands them — learning music production to make his own records, playing instruments to achieve sounds he hears in his head, creating films to give his characters somewhere to live, and developing his own visual language when conventional formats are too limiting.

At the center of Boonie Mayfield’s work is a consistent idea: creative freedom is a birthright. His career has been shaped not by abandoning earlier versions of himself, but by allowing all of them to exist at once — the recording artist, producer, musician, dancer, comedian, actor, filmmaker and overall storyteller.

Boon Doc was never the whole story. Boonie Mayfield is.