Tunde Adebimpe
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Tunde Adebimpe performing live with TV on the Radio at Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden, September 13, 2004
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe |
| Born | February 26, 1975 St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Genres | Experimental rock, indie rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actor, director, animator, visual artist |
| Instruments | Vocals, loops |
| Associated acts | TV on the Radio, Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band, Nevermen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Massive Attack, Tinariwen, Lee Scratch Perry |
Babatunde Omoroga "Tunde" Adebimpe (born February 25, 1975) is an American musician, actor, director, and visual artist best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio. His last name "Adebimpe" means "the crown is complete" in Yoruba.[1]
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Acting career
He starred in a 2001 indie movie, Jump Tomorrow,[2] based on a short college film, Jorge, in which he played the same character.
In 2008 he appeared as the groom in Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married alongside Anne Hathaway, who portrayed the bride's wayward sister. In the film, Adebimpe performs an a cappella cover of the Neil Young song "Unknown Legend".[3]
In late 2013 Adebimpe wrapped shooting on Chilean director Sebastian Silva's Nasty Baby, starring opposite Kristen Wiig and director Silva. The film is slated for a 2015 release.[4]
Adebimpe made a brief cameo as himself on the IFC program Portlandia in the show's season 4 premiere.
Adebimpe most recent acting role is in Bob Byington's film 7 Chinese Brothers, which is slated to be released in 2015.
Solo work and collaborations
As well as occasionally performing solo, Tunde regularly collaborates with other musicians. Adebimpe provides backing vocals on the track "Dragon Queen" on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' record, It's Blitz!, which was produced by fellow TVOTR member David Andrew Sitek. He also appears on several tracks of Dragons of Zynth's Coronation Thieves, also partially produced by Sitek. He produced and guested on "Your Glasshouse" a track from Atmosphere's record When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold. He is also featured on the song, "Deathful", on Subtle's album Yell&Ice.[5]
In early 2009 he performed three shows as a duo with Tall Firs drummer Ryan Sawyer, the latter two under the name Stabbing Eastward.[6][7][8][9] Also in early 2009, Adebimpe released a combined single/DVD under the name Fake Male Voice on the Japan/Brooklyn label Heartfast.[10] He performed one show under that name with a pickup group at the record's release party.[11][12] Fake Male Voice again performed at a Heartfast showcase during CMJ 2009, as a duo comprising Adebimpe and Gerard Smith.[13][14]
In 2009 Adebimpe collaborated with Massive Attack on the track "Pray for Rain".[15]
In 2010 Adebimpe was featured on his TV on the Radio band mate Dave Sitek's project Maximum Balloon on the track Absence of Light.
Adebimpe with members of TV on the Radio are featured on three tracks from Tinariwen's album Tassili (2011), and on the Amadou & Mariam track "Wily Kataso", from the 2012 album Folila.
In 2012, Adebimpe formed the band Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band, who released their self-titled EP on their own ZNA records in October 2013.[16]
Adebimpe provided the vocals on Bad Radio, a track on Leftfields' Alternative Light Source album in 2015.
Directing and animation work
In 1998 Adebimpe worked as one of the initial animators of MTV's hyper-violent claymation program Celebrity Deathmatch.
In 2003 Adebimpe directed the music video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song "Pin".[2]
In 2011 Adebimpe directed "Nine Types of Light", the visual companion to the band's acclaimed fourth album. For the film, he recruited a roster of the band's favorite filmmakers to helm individual clips that would be sewn together into an abstract narrative about dreams, love, fame and the future. Adebimpe directed the video for the song "Forgotten", as well as the interstitial clips where a chorus of narrators help try to connect the dots between the film's various segments.[17][18]
In 2013 Adebimpe directed and animated the video for Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band's single "The Blast the Bloom",[19][20]
Visual art
Originally a cartoonist, Adebimpe still maintains a design, drawing and painting practice. In addition to art directing all of TV on the Radio's album covers, he painted the cover for the band's 2013 single "Mercy".
In 2009 Adebimpe released a self-published art comic, "Plague Hero". The painted book depicts a boxing match between two anthropomorphic characters. Randomly selected copies contained an DVD of "Mystery Sh*t", a compilation of song sketches and animations from Adebimpe's archives.[21]
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External links
- Tunde Adebimpe at the Internet Movie Database
- TV on the Radio on FacebookLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band on Facebook
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