Fabrizio Moretti
Fabrizio Moretti is the drummer for American rock band The Strokes. He has been part of a series of groups since the mid-2000s, most notably the Brazilian-American band Little Joy. In 2012, he was named one of the top ten artists of the year by The New York Times. In 2013, he released his first solo album, The New Abnormal.
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Fabrizio Moretti is the drummer for American rock band The Strokes. He has been part of a series of groups since the mid-2000s, most notably the Brazilian-American band Little Joy which released one album in 2008. Since 2018, Moretti has led the New York synth pop band and artist collective Machinegum which both performs and records music and presents gallery installations. Moretti was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Stefano, an Italian nuclear engineer, and Ana Moretti, a Brazilian. He and his family moved to New York City when he was three years old for his father’s career; they planned to live there for only three years, but ended up staying for seventeen before returning to Brazil. He began playing the drums as age five, playing in a soundproofed closet in his family’s Midtown Manhattan apartment, and became more serious during high school.
In 2007, he joined with Los Hermanos guitarist, singer, songwriter Rodrigo Amarante and Binki Shapiro to form the trio Little Joy, a Los Angeles-based BrazilianAmerican rock supergroup. The group has also collaborated with architect Joseph Vescio and actordor Justin Bartha in the past few years. He was part of the group Conduit dejayed, a project that was a collaboration of musicians, artists, and performance artists. He is also a member of New York-based art collective, Aventrextel, which he has led since 2018 and released their debut album, Conduit, in December 2019. In 2012, he was named one of the top ten artists of the year by The New York Times, and has appeared in numerous other publications since. In 2013, he released his first solo album, The New Abnormal, which was produced by Noah Georgeson.
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