25 Facts About Fabrizio Moretti

Fabrizio Moretti was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Stefano, an Italian nuclear engineer, and Ana Fabrizio Moretti, a Brazilian.

Fabrizio Moretti was raised with his older brother, Leo Moretti.

Fabrizio Moretti began playing the drums at age five, playing in a soundproofed closet in his family's Midtown Manhattan apartment, and became more serious during high school.

Fabrizio Moretti began drumming in an informal band with vocalist Casablancas and guitarist Valensi in high school, and continued after the two left Dwight.

Fabrizio Moretti's drumming style has been called crisp and clean, and having a mature elegance.

Fabrizio Moretti has said that he wants to provide a steady, driving force with his playing which resulted in him simplifying his drum kit to a four-piece set up with a hi-hat and ride cymbals.

Fabrizio Moretti commonly uses a Ludwig Classic Maple drum kit with Zildjian cymbals and Ahead sticks.

Amarante and Fabrizio Moretti had met in 2006, at a festival in Lisbon where both their bands were performing, and the idea came up to start a new musical project unrelated to their respective bands.

Since 2018, Fabrizio Moretti has led the New York synth pop band and artist collective Machinegum which both performs and records music and presents gallery installations.

Fabrizio Moretti has frequently collaborated with musicians Devendra Banhart, Rodrigo Amarante, and New York City contemporaries including his Strokes bandmates.

Fabrizio Moretti has contributed songwriting and remixes to other artists and, throughout his career, has deejayed events.

Fabrizio Moretti was part of a project, Megapuss, with Devendra Banhart, Gregory Rogove and Noah Georgeson in 2008.

Fabrizio Moretti played drums for Neon Neon, on their track "Dream Cars", from 2008's Stainless Style.

Fabrizio Moretti played on Kesha's 2012 song "Only Wanna Dance With You", together with bandmate Julian Casablancas.

Fabrizio Moretti co-wrote "Prisoner," from Har Mar Superstar's 2013 album Bye Bye 17, with Banhart and Amarante.

In 2015, Fabrizio Moretti remixed Spoon's 2014 track "Inside Out" for the band's remix EP.

In 2018, Fabrizio Moretti contributed the original instrumental song "In Case of Separation" to French conceptual artist Sophie Calle's "tribute" album, Souris Calle.

In 2007, it was announced that Fabrizio Moretti was to executive produce a VH1 series called Clash of the Music Videos with then-girlfriend Drew Barrymore.

Fabrizio Moretti is an enthusiastic visual artist and enjoys sculpture and drawing.

Fabrizio Moretti has worked on artistic project FUZLAB with French cartoonist Luz in 2012; he continued to collaborate with Luz later in the decade, at one point sharing a studio with him in Paris.

The latter Fabrizio Moretti curated a collection of Old Master paintings and the former conceptualized the interactive exhibit.

In December 2021, Fabrizio Moretti designed and built, "Kube," a nine-foot tall installation made of one-way mirror, polished steel and fluorescent lights.

Fabrizio Moretti was born in Brazil and has lived in the United States from a young age, having recently become a citizen of the United States in addition to holding citizenship with his father's country of origin, Italy.

From 2002 to 2007, Fabrizio Moretti was in a highly publicized relationship with actress Drew Barrymore.

Fabrizio Moretti was later in a four-year relationship with Little Joy bandmate Binki Shapiro.