1. Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor.
26 Facts About Tunde Adebimpe
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Tunde Adebimpe is best known as a founding member and co-lead vocalist of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio, with whom he has recorded five studio albums.
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Tunde Adebimpe was born into a Nigerian immigrant family in the United States.
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Tunde Adebimpe attended Shady Side Academy in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania for high school, where he is still active on the board.
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Tunde Adebimpe is married to French cartoonist Domitille Collardey, with whom he has a child.
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Tunde Adebimpe co-founded TV on the Radio in 2001 alongside guitarist and producer Dave Sitek.
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Tunde Adebimpe appeared on several tracks of Dragons of Zynth's Coronation Thieves, partially produced by Sitek.
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In 2008, Tunde Adebimpe formed the experimental side project Nevermen with Mike Patton and Doseone.
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Tunde Adebimpe performed one show under that name with a pickup group at the record's release party.
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In 2009 Tunde Adebimpe collaborated with Massive Attack on the track "Pray for Rain".
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In 2010, Tunde Adebimpe was featured on Sitek's project Maximum Balloon on the track "Absence of Light".
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In 2012, Tunde Adebimpe formed the band Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band, who released their self-titled EP on their own ZNA records in October 2013.
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Tunde Adebimpe provided the vocals on Bad Radio, a track on Leftfield's Alternative Light Source album in 2015.
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In October 2024, Tunde Adebimpe announced that he had signed to Sub Pop for his debut solo LP, with the title later revealed to be Thee Black Boltz.
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In 1998, Tunde Adebimpe worked as one of the initial animators of MTV's hyper-violent claymation program Celebrity Deathmatch.
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Tunde Adebimpe starred in a 2001 indie movie, Jump Tomorrow, based on a short college film, Jorge, in which he played the same character.
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In 2003, Tunde Adebimpe directed the music video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song "Pin".
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In 2011, Tunde Adebimpe directed the visual companion to the band's fourth album, Nine Types of Light.
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Tunde 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.
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In 2013, Tunde Adebimpe directed and animated the video for Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band's single "The Blast the Bloom", In late 2013, Tunde Adebimpe wrapped shooting on Chilean director Sebastian Silva's Nasty Baby, starring opposite Kristen Wiig and director Silva.
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Tunde Adebimpe made a brief cameo as himself on the IFC program Portlandia in the show's season 4 premiere.
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In 2020 in the second episode of the HBO Perry Mason miniseries, Tunde Adebimpe has a small role as a street preacher.
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Tunde Adebimpe has been cast in the 2024 TV show Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.
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Originally a cartoonist, Tunde Adebimpe still maintains a design, drawing and painting practice.
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In 2009, Tunde Adebimpe released a self-published art comic, Plague Hero.
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In May 2017, Tunde Adebimpe premiered A Warm Weather Ghost, a live, multimedia performance work commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.