Fabrizio Moretti

At 43 years old, Fabrizio Moretti has this physical status:

Fabrizio Moretti (born June 2, 1980) is a Brazilian-American musician and visual artist best known as the drummer for The Strokes, a Brazilian-American indie rock band.

He is also a member of Little Joy, a Brazilian/American rock supergroup.

Moretti has also worked on various art commissions since 2012.

Early life

Moretti was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Stefano Moretti, an Italian nuclear engineer, and Ana Moretti, a Brazilian. Leo Moretti, his older brother, was raised with Leo Moretti. Moretti and his family immigrated to New York City when he was three years old for his father's career; they intended to live there for just three years but ended up staying for seventeen years before returning to Brazil. Moretti said "I didn't feel like a Brazilian, I didn't feel like an Italian, and I certainly didn't feel like an American" when speaking about identity during his young adulthood in New York. I was wandering around trying to figure out my identity through New York City.'

He started playing the drums at the age five, wearing a soundproofed closet in his family's Midtown Manhattan apartment, and became more serious in high school. Moretti attended Anglo American International International School, which later joined the Dwight School, and was where he met fellow band members Nick Valensi and Julian Casablancas as an adolescent. Moretti studied sculpture at SUNY New Paltz before deciding on his musical career with The Strokes.

Personal life

He was born in Brazil and has lived in the United States since a young age, recently becoming a citizen of the United States in addition to having citizenship in Italy, his father's country of origin. Moretti speaks in English, Portuguese, Italian, and a few French words.

Moretti had a close friendship with actress Drew Barrymore in the 2000s. The two people lived in a cyclical fashion from 2002 to 2007. Kirsten Dunst briefly dated actor in 2007. Moretti has become more private since this time. He was later in a four-year friendship with Little Joy bandmate Binki Shapiro. Kristen Wiig and Moretti dated from late 2011 to 2013.

Moretti lives in New York City; he has an apartment in the East Village's Union Square, which he first bought in 2003. He lived in Paris for a time during the late 1990s.

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Career

Moretti began drumming in a nontraditional band with vocalist Casablancas and guitarist Valensi in high school, and continued until the two left Dwight. Nikolai Fraiture came as the bassist, and the band was formed when guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. joined in fall 1998. The Strokes' first show as The Strokes appeared in New York City on September 14, 1999. The band formed The Modern Age EP in 2001 under Rough Trade Records and was in contract for a five-album contract with RCA Records. With tours and festival sets in North America, Europe, South America, East Asia, and Australia, the band has released six albums, including Is This Is It, Room on Fire, First Impressions of Earth, Angles, Comedown Machine, and The New Abnormal. The band has continued to record new music through Casablancas' Cult Records following the conclusion of their 2013 album contract with RCA Records.

Moretti's drumming style has been described as crisp and clean, as well as a mature elegance. He has said that he needs to ensure a steady, driving force with his playing, which resulted in him reducing his drum kit to a four-piece set up with a hi-hat and ride cymbals. With Zildjian cymbals and Ahead sticks, he often uses a Ludwig Classic Maple drum kit. He began drumming, and he was often breaking his drum sticks early on. Early records depict a more straightforward and 'punk' style of playing and recording, while later albums feature more compressed drums in the style of industrial and dance music.

Moretti formed Little Joy, a Los Angeles-based Brazilian/American rock supergroup formed in 2007. Both Amarante and Moretti met in 2006 at a festival in Lisbon, where both their bands were playing, and the plan was to begin a new musical project unrelated to their respective bands. Little Joy was the product of Rough Trade Records' trademark. Noah Georgeson's debut album, which was released in 2008, was released in 2008.

Moretti has been a member of the New York synth pop band and artist group Machinegum (stylized machinegum), which performs and records music as well as exhibitions. Moretti and Ian Devaney (vocalist of Nation of Word), Delicate Steve, Chris Egan, Martin Bonventre, and Erin Victoria Axtel are among the group's members. In the past, the company has worked with architect Joseph Vescio and actor/director Justin Bartha.

In December 2019, Machinegum's debut album Conduit was released. The group later signed to the Frenchkiss Records brand in February 2020, which was released on Frenchkiss Records.

Moretti's output outside of his more traditional musical career blends musical, presentation, and visual art. Devendra Banhart, Rodrigo Amarante, and New York City contemporaries, including his Strokes bandmates, have all collaborated. He has performed songwriting and remixing for other musicians, as well as deejaying performances.

Moretti was a member of Megapuss, a project by Devendra Banhart, Gregory Rogove, and Noah Georgeson in 2008. The band has released a self-titled album. Moretti and Banhart worked on a project called Permanent Adventure in the ensuing year. On Neon Neon's track "Dream Cars," Moretti performed drums. Moretti performed on Kesha's "Only Wanna Dance With You" in 2012, as well as bandmate Julian Casablancas. He co-wrote "Prisoner" from Har Mar Superstar's 2013 album Byee 17, with Banhart and Amarante. During Banhart's 2013 tour, Moretti and Amarante were both members of Banhart's backing band, which also appeared in the United States and Europe. Moretti also contributed to Amarante's debut solo album in 2014. Moretti remixed Spoon's 2014 track "Inside Out" for the band's remix EP in 2015. Moretti wrote "I Love You Every Time" on the Play it Forward campaign in 2016, assisting the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks; with Beck and Nick Valensi, he covered "I Love You All the Time." During the second week of April 2016, Moretti sat-in as drummer for The 8G Band, the house band for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Moretti played drums on the 2017 album "Indignities," by the New York synth-pop band Nation Of Language; he also served as bassist on one of the band's tours. Moretti's original instrumental song "In Case of Separation" appeared on French experimental artist Sophie Calle's "tribute" album, Souris Calle, in 2018.

Moretti would executive produce Clash of the Music Videos with then-girlfriend Drew Barrymore in 2007. However, the show was never produced.

Moretti is an enthusiastic visual artist who adores sculpture and drawing. He has been contributing to various causes since the mid-2000s. This exhibition includes a 2013 art show by Rag + Bone and a display of his drawings in New York. He has also worked on FUZLAB with French cartoonist Luz in 2012; he continued to collaborate with Luz later in the decade, at one point sharing a Paris studio with him. In 2017, a sculpture of him was on view in Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City.

Moretti and Italian art dealer Fabrizio Moretti worked together in December 2019 to present Fabrizio Moretti x Fabrizio Moretti In Passing at Sotheby's in New York City. Moretti curated a series of Old Master paintings, and the former conceptualized the interactive exhibit.

Moretti designed and built "Kube," a nine-foot tall structure made of one-way mirror, polished steel, and fluorescent lights, in December 2021. Kube was designed by hand in Brooklyn with the support of welder Franco V. and artist girlfriend Gabriella Corey, and was meant to show the viewer and the object as one being repeated ad infinitum. The "Mirror (Pagan Gold to Organic Green) of Anish Kapoor is attached to a disc of polished and highly reflective aluminium that has been embedded inside the Kube. "You become part of the art work when you're inside it, as you just discovered." In an interview with Flaunt Magazine, Moretti discusses the Kube's experience. You won't know out when you're inside. It's almost like the viewer is converted into this nebulous being, but outside the box, Moretti says, "The mirror can be a source of vanity." "But it can also be a point of self-reflection," he says. You can actually see yourself outside yourself, one of many." [Pause] [Pause] "I'm hoping" is the moment when you see yourself and the artwork and the friendship you have with it sanctifies the moment.

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