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About Thievery Corporation
Hometown
Washington, D.C.
Formed
1995
Genre
Electronic
The electronic music duo Thievery Corporation produces worldly downtempo electronica informed by bossa nova, dub reggae, jazz, Latin music, and more.
• Rob Garza and Eric Hilton met in 1995 at Hilton’s Eighteenth Street Lounge in Washington, D.C. The two producers and multi-instrumentalists bonded over their love of ’60s bossa nova music.
• Thievery Corporation’s acclaimed 1997 debut, Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi, sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide and just missed the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
• Their 1998 single “Lebanese Blonde” scraped the bottom of the UK charts and was included on the soundtrack for the film Garden State in 2004.
• With 2005’s The Cosmic Game and 2008’s Radio Retaliation, Thievery Corporation managed back-to-back No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.
• The politically charged Radio Retaliation features such guest vocalists as Nigerian musician Femi Kuti and Chuck Brown, a pioneer of the D.C. funk subgenre known as go-go.
• As befits their wide range of musical influences, Thievery Corporation has released songs in Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Hindi, and more.
Members of Thievery Corporation include, or have included, Eric Hilton, Rob Garza, GARZA and more.
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