Trombone Shorty
New Orleans, US
funk · jazz · brass · soul
Troy Andrews, known as Trombone Shorty, is a New Orleans musical prodigy who performed at Jazz Fest with Bo Diddley at age four and led his own brass band by six. Born January 2, 1986, he later joined Lenny Kravitz's Electric Church World Tour as a teenager. His music fuses funk, soul, rock, jazz, and hip-hop into a sound he calls Supafunkrock. Since 2010 he has released five studio albums on Verve Forecast and Blue Note Records, including Backatown (2010), which topped the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart for nine weeks, and Lifted (2022). He has collaborated with Pharrell, Bruno Mars, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Foo Fighters, and performed at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and the White House. A multiple Grammy nominee, he also founded the Trombone Shorty Foundation to support youth music education in New Orleans.