Gnarls Barkley is a brand new group formed between rapper/singer Cee-Lo and producer Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse (Real name Brian Burton) gained notoriety for creating the Grey Album, which was a mixed collaborative bootleg between rapper Jay-Z and the Beatles. The album ran into legal/copyright issues and was given a cease-and-desist order by the record label. The cult following of the album did help Danger Mouse receive new projects from other artists and he eventually helped produce The Gorillaz first album.Cee-Lo Green is a solo artist and former member of Atlanta’s Goodie Mob.
The pair had met in Atlanta in the late ’90s, and began recording together around the time of a 2003 DM record titled Ghetto Pop Life. They released their first album In May 2006 with Atlantic/Downtown Records. The album also made the brand new trend of being released online before in stores by being released on the I tunes Music Service. This trend with technology also gave them the award for being the first group on the UK charts to reach #1 status based on sales of the group’s single online. The group gave their first live concert at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles in 2005. They later made their first official appearance together as a group at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 30, 2006. Their first album, St. Elsewhere, is in stores now.
Credit for some of the biography information goes to both http://www.wikipedia.org and http://www.aolmusic.com
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