Tunde Adebimpe

Tunde Adebimpe

Birth : 1975-02-26, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

History

Babatunde "Tunde" Adebimpe (born 1975) is an American musician, actor, and director best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio. His vocal method often involves improvisation, the use of effects and repeating sampled loops. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tunde Adebimpe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Tunde Adebimpe

Movies

Meet Me in the Bathroom
Self
Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.
Ultrasound
Dr. Conners
After his car breaks down, Glen spends one hell of an odd night with a married couple, setting into motion a chain of events that alter their lives plus those of several random strangers.
The Sleeping Negro
Sheriff
Confronted with a series of racially charged incidents, a young black man must overcome rage, alienation, and hopelessness in order to find his own humanity.
She Dies Tomorrow
Brian
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
Marriage Story
Sam
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
Cap
Victor Benett
A hardworking teenager learns the harsh price of being cool when he dons a coveted status symbol in his L.A. high school. Medina Senghore, Tunde Adebimpe, Dusan Brown, Ellie Grace Siler and Aaron Joseph star in this short film. Written and directed by Marshall Tyler.
Other Music
Himself
A documentary highlighting the 20 year history of influential indie record store Other Music in Manhattan's East Village.
Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
The Performer
A reckless joyride into the darkest corners of popular music that delves deep into the mind of Mick Rock, the genius photographer who immortalized the seventies and the rise to rock stardom of many legendary musicians.
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Mr. Cobbwell
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
Night Shift
Oliver 'Olly' Jeffries
Ollie Jeffries is an on-again, off-again actor. His long term gig as a bathroom attendant on this one night, forces Ollie to face a reality he’s not yet ready to embrace.
7 Chinese Brothers
Major Norwood
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?
Nasty Baby
Mo
Freddy and his boyfriend Mo are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a father. Polly is a family practitioner who is more interested in having a baby than having a man. Mo is hesitant about the entire idea, especially when Polly isn’t having success with Freddyʼs sperm and the donor responsibility shifts to him. As they navigate the idea of creating life, they are confronted by unexpected harassment from particularly aggressive neighborhood man, nicknamed The Bishop.
The Sun Thief
On the day before leaving New York for graduate school in a Iowa, a writer's plan to spend a romantic day at Rockaway Beach with a woman he's secretly dating is disrupted by an oddball surfer.
Nine Types of Light
himself
Brooklyn's indie favorites TV on the Radio just released a film set to the music of their acclaimed 2011 album, Nine Types of Light. The movie, which runs for just more than an hour, includes music videos for each song on the album and is supposed to represent a visual interpretation of the record. Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe not only directed the Nine Types of Light film, but also storybooked it and helmed the video for "Forgotten." Additionally, the rest of the band worked with friends and filmmakers to help conceptualize and direct the rest of the music videos.
Nine Types of Light
Director
Brooklyn's indie favorites TV on the Radio just released a film set to the music of their acclaimed 2011 album, Nine Types of Light. The movie, which runs for just more than an hour, includes music videos for each song on the album and is supposed to represent a visual interpretation of the record. Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe not only directed the Nine Types of Light film, but also storybooked it and helmed the video for "Forgotten." Additionally, the rest of the band worked with friends and filmmakers to help conceptualize and direct the rest of the music videos.
The Lottery
Original Music Composer
Four children enter a high-stakes lottery. If they win, they can attend one of the best schools in New York. A look at the crisis in public education, The Lottery makes the case than any child can succeed.
Rachel Getting Married
Sidney Williams
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Jump Tomorrow
George
When shy, straitlaced George (Tunde Adebimpe) meets vivacious, adorable Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard (Hippolyte Girardot), a lovesick, voluble Frenchman who overcomes George's sense of propriety and takes him on a meandering road trip to amour.
Jorge
A lovelorn man is entranced by a beautiful girl who takes a ladybird from his neck.
Buddyhead: Punk Is Dead
Self
This scorching collection of music videos compiled by Buddyhead, the hip online store and record label, includes contributions from more than two dozen post-punk, hard-core and indie rock bands. Among the artists are TV on the Radio, Jesus Lizard, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Enon, the Locust, Ted Leo, British Sea Power, the Fiery Furnaces, Psychedelic Freak, the Evaporators, Your Enemies Friends and many more.