Pellegrino and Muirhead met at the Manhattan School of Music, which they were both attending. Pellegrino and Parks had played together in Drumadics, a local busking band.[2] Teaming up in mid-2013, the trio started busking together at various stations in the New York City Subway, playing a style they call "brass house".[2] The trio defines it as a mix of jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, funk, EDM, and house music.[3]
Too Many Zooz gained fame when a video of one of their subway performances, recorded by a passerby at the Union Square station, went viral on YouTube in March 2014.[2]
Stage and studio
Too Many Zooz recorded an EP, F NOTE, in January 2014, which they sold at their busking performances. They went on to release three more EPs: Fanimals (2014),[4]Brasshouse Volume 1: Survival of the Flyest (2014), and The Internet (EP) (2015).
By January 2015, the trio was booked on a tour at theaters and small clubs across the United States.[5][6] They played backup for Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks in their televised CMA Awards performance on November 2, 2016, in Nashville.[7]
Kaskade's July 2016 single "Jorts FTW" features Too Many Zooz.[8]
The band's first full-length studio album, Subway Gawdz, came out on June 27, 2016, and received mixed-to-positive reviews.[9][10] The song "Warriors", from the album, was featured in a Google commercial for the Pixel 2 phone in October 2017.[11] The track was also heard during the flag parade of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 Grand Final.[12]KFC featured the song "Brnx Bmbr" in one of their commercials.[13]
Too Many Zooz released the EPs A Very Too Many Zooz Xmas in 2018 and ZombiEP in 2019, and in 2024, they issued their second full-length album, Retail Therapy.
