DANGER MOUSE

Brian Joseph Burton, known professionally as Danger Mouse, is an American musician and record producer born on July 29, 1977. He gained prominence in 2004 with the release of The Grey Album, a mashup that combined vocal performances from Jay-Z's The Black Album with instrumentals from the Beatles' The Beatles (also known as The White Album). In 2008, Esquire named him one of the "75 most influential people of the 21st century." Danger Mouse formed the band Gnarls Barkley with CeeLo Green in 2006, producing its albums St. Elsewhere, The Odd Couple, and Atlanta. In 2009, he collaborated with James Mercer of the indie rock band The Shins to form Broken Bells, which has released three albums, including Into the Blue in 2022. He has also collaborated with rapper MF Doom as Danger Doom on The Mouse and the Mask and with emcee Black Thought on Cheat Codes. As a producer, he worked on the second Gorillaz album, Demon Days (2005), Beck's 2008 record Modern Guilt, and four albums with The Black Keys: Attack & Release, Brothers, El Camino, and Turn Blue.