https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz
Gorillaz are an English virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, from London.The band primarily consists of four fictional members: 2-D (vocals, keyboards), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Russel Hobbs (drums). Their universe is presented in media such as music videos, interviews, comic strips and short cartoons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Albarn
Damon Albarn OBE (/ ˈ æ l b ɑːr n /, AL-barn; born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Whitechapel, London.He is the frontman and main lyricist of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.. Raised in Leytonstone, East London, and around Colchester, Essex, Albarn attended the Stanway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Hewlett
Albarn would work on the music, while Hewlett would come up with character designs, and both came up with ideas for the members of the band. The first Gorillaz EP was released in 2000 followed by the first album, Gorillaz in 2001. In 2005, their second full studio album, Demon Days was released. In January 2006, Hewlett's artwork for Gorillaz

https://mixmag.net/feature/gorillaz-cover-feature-interview-damon-albarn-jamie-hewlett
It's not easy keeping a band both classy and contemporary after two decades in the concrete jungle: but Gorillaz has managed it with animated ease.. Of course, it helps when that 4K animation is powered by four of the finest musical characters ever committed to pen and ink and you have Damon Albarn at the script controls with his brother in arms, designer and illustrator Jamie Hewlett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIG7JDvLrYs
With Gorillaz, they revolutionized music: Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett tell you the story of the band, from their meeting to their latest album "Song Machi

https://ew.com/article/2010/06/04/gorillaz-characters-interview/
I spoke with Gorillaz' human creators—Tank Girl visual artist Jamie Hewlett and Blur singer Damon Albarn (pictured, seated left to right)—about the project's past, present, and future. Read on

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/38932/1/jamie-hewlett-interview
Hewlett and Albarn are at work on new Gorillaz material, with plans to release a follow-up album to Humanz in 2018. While his art for the foreseeable future will be Gorillaz-centric, works like Tank Girl and the Female Freedom Fighters series feel fresh and uniquely suited for 2018's political climate, although Hewlett eschews the idea of

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55086156
Gorillaz are Damon Albarn (right), Jamie Hewlett (left), and animated bandmates Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs, Noodle and 2-D By Paul Glynn Entertainment & arts reporter

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55086156
Gorillaz always had 'a touch of the apocalypse'. Gorillaz are Damon Albarn (right), Jamie Hewlett (left), and animated bandmates Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs, Noodle and 2-D. When Gorillaz opened

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/arts/music/gorillaz-the-now-now-review.html
Gorillaz gives Mr. Albarn a flexibility that has turned out to be quite shrewd. The project hands over Mr. Albarn's songs to Mr. Hewlett's imaginary, multiethnic and conveniently ageless band

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/15/damon-albarn-gorillaz
Shot over six years until 2006, Bananaz follows the evolution of Gorillaz from an idea hatched one night between two friends, Blur frontman Damon Albarn and designer Jamie Hewlett, to a multi

https://www.wired.com/2005/07/gorillaz-2/
For good measure, Albarn and Hewlett released the music in four versions - an original; two sets of remixes; and a DVD with accompanying animation, interactive games, and performance videos.

https://gorillaz.fandom.com/wiki/Gorillaz
This article is a real-world history of the group Gorillaz. For their self-titled debut album, see Gorillaz (album). Gorillaz (also stylized as ɢoʀiʟʟaᴢ or GoRiLLaZ) is a virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett that consist of four fictional animated band members: 2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs and Noodle. The band was created by Damon Albarn, frontman of the

https://gorillaz.fandom.com/wiki/Jamie_Hewlett
Jamie Christopher Hewlett is an English comic book artist and designer best known for being the co-creator of the comic Tank Girl and designer, illustrator and co-creator, along with Damon Albarn, of the virtual band Gorillaz. While studying at Northbrook College, Worthing, West Sussex, England; Hewlett, Alan Martin and fellow student Philip Bond created a fanzine called Atomtan. This brought

https://www.grunge.com/1527115/what-the-gorillaz-look-like-in-real-life-gorillaz/
Like Damon Albarn, Gorillaz co-founder Jamie Hewlett has managed to remain relatively unrecognizable while making an impact with his art. Hewitt has been involved in loads of projects over the years, starting with the "Tank Girl" comic book in the late 1980s all the way to a 2015 giant tarot card collection dubbed "The Suggestionists."

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/gorillaz-song-machine-live-damon-albarn-interview-1099869/
December 8, 2020. Damon Albarn (left) and Jamie Hewlett Thomas Chéné. Gorillaz have always prided themselves on being the biggest virtual band in the world — so it makes sense that the cartoon

https://gorillaz.fandom.com/wiki/Damon_Albarn
Damon Albarn is an an English-Icelandic singer and songwriter who gained fame as frontman of rock band Blur, though as of late, Albarn has been more active as a member of Gorillaz, Africa Express, Electric Wave Bureau[1] and as a solo artist. He has released two solo albums named Everyday Robots and The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows. Past projects of him include Albarn

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Damon-Albarn
Damon Albarn (born March 23, 1968, Whitechapel, London, England) is an English musician who found fame as the front man for the rock band Blur and as the main creative force behind the pop group Gorillaz but was also noted for his eclectic output as a composer, producer, and collaborator.. Albarn, whose parents were involved in London's creative counterculture, spent his early years in the

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/damon-albarns-gorillaz-is-still-going-strong-after-nearly-two-decades/
Even so, Albarn's second act as the creative vision behind Gorillaz, which plays Saturday (Sept. 30) at KeyArena, counts as a surprise. As the leader of Blur, which, for a time, was one of the U

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229814604_The_Digital_Won't_Let_Me_Go_Constructions_of_the_Virtual_and_the_Real_in_Gorillaz'_Clint_Eastwood1
audiences are permitted more explicit glimpses of Albarn and Hewlett in a. ... Gorillaz offered Albarn an opportunity to push this eclecticism further, essentially starting with a clean slate

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/abs/torpedoing-the-authorship-of-popular-music-a-reading-of-gorillaz-feel-good-inc/2092A7A8195EA5A8CE2159A5B601E078
While rock musicians have attempted to come to terms with this phenomenon by either performing a 'Romantic' sense of authenticity (basically by importing folk values to the production process) or 'Modernist authenticity' (by highlighting experimentation and alienation), Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, creators of Gorillaz, found a third

https://www.amazon.com/music/player/dp/B07VZ26R3W
Hewlett's cartoon characters gave Gorillaz a patina of frivolity, and that joviality, when combined with a revolving cast of collaborators, balanced Albarn's darker moments. Guest musicians helped Gorillaz stay surprising and current -- over the years, the group recorded with Del the Funky Homosapien, De La Soul, Shaun Ryder, Mick Jones of the

https://www.songkick.com/artists/43227-blur
The album "13" followed in 1999 after which Albarn focussed on the hip-hop side-project Gorillaz with cartoonist Jamie Hewlett. Graham Coxon departed the group ahead of the band's seventh studio album "Think Tank", which marked the end of Blur until a reunion tour in 2009. The documentary "No Distance Left to Run" was released in

https://gorillaz.fandom.com/wiki/Deltron_3030
Deltron 3030 is an alternative hip-hop concept trio composed of the Cantankerous Captain Aptos (played by producer Dan the Automator), Deltron Zero/Deltron Osiris (played by rapper Del the Funkee Homosapien) and Skiznod the Boy Wonder (played by DJ Kid Koala). The group has collaborated with Gorillaz creator Damon Albarn on its self-titled debut album and its sequel, Event 2. They also