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Questlove

Born Jan 20, 1971 · 55 years115 titles 71 movies · 44 TV
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Biography

Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born on January 20, 1971), known professionally as ?uestlove or Questlove (also known as BROther ?uestion, Questo or Brother Question), is an American drummer, DJ, music journalist and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, which is now the in-house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He has produced for artists such as Common, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Jay-Z, Nikka Costa and more recently, Al Green, Amy Winehouse and John Legend. He is a member of the production teams the Soulquarians, The Randy Watson Experience, and The Grand Wizzards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Questlove,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

?uestlove · Ahmir-Khalib Thompson · Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson · Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson · Ahmir Thompson · Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

Born

Jan 20, 1971

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

104

Acting credits

5

Directing

1

Writing

17

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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