About Parry Gripp

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## ABOUT

Parry Pillsbury Gripp is a beloved children's music comedy novelty funnyman musician. He has released countless singles in his solo career, and is also the frontman for the Geek-rock band Nerf Herder. He became famous on the internet by writing songs about modern technology, tacos, waffles, hamsters, and many other things. He has written several songs for TV series and movies, including Phineas and Ferb, LearningTown, The 7D, Hoops & Yoyo, StoryBots Super Songs, Super Hero Squad Show, BASEketball, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and many more. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, CA, and is the co-owner (along with his sister, Alice Elizabeth Gripp) of the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate.

This is an article about Parry Gripp, found on The Pillsbury Family website. http://www.pillsburyfamily.info/index.html

*Parry was small when he was born.  Alice expressed the opinion he should be taken back to the hospital until he stopped looking like a couple of pounds of hamburger.  But the rest of us thought he was adorable and we all wanted to hold him.*

*Which we did, often.  Then, Parry grew up to be much taller than Alice and we all went through the tumultuous times, remembered with cringes and cries of, "Are you kidding?"  But Mom Anne was not kidding.*

*But Parry was basically a very good guy and also fascinating by making nice sounds.  This resulted in his starting a group called, Nerf Herder.*

*Parry also wrote for the Independent in Santa Barbara and did other things which were charming.*

He currently resides in Santa Barbara California with his wife Aylene Rhiger Gripp. He is also currently the co-owner of the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate with his sister, Alice.

### Here is some bio information from Parry's website

**Parry Gripp** is an Emmy-winning songwriter and recording artist, whose best-known works include **“Raining Tacos;”** songs for Netflix’s **“Ask The StoryBots;”** and theme songs for Disney’s **“The 7D,”** The Cartoon Network’s **“Ben 10: Omniverse,”** and Marvel’s **“The Super Hero Squad Show.”**

He was series composer for Disney’s **“The 7D”** and has also written songs for Disney’s **“Phineas & Ferb”** (where he appeared as a special guest), Netflix’s **“Emily’s Wonder Lab,”** Hallmark’s **“Hoops & Yoyo”** television specials, Amazon’s **“Lily The Unicorn,”** and an animal video series for National Geographic Kids.

Gripp maintains a highly popular YouTube music channel, with over 600,000 subscribers and 350 million views, featuring children’s favorites such as **“Raining Tacos,”** **“Space Unicorn,”** **“Do You Like Waffles?,” “Baby Monkey (Going Backwards on A Pig),”** and numerous others.

His YouTube videos were featured in Ricky Gervais’ Netflix series **“Derek.”** Actor Christoph Waltz portrayed a hamster in a sketch to Gripp’s song **“Hamster On A Piano”** on Jimmy Kimmel’s 2014 post Academy Awards show.

For nearly a decade, Gripp created and recorded songs for Wawa’s popular **“Hoagiefest”** advertising campaign. His other advertising work includes songs for Hasbro’s **“Elefun and Friends”** ads, including “Hungry Hungry Hippos,” “Chasing Cheeky,” and more.

Gripp’s first children’s book **“Somebunny Loves Me”** was published by National Geographic Kids with an accompanying song and video. His next book is in the works with a projected publication date of 2021.

Older fans might recognize Gripp’s style in the theme song to **“Buffy The Vampire Slayer”** which he wrote and recorded with his band **Nerf Herder**.