How to Hire WALK OFF THE EARTH For Your Event!
aka: WOTE
Members:
Gianni Nicassio, Joel Cassady, Sarah Blackwood, David Speirs, Adam Michael, CJ Hinds
Based in: Canada
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Walk Off the Earth is a Canadian indie pop band from Burlington, Ontario. The group is known for its music videos of covers and originals. The band is well known for covering pop-genre music on YouTube, making use of instruments such as the ukulele and the theremin, as well as looping samples.
Walk Off the Earth was formed in 2006 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The band began releasing music independently and created a variety of cover versions of songs, including those by The Gregory Brothers. In early 2012, the band’s live cover of Gotye‘s “Somebody That I Used to Know” on YouTube gathered over 175 million views in a mere four months, receiving positive reviews from both Gotye and his co-singer on the song, Kimbra.
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In February 2012, the band signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. The members appeared in the Season 4 premiere of CTV’s The Listener, performing two songs and socializing with the main characters in the bar. They also covered “Rude” by Magic!, “Hello” by Adele, “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO, “Payphone” by Maroon 5, and “Roll Up” by Wiz Khalifa.
In December 2012, Walk Off the Earth released an original single titled “Gang of Rhythm”. The group uploaded a cover of Taylor Swift‘s “I Knew You Were Trouble” to YouTube in January 2013, with four of the five band members and guest beatboxer KRNFX using only vocals.
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Walk Off the Earth performed during the half-time show of the NFL playoff game, January 14, 2018, Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints.
On August 9, 2021, Walk Off the Earth partnered with Amazon Music for a performance from atop Toronto’s CN Tower to be live streamed on Amazon’s Twitch channel. The live stream event was the first performance of the band’s newly released sixth studio album.
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In April 2020, Deadline announced that the band wrote and performed the theme song, “The Journey Starts Today”, for the English dub of “Pokémon Journeys: The Series“.
In November 2020, they collaborated with Canadian country singer Brett Kissel on “A Few Good Stories”.
In August 2022, Walk Off the Earth performed at the Ambleside Music Festival along with others, including The Offspring, St. Paul and The Broken Bones and Marianas Trench.
On March 18, 2022, Walk Off the Earth recruited D Smoke, who had appeared in Netflix’s Rhythm + Flow, for their anthem, “Bet on Me”.
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