Walk off the Earth are a Canadian indie rock band that was formed in 2006. The band began releasing music independently and created a variety of cover versions of songs including The Gregory Brothers. In early 2012, the band’s live cover of “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. The band released an accompanying video in which all five members are shown playing on the same guitar simultaneously. The production was taken from the 26th cut of a 14-hour session. Ellen DeGeneres featured the band on her January 23, 2012, show where they played live, again on one guitar; the group was also included in YouTube Rewind 2012 “Rewind YouTube Style 2012”, doing a part of its one-guitar acoustic version of “Gangnam Style”.
In December 2012, Walk off the Earth released an original single titled “Gang of Rhythm”. In March 2013, Rolling Stone streamed their unreleased R.E.V.O. album in its entirety. The full-length R.E.V.O. album was released in March, after which they commenced in the R.E.V.O. Tour through the US and Europe. They began another US and Europe tour, Gang of Rhythm, in 2014. The most recent tour was the Sing It All Away tour through Europe and North America, which began in 2015. The band’s YouTube video of Lorde’s “Royals” was featured in the 2014 Grammy Awards. The band’s original single “Gang of Rhythm” was chosen as the theme song for the Catalan TV show El Foraster. The group was also featured on the soundtrack of the 2015 animated film Snowtime!, performing the song “You’re My Sweater”. Walk off the Earth won a 2016 Juno award for Group of the Year.
In December 2018, it was announced that band member Mike “Beard Guy” Taylor had died from natural causes. In January 2019, the band announced it would be continuing on its 2019 tour. In a video posted to their social media pages, the four members thanked their family, friends, and fans, stating that their tour would be devoted to honouring Taylor’s memory.
In June 2021 Walk Off the Earth released “Love You Right” as the lead single from their upcoming sixth studio album. “Love You Right” would mark their first collaboration with Grammy nominated Danish group Lukas Graham. The single received over a million streams in less than a week. The accompanying music video was directed by Chris Di Staulo. The band released their sixth studio album, “Meet You There”, across all digital music platforms in July 2021. In August 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 bands newly released sixth studio album.
In September 2021 the band released their first original 7-track children’s album, Romeo Eats Vol. 1 via Golden Carrot Records/The Orchard. The album arrived alongside the group’s children’s companion web series, “Romeo Eats,” a food discovery show hosted by Walk Off the Earth lead singer Gianni Luminati and his 3-year-old son Romeo. Each “Romeo Eats” episode shows Romeo trying new foods, and includes an original song produced by Walk Off the Earth that features the explored food in question. The songs were subsequently released on album as Walk Off the Earth & Romeo Eats, Vol. 1; the album’s Juno Award nomination for Children’s Album of the Year at the Juno Awards 2022 made Romeo the youngest Juno nominee in the entire history of the awards.
