Parry Gripp

Parry Gripp
Parry Gripp performing live in Japan
Background information
Birth name	Parry Gripp
Born	(1967-09-22) September 22, 1967 (age 49) Santa Barbara, California
Genres	Rock
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Labels	Oglio
Associated acts	Nerf Herder
Website	Official website

Parry Gripp (born September 22, 1967 in Santa Barbara, California) is a singer-songwriter as well as lead vocalist and guitarist for the pop punk band Nerf Herder. He is best known for his songs in Roblox.

As a songwriter, Gripp is best known for fake jingles, as in his 2005 solo album For Those About to Shop, We Salute You - a 51-track concept album mimicking various musical styles as product commercials. It does not have one single concept; it goes through many various concept suites, such as trucks, beer, and insomnia. He also maintains a song-of-the-week website and a YouTube channel on which he creates soundtracks to internet memes as well as music videos for his own novelty songs, with titles including "Do You Like Waffles?", "Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom," "Last Train to Awesometown," "Spaghetti Cat (I Weep For You)," "Hamster on a Piano (Eating Popcorn)," "There's a Cat Licking Your Birthday Cake", "Wiener Dog Riding a Skateboard", "I Am A Banana," and "Baby Monkey (Going Backwards On A Pig)."

Along with his phony jingles, Gripp also has created some true advertising music, such as a series of Beatles-inspired tunes promoting the Wawa Food Markets' summertime Hoagiefests and songs for the Hallmark Cards e-characters hoops&yoyo.

Gripp also performs the Being Ian, The Super Hero Squad Show, Ben 10: Omniverse, and The 7D theme songs.

Gripp also joined forces with MC Lars to perform some of the vocals, including the chorus to "Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Doesn't Make You Slash)," a song commenting on the notion that video games like Guitar Hero take kids away from playing in bands and actually learning their instruments.