Theo Croker | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Theodore Lee Croker |
Born | Leesburg, Florida, U.S. | July 18, 1985
Genres | Jazz, hip hop, pop |
Occupation(s) | Musician, trumpeter, composer, record producer, vocalist |
Instrument | Trumpet |
Years active | 2000–present |
Labels | Sony, Okeh, Arbors |
Website | theocroker |
Theodore Lee Croker (July 18, 1985) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, producer and vocalist. He is a Grammy Award nominee, three-time Echo Award nominee, as well as a Theodore Presser Award recipient.
Croker has released seven studio albums — Fundamentals (2006), In the Tradition (2009), Afro Physicist (2014), Escape Velocity (2016), Star People Nation (2019), BLK2Life / A Future Past (2021) and Love Quantum (2022). He has also been featured on J. Cole's 4 Your Eyez Only (2016) and Common's Black America Again (2016) and Ari Lennox's debut album, Shea Butter Baby (2019).