Tame Impala

Tame Impala is the project of Australian musician Kevin Parker (b January 20, 1986), who writes, records and produces all the material.

Born and raised in Perth, an isolated city on the west coast of Australia, Parker took up the drums aged 11, and began recording on his family's two tape decks.

Tame Impala emerged in 2007 as a Kevin Parker home-recording project. Parker's father was an accountant from Zimbabwe, and his mother came from South Africa. The name Tame Impala, after the fleet-footed antelope, derives from Parker's African connections.