Stro Elliot
Brian Roberson, known professionally as Stro Elliot, is an American record producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently a member of the hip hop band The Roots, having joined the band in 2017. Elliot plays keyboards, percussion, and does sampling with The Roots in the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. As a multi-instrumentalist, Stro employs elements of beatbox, percussion, sampling, tambourine, finger drumming, and keyboards.
Elliot was living in Los Angeles, CA for fifteen years before joining The Roots in 2017 after being invited by Questlove. He has cited DJ Jazzy Jeff as one of his mentors, who encouraged him to take the job on The Tonight Show.
Stro Elliot was an original member of The Procussions, an underground rap group that formed in 1998 in Colorado Springs, along with Mr. J. Medeiros, Resonant (aka Rez), Qq, and Vise Versa. The Procussions toured with Common, the Pharcyde, Xzibit, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Run-DMC and Ugly Duckling.
Elliot is a classically trained musician, who grew up playing guitar, piano, trumpet, and drums.
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