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中文名 钢琴达人
外文名 the piano guys
性  质 音乐组合
代表作 Love Story Meets Viva La Vida
艺人资料
The Piano Guys直译为“钢琴男孩儿”，台湾翻译成“酷音乐团”。apple music在中国区上架后，有译“钢琴达人”。作为Neo-classical目前的代表性乐团之一，初衷是创造出能够激励人们的音乐和视频，想将自己的音乐带给这个世界。The Piano Guys改编的古典音乐融合自然、过渡流畅，MV拍摄优美大气、富于想象力。
他们推出的音乐视频制作巧妙，画面优美很适合边听边看。他们常常为了达到最唯美震撼的效果到不同地方取景，甚至把钢琴搬到一些意想不到的地方，让乐迷惊叹不已。他们在Youtube上的点击率超高，全球各地都有粉丝。他们在2012年7月曾经说过要想办法到长城上演奏，结果真的在天津蓟县黄崖关长城实现了。钢琴是从真武殿位置用吊车吊上长城后再由人抬钢琴就位。这就是《功夫魔琴：大提琴的崛起》。
The Piano Guys的前身是美国犹他州圣乔治的一家乐器店。某天，Paul在店里等客人，Jon Schmidt走进来，希望能够借一架钢琴来为自己要演出的音乐会练习。Paul被Jon Schmidt的音乐天赋震惊了，之后他们就开始一起做MV。
2012年1月发行合集《The Piano Guys: Hits Volume 1》。3月发行录音室专辑《Beethoven's 5 Secrets》。9月发行录音室专辑《The Cello Song》，《Just the Way You Are》，《All of Me》和《Cello Wars》。10月发行录音室专辑《The Piano Guys》。
2013年5月发行录音室专辑《The Piano Guys 2》。10月发行录音室专辑《A Family Christmas》。
2014年10月发行录音室专辑《Wonders》。
2015年发行现场专辑《Live!》。
2016年4月发行单曲《The Jungle Book / Sarabande》。
The Piano Guys are an American musical group consisting of Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp Nelson, Paul Anderson, and Al van der Beek. They gained popularity through YouTube, where they posted piano and cello renditions of popular songs and classical music. Schmidt and Nelson's music is accompanied by professional-quality videos shot and edited by Paul Anderson and formerly by Tel Stewart. Their first four major-label albums ‘The Piano Guys’, ‘The Piano Guys 2’, ‘A Family Christmas’, and ‘Wonders’ each reached number one on the ‘Billboard’ New Age Albums and Classical Albums charts.
Paul Anderson owned a piano shop in St. George, Utah. He met musician Jon Schmidt as the latter walked in to ask if he could practice there for an upcoming concert. Months later, Paul Anderson and Tel Stewart (then just for fun) started making videos together with Jon Schmidt. Not too long after that, they did their first collaboration with Jon Schmidt, along with Steven Sharp Nelson and Al Van Der Beek, studio and music technicians. After the five of them started collaborating, the group took off, producing a music video each week and posting it to YouTube.
Several of the group's YouTube videos have over 20 million views, while each of them has over 750,000. As of October 2015, The Piano Guys' YouTube channel had more than half a billion total video views and over four million subscribers. In June 2011, The Piano Guys won the "Most Up-and-Coming Channel" award in the YouTube "On the Rise" contest with "Michael Meets Mozart" with Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson.
In September 2012, it was announced that the Piano Guys had been signed by Sony.This resulted in a worldwide release of the album ‘The Piano Guys’, followed in 2013 by ‘The Piano Guys 2’, and ‘Wonders’ in 2014.
Single “Fight Song / Amazing Grace”was released in August 2015.”A Sky Full of Stars”was released on October.Live album ‘Live!’was released in November.
Single “Hello / Lacrimosa”was released on January 2016.Single “The Jungle Book / Sarabande”was released in April.