New York Giant

From Dee Snider to Taylor Dayne and Melanie Martinez, Baldwin has spawned a long line of successful musicians. Now another local is returning to the area with a Grammy Award-winning band: Baldwin’s Marty Beller, 46, drummer for They Might Be Giants, will appear with the band at the Paramount in Huntington on Friday.

They Might Be Giants, which was formed in Brooklyn by John Flansburgh and John Linnell, actually has two members from Long Island. Bassist Danny Weinkauf hails from Lynbrook.

The group, noted for its unconventional and experimental style of music, is currently on a 60-week, worldwide tour that includes dates in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe. Its Nassau County natives, of course, are pleased to be revisiting their old stomping grounds. “We haven’t played on Long Island in a while,” Weinkauf told the Herald, “so I’m looking forward to that.”

The group is unusual in that it found success on the modern rock charts, but has also delved into children’s music and theme songs for television and film. It has released 15 studio albums, including one platinum record, “Flood,” and three albums of children’s music that have all been certified gold. The band has won two Grammys, one in 2002 for the song “Boss of Me,” which was the theme song for the TV show “Malcolm in the Middle.” The group won a second Grammy in 2009 for “Here Come the 123s.” In all, it has sold more than 4 million records.

Beller’s association with the band began in 2000, when Weinkauf asked him to fill in for drummer Dan Hickey, who had a scheduling conflict. Prior to his work with TMBG, Beller was touring with his own band, Meow. After his initial appearance with TMBG, he provided spot drumming and percussion, and contributed two songs to a 2003 CD and book called “Bed, Bed, Bed.” He became the group’s full-time drummer in early 2004, when Hickey left the band.

Since joining TMBG full-time, Beller has written and sung “Alphabet Lost And Found” on the “Here Come the ABCs” album, “High Five!” on “Here Come the 123s” and “Speed And Velocity” on “Here Comes Science.”

In addition to his work with TMBG, Beller and Dan Miller, the group’s lead guitarist and vocalist, run a music production firm called MartyDan Industries. The duo have created music for film and TV, including the Emmy Award-winning documentary “The Cruise” and commercials for Wrangler and Dunkin’ Donuts.

Beller appears to thoroughly enjoy his time with TMBG. He is frequently introduced at concerts as “The next president of the United States, Marty Beller,” and the song “Marty Beller Mask” suggested that he was actually Whitney Houston disguised in a Marty Beller mask. (The band retired the song after Houston’s death.)

Beller is married and has a son and a daughter. He lives in New York City.