Questlove is a six-time GRAMMY Award-winning musician, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, drummer, DJ, producer, director, culinary entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, co-founder of the Roots, and the musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , where the Roots serves as the house band. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Mo' Meta Blues , Creative Quest , Music Is History, and his first children's book series, The Rhythm of Time, as well as the James Beard Award-nominated somethingtofoodabout , Mixtape Potluck , and Grammy-nominated audiobook Creative Quest. Questlove made his directorial debut with the Academy Award, GRAMMY Award, BAFTA Award-winning documentary film Summer of Soul, which broke the record for the highest-selling documentary to come out of the Sundance Film Festival. He is the publisher of AUWA Books, an imprint of MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Sean Qualls 's work is a mixed-media combination of painting, drawing, and collage. He has illustrated many picture books, including Before John Was a Jazz Giant , which received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award; The Poet Slave of Cuba , a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book; Dizzy ,an ALA Notable Book and a Kirkus Reviews , School Library Journal , and Child magazine best book, as well as BCCB Blue Ribbon Book and a Booklist Editor's Choice; and Emmanuel's Dream , which was a Schneider Award winner. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.