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name: "Merrill Garbus"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/merrill-garbus"
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T09:08:15.144130+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Merrill Garbus

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Boots Riley](https://film.one/person/boots-riley.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1770678

## Coming up

- *I Love Boosters* (2026-05-21), Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/i-love-boosters.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Sorry to Bother You*](https://film.one/film/sorry-to-bother-you.md) (81)

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## Biography

Merrill Garbus is a composer and musician. With Nate Brenner she forms the duo tUnE-yArDs. She composed the original score for Boots Riley’s film *Sorry to Bother You* (2018).

Garbus has maintained a collaboration with Riley, scoring the television series *I’m a Virgo* (2023) and the film *I Love Boosters* (2026).

*Sources: imdb.com, crookedmarquee.com, a2zsoundtrack.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sorry to Bother You* (2018), Fi1m 81, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/sorry-to-bother-you.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *I Love Boosters* (2026), Original Music Composer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/i-love-boosters.md)
- *I'm a Virgo* (2023), series, Original Music Composer
- *Sorry to Bother You* (2018), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/sorry-to-bother-you.md)
- *Contemporary Color* (2016), Acting

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