Zachary "Zac" Wayne Farro, born June 4th, 1990 (age 33) was the first and current drummer for the neutral-genre band, Paramore, to which he is also one of the founding members of.
Early life
Zac was born on June 4, 1990 in Voorhees, New Jersey. Farro co-founded the band in 2004. He is the middle child of five children (Nate, Joshua, himself, Jonathan, and Isabelle). He started playing drums when he got drum lessons for his birthday at the age of nine and got his first drum set at the age of eleven.
He would mostly rehearse with his brother every day after school and on weekends.
Zac has a house in Los Angeles, California, but currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
Paramore
Joining the band at the age of 12, Zac was its youngest member. He along with his older brother Josh Farro, were part of Paramore's original lineup along with Hayley Williams and Jeremy Davis, with Jeremy being unsure if anybody would take the band seriously due to Farro's young age, until he saw him play.
He and Josh left the band in mid-December 2010. He remained relatively silent, with just Josh commenting on their split from Paramore.
Career Outside of Paramore
After his departure from Paramore, Zac had started a new band - a project, at the time - named HalfNoise, along with friend Jason Clark, the latter leaving the band circa 2011 and leaving Farro as the only member. Jason was originally a member of the garage band that Josh Farro, Taylor York, and Zac had started before all three members joined Paramore.
He was also in another band named Novel American along with his brother Josh, he replaced the band's former drummer Tyler Ward after his departure in 2011. The band split in 2014 due to not being able to find a suitable vocalist. He also recorded drums for Josh's debut album.
Zac, alongside a fellow artist, runs an indie record label called Congrats. The label is based in Nashville and supports local artists. They wanted an old-school "feel-good" direction and loved the idea of a classic handshake to represent "congratulations" to any artist releasing some music.
Zac is a director and a photographer. He co-directed the 'Told You So' music video with Aaron Joseph and directed the 'Fake Happy' music video. He also directed/co-directed various HalfNoise's music videos and some others, including for Hayley's solo project, with the song 'Dead Horse'.
In February 2020, he released a photo book called 'In Transit': "In Transit is the first photography book of mine. I shoot only film photography, so I thought having a physical place for these photos to live was fitting. It’s a hardback book consisting of travel photography & personal commentary".
Return to Paramore
Starting from June 2016 when Paramore first began work on their new album, numerous pictures of Zac started appearing with Paramore even on with him behind a drum kit, making fans start to speculate that he was returning to the band. However, he stated that he was only recording drums for the album and had not returned to the band full time. On August 12, in a podcast for Billboard, he commented that the most important thing to him was to reignite his friendship with the band and that being in the studio together "felt like he and Paramore haven't skipped a beat''.
On February 2, 2017, Paramore announced on social media that Farro would be returning to the band full time. His return was met with joy and positive reception from fans.
He also performed the songs 'Scooby's in the Back', 'French Class', and 'All That Love Is' by his band HalfNoise at various Paramore gigs during the After Laughter tour cycle, with Hayley and Taylor performing backup vocals.
Equipment
Zac's drum kit equipment has changed over the years, starting out with several Truth Custom drum kits before switching to Gretch. However it seems from that he has now switched to Ludwig.
His cymbals have also changed over the years with him switching from Meinl Byzance before switching to Zildjian K. However it appears that he has recently switched to Istanbul cymbals.
All of the kits' heads consist of Remo Coated Emperor and Remo Clear Powerstroke 3.
He is also endorsed by Promark. His drumsticks consists of his own custom Promark Millenium II Sticks signature sticks.
Featured Albums
Paramore
HalfNoise
Hayley Williams
Others
- 'The Greatest Part' - Becca Mancari
Trivia
- His nicknames are Z and Zac.
- He, along with Josh are of Italian descent.
- Zac occasionally contributed to the process of writing songs.
- Zac was one of Paramore's founding members.
- He has an Instagram: @zacfarro
- He has a Twitter: @zacfarro
- He has a website: zacfarro.co
- He is particularly close friends with rhythm guitarist Taylor York, which made Hayley Williams believe that Taylor would leave Paramore after Josh and Zac's departure.
- Along with Aaron Joseph, he co-directed the music video for the song 'Told You So'.
- He directed the music video for Hayley's solo project Petals For Armor's 'Dead Horse'.
- He also played drums on two songs of Hayley's solo album.
- Zac is currently dating musician Kayla Graninger (also known as ELKE).
- With his return in 2016, he and Hayley are the only members who were part of the band's original 2004 lineup.
- He (along with Hayley and Taylor) has his own signature color for the After Laughter Era, his being blue, Taylor's being yellow and Hayley's being red.
- He is the youngest member of Paramore, being only 12 when starting the band.
Current Members
Zac
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Former Members
Touring Members
Former Touring Members
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All We Know is Falling |
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| Songs | All We Know • Pressure • Emergency • Brighter • Here We Go Again • Never Let This Go • Whoa • Conspiracy • Franklin • My Heart |
| Bonus Tracks | Oh Star • This Circle |
| Members | Hayley Williams • Josh Farro • Jason Bynum • Zac Farro |
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Riot! |
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| Songs | For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic • That's What You Get • Hallelujah • Misery Business • When It Rains • Let the Flames Begin • Miracle • Crushcrushcrush • We Are Broken • Fences • Born for This |
| Bonus Tracks | When It Rains (Demo Version) • Misery Business (Acoustic) • Temporary • Decoy • My Hero • Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody) • Rewind |
| Members | Hayley Williams • Josh Farro • Jeremy Davis • Zac Farro |
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Brand New Eyes |
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| Songs | Careful • Ignorance • Playing God • Brick By Boring Brick • Turn It Off • The Only Exception • Feeling Sorry • Looking Up • Where the Lines Overlap • Misguided Ghosts • All I Wanted |
| Bonus Tracks | Decode • Ignorance (Acoustic Version) • Where the Lines Overlap (Acoustic Version) • Brick By Boring Brick (Acoustic Version) • Turn It Off (Acoustic) |
| Members | Hayley Williams • Josh Farro • Taylor York • Jeremy Davis • Zac Farro |
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After Laughter |
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| Songs | Hard Times • Rose-Colored Boy • Told You So • Forgiveness • Fake Happy • 26 • Pool • Grudges • Caught in the Middle • Idle Worship • No Friend • Tell Me How |
| Members | Hayley Williams • Taylor York • Zac Farro |
