About the artist
Gaten Matarazzo is an American actor and singer, best known for playing Dustin Henderson in the Netflix series Stranger Things. Before television, he trained as a stage performer, appearing on Broadway as Benjamin in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and as young Gavroche in Les Misérables, roles that gave him early experience with live singing and musical theatre.
As a vocalist he is associated with musical-theatre and pop-adjacent material rather than a single defined genre, with recordings tied to stage and screen projects such as «Never Ending Story», «God, That’s Good!», «Not While I’m Around» and «Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir», the latter two drawn from the Sweeney Todd musical repertoire. He also fronts the indie rock band Work In Progress, giving him a separate outlet outside musical theatre.
Matarazzo is publicly known for living with cleidocranial dysplasia, a condition he shares with his Stranger Things character, and he uses his visibility to raise awareness and funds for CCD Smiles, an organization supporting people with the condition. His public profile blends acting, musical-theatre singing, and advocacy work more than a conventional recording career.