Matchbox Twenty (or MB20, MBT, M20, originally spelled Matchbox 20) is a rock band formed in Orlando, Florida.

Matchbox Twenty has sold over 44 million albums worldwide from the releases of Yourself or Someone Like You, Mad Season, and More Than You Think You Are. They released their latest album, Exile on Mainstream, on October 2, 2007. The current members of the band are Rob Thomas, Paul Doucette, Brian Yale, and Kyle Cook. Rhythm guitarist Adam Gaynor left the band in 2005, after performing on their first three studio albums. Rob Thomas is the principal songwriter and lead singer. Rob Thomas has created a well-established solo career for himself after releasing the album, ?Something to Be.

Robert Kelly Thomas (born February 14, 1972, in Landstuhl, Germany on a US military base) is an American rock recording artist, and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and formerly of the band Tabitha's Secret. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist.

Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Carlos Santana triple-platinum hit "Smooth" on the album Supernatural in 1999.

He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.

Since 1996, his band, Matchbox Twenty, has released a string of hit singles to radio including "Push", "3 A.M.", "Real World", "Back 2 Good", "Bent", "If You're Gone", "Mad Season", "Disease", "Unwell", "Bright Lights", and "How Far We've Come". In 2004, the Songwriters Hall of Fame awarded Thomas its first Starlight Award, recognizing young songwriters who have already made a lasting impact in the music industry.

"Smooth" is a duet by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas, the latter of the rock group Matchbox Twenty. The song was written by Rob Thomas and Itaal Shur and sung by Rob Thomas. Originally conceived by Shur as a song called "Room 17", the lyrics were stripped off and the track was given to Thomas. Thomas re-wrote the lyrics and melody and re-titled it "Smooth". Thomas's original thought was to have George Michael sing the song. Thomas recorded the song as a demo to play for Santana. After hearing the song being sung by Thomas, Santana decided to have Thomas record the final version.VH1.com : Matchbox Twenty - Rhapsody Music Downloads Matt Serletic produced the record and it was released from Carlos Santana's album Supernatural and became a massive hit in 1999, spending twelve weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 at the end of that year. It was the first chart-topping song in Santana's long-running career (his previous biggest hit being "Black Magic Woman", number four in 1971). According to some charting standards, Smooth is Billboard's most popular song of all time. Though some songs have spent longer than 12 weeks at #1, when combining total sales during the entire time the song has charted, Smooth ranks higher than any other.

The song won three Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. It spent a record-breaking ten consecutive weeks at the top of the VSpot Top 20 Countdown, a record that held up until the Dixie Chicks broke it in 2006. According to Billboards Hottest Hot 100 Hits by Fred Bronson, this is the #1 song of The Nineties (2003).

The song features a Latin-influenced feel, inspired by the classic Santana song, "Guajira".

The lyrics seem to praise an unnamed woman in the exuberant fashion of Petrarchs Renaissance poetry, only to pose an ultimatum ("Give me your heart/Make it real/Or else forget about it") to her and abruptly break off this praise, similarly to Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. Actually, Rob Thomas wrote this song for his wife, Marisol Thomas. They got married in 1999, after they met backstage in 1998. Of Spanish origin, she was the inspiration behind the song, such as behind the line: "My muñequita, my Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa"