![]() Thanks to his Colombian-American upbringing, ¿Téo? has a wide range of influences. Like when I was in Medellín, I was writing songs only in Spanish." Sometimes it's my surroundings and environment. "Once I start working on a song, I know what language it is going to be in. "I'm not doing Spanglish anymore," he says. With Luna, he decided each song would have lyrics in only one language. Previously, his standard songwriting tended to include a Spanish verse and an English bridge. ![]() I had a bunch of other songs that didn't really fit Sol. They were more blue, so I saved them for this record - so I have Luna and Sol," he explains. "Both are 12 songs - 24 total like there are 24 hours in the day." Luna, ¿Téo? has found his firm footing with this third album. But there's a saying - I might be murdering it - that everything you desire in life is on the other side of fear." "It's a different set of nervousness being myself on stage. The two worlds complement each other, but I'd been in front of a camera for years, so acting was never scary," he explains. Although it would seem acting would prepare him for a career in music, ¿Téo? considers them to be very different. He continued to play and eventually started taking guitar lessons. Undeterred, his mom bought him a keyboard. "I didn't know how to read music, but I played every day until the receptionist kicked me out for playing the same three notes." "I was like 8 or 9, and every day I messed around with that piano," he says. (¿Téo?'s brother is actor Moises Arias.) In between auditions and appearing in shows like Hannah Montana and Kickin' It, ¿Téo? became intrigued by the piano in the lobby of the apartment complex where his family lived. The brothers proved proficient in English and showed enough acting chops that the family moved to Los Angeles to allow them to pursue acting. When he started learning English, he taught me." I wasn't really around Americans until I went to school. "It was like a pseudo-Colombian culture my family kept me around. "I didn't speak English until I was 4," he says. Growing up in Atlanta, Arias' Colombian parents hung around other expats. His newest album, Luna, due out later this year, shows off his bilingualism with nine tracks in English and three in Spanish. ![]() Though ¿Téo? carries Spanish-language punctuation in his stage name, the singer-songwriter (born Mateo Arias) feels equally comfortable singing in either Spanish or English.
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