WEBVTT - Matteo Bocelli 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:05.480 Hey, guys, welcome to I've never said this before with me, 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.559 Tommy di Dario. Today, my friends, you are in for 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.080 a treat because I have on one of the most 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:16.360 brilliant artists in the world. I actually don't understand how 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.640 someone is born with so much musical talent. This guy 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.880 just opens his mouth and I don't know heaven comes out, 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.600 but I guess it makes sense given the beyond talented 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.520 family that it comes from. I am referring to the 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:35.559 wonderful Matteo Bocelli. Matteo recently released his debut album and 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.400 is currently on his first ever global headline tour. Now 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.120 let's talk about the album for a minute. It features 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.159 twelve tracks and it's a mix of English and his 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:49.840 native Italian, and his sound is so uniquely him. If 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.159 you mix the traditional opera and then throw in some 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.360 pop and throw in some beautiful Italian with some really 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.200 great beats, you get Mateo. The album is Mateo was 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.640 first solo step into the spotlight. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:03.480 And yes he. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:08.160 Has released music previously with his father, the incredible Andrea Bocelli, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.240 but this album is his baby, and man, it is 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.759 so good. Today we really get to know the man 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.280 behind such a magical voice. So let's see if we 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.440 can get Matteo Bocelli to say some things that he 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:30.280 has never said before. Matteo, how are you, my friend? 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:31.160 It's great to see you. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:32.880 I'm very good thanking you. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.199 I am fantastic you right now? Are in Italy? Right, yeah, 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.440 exactly one of my favorite places in the world. I'm 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.399 half Italian. I'm an Italian American, so I wish I 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.360 spoke the language. But I love Italy. It's the best. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.559 Yeah, it's really a nice place. Yeah. Sometimes people say 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.400 it's too much a holiday place. No, I can imagine 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.760 like living in Italy and working. People see it only 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.320 as the vocation place, but it's it is nice to 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:03.040 live here. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.560 Let me tell you one day, I wouldn't mind living there, 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.360 so I would see it as a living and vacation 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.799 and all the fun things. But anyway, welcome to the show. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.240 I'm so psyched to dive into everything that's been going 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.480 on with you and your career. I've been following you. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.040 It's really cool to see all the good things going 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.720 on in your life. But before we touch on all 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.720 of that, I'm so curious Mattello. I would love to 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.120 know do you remember the exact moment when you were 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.640 growing up that you thought, oh man, I have to perform, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.960 I have to be an artist. Yes, it's in your family, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.160 we all know that. But like, what was the moment 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.400 for you where you said, this is what I need 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:37.799 to do. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.040 Well, Yeah, music has always been part of my life. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.200 I mean listening to music since I was in my 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.080 mom's belly and I started to play the kind at 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.040 the age of six years old. Singing has always been 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.920 something that I was doing, you know, by myself. And yes, definitely, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.640 like you see, you know, like growing up, I feel 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.720 it and I saw that, you know, this passion, this 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.840 need of music was always you know, like growing and growing. 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.720 And I wasn't like really like thinking of one day 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.239 I want to be a singer. I was just simply 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.960 enjoying music, you know, until you know, I was, you know, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.640 growing up at the age of you know, eight, ten 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.760 years old, twelve, I was bothering my father, sound engineer. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.800 I was like, please give me some some time. I 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.760 want to record this song rather than another one. And 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.240 that was you know, the first kind of alarm. And 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.160 then yes, I was trying to because my father, obviously 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.760 he's never been the type of father that was like, yeah, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.320 you're great. He was like always okay, yeah, but you 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.320 have to study more here. And so I was trying 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.560 to get opinions from outside the family, you know. And 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.960 so I remember sending my songs also to David Foster 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.760 that was working with my father to see the reaction 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:56.640 now and then him, David, he asked me to make 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.840 a record with him when I was seventeen years old. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.440 My father was like, you're too young, You're not ready. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.280 It was worried because you know what the music industry 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.040 is about. And I was like, I know, I'm missing 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.880 a great opportunity. But still I was probably too young 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:19.680 to fight, you know, with my family. But then followed 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.480 me happened in twenty eighteen, at the time I was nineteen, 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:29.360 and that's where I understood that something like bigger was happening. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.320 In fact, the song had quite a good success. I 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.560 always say music wants authenticity. You know, you can fake 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.600 you can because it's about emotions and people are gonna 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.960 feel it. And I remember, yeah, because the song was, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.920 you know, speaking about the relationship between father and son, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.839 and it's always been you know, quite powerful, the one 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.960 between me and my father. We share so many passions 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.960 and I always love to hang out with him and 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.960 to spend time with him. And yeah, people failt it. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.440 The song had a great success, and then the label 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.040 wanted to sign, and so I signed to Capitol, and 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.840 then yeah, I had the lock to have a great 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:13.960 team since the beginning. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.839 Well, what's so cool about your story is you're somebody 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.440 who was very patient and letting this all kind of 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.760 happen when it was supposed to. You very easily could 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.800 have said no, I want this record out now, or 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.320 I want to do this when I'm eighteen nineteen, and 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.760 you let timing happen as it should, and here you 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.760 are today. Your album dropped in September. It's fantastic. It 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.880 must be such a cool feeling knowing that for the 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.799 first time in your career, you're out on your own, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.760 like this is your baby, this is yours. You poured 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.799 your heart and soul into this as a solo artist. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.279 Were you nervous embarking on this new chapter as a 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:53.480 solo artist? 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.240 Yes, I was. But at the same time, even though 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.960 the I was sharing the you know, the first six 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.800 for instance, at the beginning with my father, but I 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.960 had this huge jump from you know, singing a home 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:10.680 by myself to performing on the most important TV show, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.040 most important stages, you know, like Madisal Square Garden rather 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.839 than Hollywootball. And theorically wasn't ready. But at the same time, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:23.679 you know, the passion, the love makes you do things 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.120 that you couldn't image, you know. And so I started 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.000 to tour at least a couple of years, maybe a little 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.080 bit more with my father. So I was, you know, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.120 kind of making my first experiences and being more relaxed 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.719 on stage and enjoying the moment. But the big big 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:44.280 step it's been obviously my first own concert where obviously 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.840 you know that people are coming to the show just 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.480 to listen to your voice, to yourself, where you know, 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.360 you don't sing any more four or five songs a show, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.360 but you perform almost to any songs. It's different anybody. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.600 It's as you said, it gives you so much satisfaction. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.000 And what I love about you is you have such 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:07.039 a unique sound. It's your sound. You really kind of 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.520 figured out what you wanted to put out there. So 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.840 talk to me about that. Because you aren't a carbon 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.360 copy of anyone. You are your own sound, which is 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:16.800 just brilliant. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.800 I really hope. I mean, this is the you know, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.800 the most beautiful compliment I think an artist can get, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.360 and it's you know, it's it's not even easy when 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.880 sometimes they ask you what type of genre you make? 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.680 I mean, obviously, generically i'd say probably pop because that's 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.720 always been kind of like my goal, my way of 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.960 you know, making music whenever it's about, you know, singing. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.560 But then I mean I think kind of like everybody 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.640 ends up making music the same way, you know, unless 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.160 you're not. I mean sometimes even DJs they don't sing, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.760 but still they put voices on their music. So it's 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.120 about I think, first of all, it's the message you 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.600 want to deliver, you know. I think everything for me 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:04.280 starts from there. The message guide me also on the music, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.640 you know, because whenever you have a message of feeling 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.840 inside and I see it at the piano, kind of 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.200 like the music comes itself, you know. But then, yes, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.760 you make I mean, you make a song and then 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.480 you produce your own way the way you feel it. Obviously, 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.720 I was born in a family where opera and classical 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.520 music was the main genre music. But so I'm really 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.960 into songs that are first of all, I like to 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.560 focus on my voice, but not because not for an 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.720 ego reason, but simply because that's what I want to get, 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.360 you know. I like when whenever I listen to a record, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.680 where like, for example, whenever you listen to Adele, you 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.319 can really feel her voice, you know, hitting your there, 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.240 it's there, and then obviously everything that is around it 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.720 is super important. But normally I like to keep it easy, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.120 you know, like whenever there's an orchestra, there's a piano, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.800 and there's a there's a guitar. In this moment of 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.839 my life, in this phase, I'm looking for a very 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.720 natural and sound. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.080 Well, you certainly have that. And to your point, yes, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.840 you were born and raised in this classical opera setting 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.440 an environment, but you don't seem to feel the pressure 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.840 to have to do only that because you really did 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.640 find your own sound, which is pretty cool. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.559 To this I always found quite funny know that you 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.840 have been feeling the pressure for the last name you bring. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.760 I think you just have to be proud of it 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.079 if you think that your father, you know, brought a 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.959 good message, you know, made music with a good purpose. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.880 So I've always been proud to be a Bucelli and 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.080 I think that then obviously, yes, what you feel is 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.800 that especially you know, in this first step, most of 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.000 the people that come see my shows are people that 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.880 knows me through my father. So people expect you to 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.280 make the same music, you know, to perform on stage 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.439 opera rather than crossover. So it takes time to bring 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.240 that audience into your music. But I think it's a 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.520 beautiful journey. I like the challenge and so I think 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.720 it's more this the expectation to have people waiting for 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:13.400 you to perform that type of music and already at 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.800 the highest level. No, instead of you know, we all 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.640 need time to grow, we will need time to process 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.360 your music. But I mean, I'm truly in a very 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:29.160 positive moment. I enjoy every single minute. Truly. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.720 What I like about your debut album is there something 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.120 for everybody? I mean a song or two of yours 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.800 will come on in the gym and I'm like, oh yeah, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.360 I co work out to this, like yes, there's and 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.680 then you have the more the ballads and the Italian 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.000 like there's something for everybody. So for you, is there? 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.760 And I know this is such a hard question. There 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.560 are all your babies, but is there a song or 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.600 two that's particularly special for you when you perform it 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.040 off your album. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.720 It's not easy. There's a okay. There are a couple 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.680 of songs part of my album. One specifically that I 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:06.760 wrote is Honesty. I started from whenever we did that song, 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.280 I started from a concept no, to be honest that 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:15.120 obviously you know it's quite common as a topic probably, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.600 but at the same time, it's to be honest. It's 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.000 always been like a thing for me since I was 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.040 a child, not because as you can imagine, I've always 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.520 been surrounded because of my father of people obviously yes 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.560 that loves you, but also other people that are there 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.240 just for your last name, just because just to take 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:39.280 advantage of your position, and as a kid, you kind 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:44.719 of like feel all these vibes, no, all this, and 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.480 it's my challenge has always been that one to try 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.760 to find people that are honest to me, people that 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.880 are with me child because of myself, because of the 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.079 person that I am, and not for what I have. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.800 And so for example, that writing of the song started 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:06.040 from that, like concepts, and then specifically I wrote about 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.320 a person that is very It's been very meaningful in 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.840 my life. It's been kind of a mentor not on 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.079 my career, but on my three like day to day life. 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.320 You know, the person that you can tell anything about 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.440 and it's always going to have like a good word, 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.920 a good suggestion, you know. And I think that's that's 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.360 a real treasure. That's a real treasure you can find 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.719 in life, because I think it's everything. Know, you can 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.280 have everything, but then if you can't appreciate what you 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.520 have because I don't know, because you have a problem 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.760 because it's not it's not the same. So that's one 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.800 that's one song, honesty. But also there are songs that 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.280 I didn't write that still gives me so much satisfaction. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.040 For example, Caruso, there's a song written by Lucidala, and 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.880 that's the song that usually I keep at the end 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.880 of the concert because people swear I switch the tone 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.920 of my voice and I go from pop to into 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.040 a more classical, you know, use of the voice. And 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.720 it's fun. It's fun because at the end, you know, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.760 what can kind of like distinguish you from someone else. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.800 It's obviously the color of the voice. Now and I 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.680 think the voice it's kind of like the colors on 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.800 for a piece of art, you know, the more amount 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.160 of colors and nuances you can use, and the better 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.200 it is, and so I enjoy, you know, using in 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.520 the same song the more pop sound and the more 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.400 classical one. I think the contrast of the two it's 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:41.360 it's it's cool. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.360 You like to give the audience a thrill and you 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.600 like to say, hey, you just wait to what I'm 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.760 going to pull out a mass leave next. I know 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.360 what you do. You save the big, the big moment 0:13:50.440 --> 0:14:00.600 for the end, which is brilliant. I gets the sense 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.800 that you're very inspired by your family and your upbringing 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.440 and your values and your morals and you put that 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.480 all into your writing, right, Yeah. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.440 It is like that. Obviously, family has always played on 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.520 an important role in my life. My father always, Yeah, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:22.240 he focused a lot on us the importance of family 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.840 because at the end thereically, you know, families are the 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.520 people that protects you know, the people that are going 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.600 to always be there for you. But also at the 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.640 same time, you know, whenever you speak about music, we 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:38.000 are constantly inspired by everything that surrounds us. I mean, 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.400 I hope, I mean, I guess it should be like that. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.160 At least, you know, you can be inspired by a 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.360 book you read rather than a movie rather than someone 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.680 that you meet for the first time. Definitely. So again, 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.680 family is important, but since you leave it, since you're little, 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.720 you get more original and more exciting things from outside 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.240 obviously what you keep inside over the family art. The 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.600 velis that that your family raised you up with well, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.360 and you're talking about real life experience too that you 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.200 put into your work, and you're writing that you have 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.720 to go experience life outside of your family like we 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:13.160 all do. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.280 So it's evident there's themes of that in your in 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:20.880 your music as well. You have such an eclectic, interesting style, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.080 as I've already told you, and it's one that I 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.800 haven't heard anywhere else. That was interesting when you said 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.720 that's a big compliment for an artist, because I never 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.120 thought about it like that. But I imagine now thinking 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.280 about it and hearing that back in my head. That's 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.080 what you do want as an artist. But I'm curious 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.360 what artists inspire you that are around today. Are you 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.120 a big fan of anyone that you're like, yeah, I 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.120 really dig their style. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.840 Well, I probably who follows some of my interviews it's 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:53.040 now bored or annoyed by, but it is because I 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.400 always say the same name. I always say like that 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.280 at Scheering has always been you know, the person the 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.600 artist that inspire me the most, especially because whenever I 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.080 find not only the artistic part that is powerful, but 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:11.640 also the human being you know, side is whenever the 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.480 two things are like grades, it's even more I think powerful, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.120 you know. And I had the chance to meet at 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.720 several times, and it's not just an amazing artist, it's 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.080 also an amazing human being. And again, when the two 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.680 things goes together, it's very powerful. And I think that 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.440 that's what people, you know, get whenever they listen to 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.280 his music, whenever they go listen to our counture of him. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.640 I remember him opening for Teto Swift. That's the very 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.760 first time I saw him. He was in Toronto, and 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.160 I was simply, you know, impressed, impressed by his the 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.920 way he's so humble on stage, You just you know, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.200 go on stage and show people what he's always been 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.520 great at again in a very easy, in an easy 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:03.760 way to catch everyone. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.000 Did you ever think he would end up writing a 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:06.520 song for you? 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.760 Well, actually I never had the honor to write a 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.400 song together with him, but in this first album, there's 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.960 a song that I received from him and his brother 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:21.680 Matthew that it's called Chasing Stars. And yeah, I'm very 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.480 proud of that song. Again, it's a song that he wrote. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.600 But whenever I listened to that song, I was like, whoa, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.200 it sounds like he wrote the song for me, because 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:38.320 if you read the lyrics there are some similar things 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.119 between me and him about our childhood. We both have 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.919 you know, like dad that were in love with music 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.919 and they wanted to pass this passion into their kids. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.080 And that happened both to me an ed and you know, 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:58.040 it's we both had a family that's always I don't know, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.720 kind of like give. I think, you know, so much 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.240 love and so much positivity to their kids and to 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.520 never stop, you know, chasing your dream because at the end, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.600 obviously after a certain age, maybe it doesn't make sense 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.520 anymore to chase dreams. No, I don't know, I'm not 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.120 here to judge that part, but definitely I think it's 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:23.639 very important to chase whatever makes you happy, you know, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.320 because at the end, I think that's the goal of 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.440 this life. I think it's the goal is to live 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.480 a happy life and to try to be meaningful to 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:34.080 someone else. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.560 Mmmm. Well said, Well said my friend that's such an 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.720 important lesson for all of us to remember. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.560 I'm not here to give lessons. I don't know, but 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.520 but but it's simply the way I see I see 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:47.760 this life. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.560 It's yeah, it's how you live it. It's how you 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.040 live it. It's not it's not you saying something you 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.760 know in judgment, it's you showing how you live every 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.920 single day. And I think that's so important to have 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.040 that reminder. Because we have one life, we have to 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.520 make it the best we can, right, very true. Do 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.800 you think down the line at some point you and 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:11.479 Ed might collaborate on something. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.720 I have to deserve it. I don't know if I 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.480 deserve to have one of his songs. So I'm just 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.680 you know, I'm just already so happy to have had 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.080 that gift from him. But obviously in the future, if 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.800 there'll be a chance to make something together, I would 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:29.159 love to. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.360 Oh yeah, I think the world would also love that 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.560 very very much. Mateo, You've been performing for so long. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.639 I'm so curious to somebody like you who's on this 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.080 amazing world tour and has been performing for quite some time. 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.560 Do you get nervous? Do you get pre show jitters 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.480 or you're just like I got this. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:53.199 Let's say that you have to have the confidence with 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.720 your voice and the confidence to say I know that 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.000 I can handle this cunsure easily. And then obviously at 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:06.560 the same time you do get nervous because, unfortunately, you know, 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.280 the voice is not like a It's not like a 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.359 guitar that if you break a string, you fix it 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:17.600 and you keep going on. Fortunately, the voice, it's very fragile. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:20.440 You have to respect it and you have to do 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.439 the best you can to be in a good shape. So, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.080 at least for me, whenever I'm on tour, I don't 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.080 touch any type of alcohol. I don't I have to 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.600 respect a certain diet because I do feel the difference 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.080 whenever I don't do this, even though I'm very young. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.320 But then you know, only God knows. So you go 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.720 on stage and you have that kind of like fear 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:51.160 no to not have the voice good enough. But then 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.480 you know, usually after the second third song, you get 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.280 way more relaxed than you enjoy the concert. 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.479 Do you have a ritual you have to do before 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.760 every single show? Are you superstitious? Is there one thing 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:06.480 you have to do or you just kind of go 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:07.359 out there and have fun. 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:13.359 No, not big superstitious things. Honestly, the only thing that 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:17.200 I always do is obviously a good warm up, which 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.840 I think that's the only thing that really can save you, 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.520 even when the voice is not very good, you know, 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.920 like very in a good shape. That's the only thing 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:32.679 that can really help you. Together with the diet. Yeah, yeah, 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.040 because you know, digest for some reason is a very 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.679 big impact on the voice. So if you eat too 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:43.159 close to the performance, it's it's risky. 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.679 See things that we would never know you have to 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.439 think about, but you do. That's really really cool. And 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:49.560 how has the tour been going? 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:49.760 Man? 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.640 You've been all around the world. You're hit in America 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:54.359 very soon. How's it been going? 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.680 But it's been going great. I did my very first 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:02.879 tour October November twenty twenty three in Europe. Then I 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.360 did the America and the US one at the end 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:07.720 of twenty twenty three, so it was like end of 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:13.840 November December. Then I stopped for Christmas and then I 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:17.959