Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to I've never said this before with me,
Speaker 1: Tommy di Dario. Today, my friends, you are in for
Speaker 1: a treat because I have on one of the most
Speaker 1: brilliant artists in the world. I actually don't understand how
Speaker 1: someone is born with so much musical talent. This guy
Speaker 1: just opens his mouth and I don't know heaven comes out,
Speaker 1: but I guess it makes sense given the beyond talented
Speaker 1: family that it comes from. I am referring to the
Speaker 1: wonderful Matteo Bocelli. Matteo recently released his debut album and
Speaker 1: is currently on his first ever global headline tour. Now
Speaker 1: let's talk about the album for a minute. It features
Speaker 1: twelve tracks and it's a mix of English and his
Speaker 1: native Italian, and his sound is so uniquely him. If
Speaker 1: you mix the traditional opera and then throw in some
Speaker 1: pop and throw in some beautiful Italian with some really
Speaker 1: great beats, you get Mateo. The album is Mateo was
Speaker 1: first solo step into the spotlight.
Speaker 2: And yes he.
Speaker 1: Has released music previously with his father, the incredible Andrea Bocelli,
Speaker 1: but this album is his baby, and man, it is
Speaker 1: so good. Today we really get to know the man
Speaker 1: behind such a magical voice. So let's see if we
Speaker 1: can get Matteo Bocelli to say some things that he
Speaker 1: has never said before. Matteo, how are you, my friend?
Speaker 1: It's great to see you.
Speaker 2: I'm very good thanking you.
Speaker 1: I am fantastic you right now? Are in Italy? Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly one of my favorite places in the world. I'm
Speaker 1: half Italian. I'm an Italian American, so I wish I
Speaker 1: spoke the language. But I love Italy. It's the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really a nice place. Yeah. Sometimes people say
Speaker 2: it's too much a holiday place. No, I can imagine
Speaker 2: like living in Italy and working. People see it only
Speaker 2: as the vocation place, but it's it is nice to
Speaker 2: live here.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you one day, I wouldn't mind living there,
Speaker 1: so I would see it as a living and vacation
Speaker 1: and all the fun things. But anyway, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: I'm so psyched to dive into everything that's been going
Speaker 1: on with you and your career. I've been following you.
Speaker 1: It's really cool to see all the good things going
Speaker 1: on in your life. But before we touch on all
Speaker 1: of that, I'm so curious Mattello. I would love to
Speaker 1: know do you remember the exact moment when you were
Speaker 1: growing up that you thought, oh man, I have to perform,
Speaker 1: I have to be an artist. Yes, it's in your family,
Speaker 1: we all know that. But like, what was the moment
Speaker 1: for you where you said, this is what I need
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, music has always been part of my life.
Speaker 2: I mean listening to music since I was in my
Speaker 2: mom's belly and I started to play the kind at
Speaker 2: the age of six years old. Singing has always been
Speaker 2: something that I was doing, you know, by myself. And yes, definitely,
Speaker 2: like you see, you know, like growing up, I feel
Speaker 2: it and I saw that, you know, this passion, this
Speaker 2: need of music was always you know, like growing and growing.
Speaker 2: And I wasn't like really like thinking of one day
Speaker 2: I want to be a singer. I was just simply
Speaker 2: enjoying music, you know, until you know, I was, you know,
Speaker 2: growing up at the age of you know, eight, ten
Speaker 2: years old, twelve, I was bothering my father, sound engineer.
Speaker 2: I was like, please give me some some time. I
Speaker 2: want to record this song rather than another one. And
Speaker 2: that was you know, the first kind of alarm. And
Speaker 2: then yes, I was trying to because my father, obviously
Speaker 2: he's never been the type of father that was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're great. He was like always okay, yeah, but you
Speaker 2: have to study more here. And so I was trying
Speaker 2: to get opinions from outside the family, you know. And
Speaker 2: so I remember sending my songs also to David Foster
Speaker 2: that was working with my father to see the reaction
Speaker 2: now and then him, David, he asked me to make
Speaker 2: a record with him when I was seventeen years old.
Speaker 2: My father was like, you're too young, You're not ready.
Speaker 2: It was worried because you know what the music industry
Speaker 2: is about. And I was like, I know, I'm missing
Speaker 2: a great opportunity. But still I was probably too young
Speaker 2: to fight, you know, with my family. But then followed
Speaker 2: me happened in twenty eighteen, at the time I was nineteen,
Speaker 2: and that's where I understood that something like bigger was happening.
Speaker 2: In fact, the song had quite a good success. I
Speaker 2: always say music wants authenticity. You know, you can fake
Speaker 2: you can because it's about emotions and people are gonna
Speaker 2: feel it. And I remember, yeah, because the song was,
Speaker 2: you know, speaking about the relationship between father and son,
Speaker 2: and it's always been you know, quite powerful, the one
Speaker 2: between me and my father. We share so many passions
Speaker 2: and I always love to hang out with him and
Speaker 2: to spend time with him. And yeah, people failt it.
Speaker 2: The song had a great success, and then the label
Speaker 2: wanted to sign, and so I signed to Capitol, and
Speaker 2: then yeah, I had the lock to have a great
Speaker 2: team since the beginning.
Speaker 1: Well, what's so cool about your story is you're somebody
Speaker 1: who was very patient and letting this all kind of
Speaker 1: happen when it was supposed to. You very easily could
Speaker 1: have said no, I want this record out now, or
Speaker 1: I want to do this when I'm eighteen nineteen, and
Speaker 1: you let timing happen as it should, and here you
Speaker 1: are today. Your album dropped in September. It's fantastic. It
Speaker 1: must be such a cool feeling knowing that for the
Speaker 1: first time in your career, you're out on your own,
Speaker 1: like this is your baby, this is yours. You poured
Speaker 1: your heart and soul into this as a solo artist.
Speaker 1: Were you nervous embarking on this new chapter as a
Speaker 1: solo artist?
Speaker 2: Yes, I was. But at the same time, even though
Speaker 2: the I was sharing the you know, the first six
Speaker 2: for instance, at the beginning with my father, but I
Speaker 2: had this huge jump from you know, singing a home
Speaker 2: by myself to performing on the most important TV show,
Speaker 2: most important stages, you know, like Madisal Square Garden rather
Speaker 2: than Hollywootball. And theorically wasn't ready. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: you know, the passion, the love makes you do things
Speaker 2: that you couldn't image, you know. And so I started
Speaker 2: to tour at least a couple of years, maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit more with my father. So I was, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of making my first experiences and being more relaxed
Speaker 2: on stage and enjoying the moment. But the big big
Speaker 2: step it's been obviously my first own concert where obviously
Speaker 2: you know that people are coming to the show just
Speaker 2: to listen to your voice, to yourself, where you know,
Speaker 2: you don't sing any more four or five songs a show,
Speaker 2: but you perform almost to any songs. It's different anybody.
Speaker 2: It's as you said, it gives you so much satisfaction.
Speaker 1: And what I love about you is you have such
Speaker 1: a unique sound. It's your sound. You really kind of
Speaker 1: figured out what you wanted to put out there. So
Speaker 1: talk to me about that. Because you aren't a carbon
Speaker 1: copy of anyone. You are your own sound, which is
Speaker 1: just brilliant.
Speaker 2: I really hope. I mean, this is the you know,
Speaker 2: the most beautiful compliment I think an artist can get,
Speaker 2: and it's you know, it's it's not even easy when
Speaker 2: sometimes they ask you what type of genre you make?
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, generically i'd say probably pop because that's
Speaker 2: always been kind of like my goal, my way of
Speaker 2: you know, making music whenever it's about, you know, singing.
Speaker 2: But then I mean I think kind of like everybody
Speaker 2: ends up making music the same way, you know, unless
Speaker 2: you're not. I mean sometimes even DJs they don't sing,
Speaker 2: but still they put voices on their music. So it's
Speaker 2: about I think, first of all, it's the message you
Speaker 2: want to deliver, you know. I think everything for me
Speaker 2: starts from there. The message guide me also on the music,
Speaker 2: you know, because whenever you have a message of feeling
Speaker 2: inside and I see it at the piano, kind of
Speaker 2: like the music comes itself, you know. But then, yes,
Speaker 2: you make I mean, you make a song and then
Speaker 2: you produce your own way the way you feel it. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I was born in a family where opera and classical
Speaker 2: music was the main genre music. But so I'm really
Speaker 2: into songs that are first of all, I like to
Speaker 2: focus on my voice, but not because not for an
Speaker 2: ego reason, but simply because that's what I want to get,
Speaker 2: you know. I like when whenever I listen to a record,
Speaker 2: where like, for example, whenever you listen to Adele, you
Speaker 2: can really feel her voice, you know, hitting your there,
Speaker 2: it's there, and then obviously everything that is around it
Speaker 2: is super important. But normally I like to keep it easy,
Speaker 2: you know, like whenever there's an orchestra, there's a piano,
Speaker 2: and there's a there's a guitar. In this moment of
Speaker 2: my life, in this phase, I'm looking for a very
Speaker 2: natural and sound.
Speaker 1: Well, you certainly have that. And to your point, yes,
Speaker 1: you were born and raised in this classical opera setting
Speaker 1: an environment, but you don't seem to feel the pressure
Speaker 1: to have to do only that because you really did
Speaker 1: find your own sound, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: To this I always found quite funny know that you
Speaker 2: have been feeling the pressure for the last name you bring.
Speaker 2: I think you just have to be proud of it
Speaker 2: if you think that your father, you know, brought a
Speaker 2: good message, you know, made music with a good purpose.
Speaker 2: So I've always been proud to be a Bucelli and
Speaker 2: I think that then obviously, yes, what you feel is
Speaker 2: that especially you know, in this first step, most of
Speaker 2: the people that come see my shows are people that
Speaker 2: knows me through my father. So people expect you to
Speaker 2: make the same music, you know, to perform on stage
Speaker 2: opera rather than crossover. So it takes time to bring
Speaker 2: that audience into your music. But I think it's a
Speaker 2: beautiful journey. I like the challenge and so I think
Speaker 2: it's more this the expectation to have people waiting for
Speaker 2: you to perform that type of music and already at
Speaker 2: the highest level. No, instead of you know, we all
Speaker 2: need time to grow, we will need time to process
Speaker 2: your music. But I mean, I'm truly in a very
Speaker 2: positive moment. I enjoy every single minute. Truly.
Speaker 1: What I like about your debut album is there something
Speaker 1: for everybody? I mean a song or two of yours
Speaker 1: will come on in the gym and I'm like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I co work out to this, like yes, there's and
Speaker 1: then you have the more the ballads and the Italian
Speaker 1: like there's something for everybody. So for you, is there?
Speaker 1: And I know this is such a hard question. There
Speaker 1: are all your babies, but is there a song or
Speaker 1: two that's particularly special for you when you perform it
Speaker 1: off your album.
Speaker 2: It's not easy. There's a okay. There are a couple
Speaker 2: of songs part of my album. One specifically that I
Speaker 2: wrote is Honesty. I started from whenever we did that song,
Speaker 2: I started from a concept no, to be honest that
Speaker 2: obviously you know it's quite common as a topic probably,
Speaker 2: but at the same time, it's to be honest. It's
Speaker 2: always been like a thing for me since I was
Speaker 2: a child, not because as you can imagine, I've always
Speaker 2: been surrounded because of my father of people obviously yes
Speaker 2: that loves you, but also other people that are there
Speaker 2: just for your last name, just because just to take
Speaker 2: advantage of your position, and as a kid, you kind
Speaker 2: of like feel all these vibes, no, all this, and
Speaker 2: it's my challenge has always been that one to try
Speaker 2: to find people that are honest to me, people that
Speaker 2: are with me child because of myself, because of the
Speaker 2: person that I am, and not for what I have.
Speaker 2: And so for example, that writing of the song started
Speaker 2: from that, like concepts, and then specifically I wrote about
Speaker 2: a person that is very It's been very meaningful in
Speaker 2: my life. It's been kind of a mentor not on
Speaker 2: my career, but on my three like day to day life.
Speaker 2: You know, the person that you can tell anything about
Speaker 2: and it's always going to have like a good word,
Speaker 2: a good suggestion, you know. And I think that's that's
Speaker 2: a real treasure. That's a real treasure you can find
Speaker 2: in life, because I think it's everything. Know, you can
Speaker 2: have everything, but then if you can't appreciate what you
Speaker 2: have because I don't know, because you have a problem
Speaker 2: because it's not it's not the same. So that's one
Speaker 2: that's one song, honesty. But also there are songs that
Speaker 2: I didn't write that still gives me so much satisfaction.
Speaker 2: For example, Caruso, there's a song written by Lucidala, and
Speaker 2: that's the song that usually I keep at the end
Speaker 2: of the concert because people swear I switch the tone
Speaker 2: of my voice and I go from pop to into
Speaker 2: a more classical, you know, use of the voice. And
Speaker 2: it's fun. It's fun because at the end, you know,
Speaker 2: what can kind of like distinguish you from someone else.
Speaker 2: It's obviously the color of the voice. Now and I
Speaker 2: think the voice it's kind of like the colors on
Speaker 2: for a piece of art, you know, the more amount
Speaker 2: of colors and nuances you can use, and the better
Speaker 2: it is, and so I enjoy, you know, using in
Speaker 2: the same song the more pop sound and the more
Speaker 2: classical one. I think the contrast of the two it's
Speaker 2: it's it's cool.
Speaker 1: You like to give the audience a thrill and you
Speaker 1: like to say, hey, you just wait to what I'm
Speaker 1: going to pull out a mass leave next. I know
Speaker 1: what you do. You save the big, the big moment
Speaker 1: for the end, which is brilliant. I gets the sense
Speaker 1: that you're very inspired by your family and your upbringing
Speaker 1: and your values and your morals and you put that
Speaker 1: all into your writing, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It is like that. Obviously, family has always played on
Speaker 2: an important role in my life. My father always, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he focused a lot on us the importance of family
Speaker 2: because at the end thereically, you know, families are the
Speaker 2: people that protects you know, the people that are going
Speaker 2: to always be there for you. But also at the
Speaker 2: same time, you know, whenever you speak about music, we
Speaker 2: are constantly inspired by everything that surrounds us. I mean,
Speaker 2: I hope, I mean, I guess it should be like that.
Speaker 2: At least, you know, you can be inspired by a
Speaker 2: book you read rather than a movie rather than someone
Speaker 2: that you meet for the first time. Definitely. So again,
Speaker 2: family is important, but since you leave it, since you're little,
Speaker 2: you get more original and more exciting things from outside
Speaker 2: obviously what you keep inside over the family art. The
Speaker 2: velis that that your family raised you up with well,
Speaker 2: and you're talking about real life experience too that you
Speaker 2: put into your work, and you're writing that you have
Speaker 2: to go experience life outside of your family like we
Speaker 2: all do.
Speaker 1: So it's evident there's themes of that in your in
Speaker 1: your music as well. You have such an eclectic, interesting style,
Speaker 1: as I've already told you, and it's one that I
Speaker 1: haven't heard anywhere else. That was interesting when you said
Speaker 1: that's a big compliment for an artist, because I never
Speaker 1: thought about it like that. But I imagine now thinking
Speaker 1: about it and hearing that back in my head. That's
Speaker 1: what you do want as an artist. But I'm curious
Speaker 1: what artists inspire you that are around today. Are you
Speaker 1: a big fan of anyone that you're like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: really dig their style.
Speaker 2: Well, I probably who follows some of my interviews it's
Speaker 2: now bored or annoyed by, but it is because I
Speaker 2: always say the same name. I always say like that
Speaker 2: at Scheering has always been you know, the person the
Speaker 2: artist that inspire me the most, especially because whenever I
Speaker 2: find not only the artistic part that is powerful, but
Speaker 2: also the human being you know, side is whenever the
Speaker 2: two things are like grades, it's even more I think powerful,
Speaker 2: you know. And I had the chance to meet at
Speaker 2: several times, and it's not just an amazing artist, it's
Speaker 2: also an amazing human being. And again, when the two
Speaker 2: things goes together, it's very powerful. And I think that
Speaker 2: that's what people, you know, get whenever they listen to
Speaker 2: his music, whenever they go listen to our counture of him.
Speaker 2: I remember him opening for Teto Swift. That's the very
Speaker 2: first time I saw him. He was in Toronto, and
Speaker 2: I was simply, you know, impressed, impressed by his the
Speaker 2: way he's so humble on stage, You just you know,
Speaker 2: go on stage and show people what he's always been
Speaker 2: great at again in a very easy, in an easy
Speaker 2: way to catch everyone.
Speaker 1: Did you ever think he would end up writing a
Speaker 1: song for you?
Speaker 2: Well, actually I never had the honor to write a
Speaker 2: song together with him, but in this first album, there's
Speaker 2: a song that I received from him and his brother
Speaker 2: Matthew that it's called Chasing Stars. And yeah, I'm very
Speaker 2: proud of that song. Again, it's a song that he wrote.
Speaker 2: But whenever I listened to that song, I was like, whoa,
Speaker 2: it sounds like he wrote the song for me, because
Speaker 2: if you read the lyrics there are some similar things
Speaker 2: between me and him about our childhood. We both have
Speaker 2: you know, like dad that were in love with music
Speaker 2: and they wanted to pass this passion into their kids.
Speaker 2: And that happened both to me an ed and you know,
Speaker 2: it's we both had a family that's always I don't know,
Speaker 2: kind of like give. I think, you know, so much
Speaker 2: love and so much positivity to their kids and to
Speaker 2: never stop, you know, chasing your dream because at the end,
Speaker 2: obviously after a certain age, maybe it doesn't make sense
Speaker 2: anymore to chase dreams. No, I don't know, I'm not
Speaker 2: here to judge that part, but definitely I think it's
Speaker 2: very important to chase whatever makes you happy, you know,
Speaker 2: because at the end, I think that's the goal of
Speaker 2: this life. I think it's the goal is to live
Speaker 2: a happy life and to try to be meaningful to
Speaker 2: someone else.
Speaker 1: Mmmm. Well said, Well said my friend that's such an
Speaker 1: important lesson for all of us to remember.
Speaker 2: I'm not here to give lessons. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: but but it's simply the way I see I see
Speaker 2: this life.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's how you live it. It's how you
Speaker 1: live it. It's not it's not you saying something you
Speaker 1: know in judgment, it's you showing how you live every
Speaker 1: single day. And I think that's so important to have
Speaker 1: that reminder. Because we have one life, we have to
Speaker 1: make it the best we can, right, very true. Do
Speaker 1: you think down the line at some point you and
Speaker 1: Ed might collaborate on something.
Speaker 2: I have to deserve it. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: deserve to have one of his songs. So I'm just
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just already so happy to have had
Speaker 2: that gift from him. But obviously in the future, if
Speaker 2: there'll be a chance to make something together, I would
Speaker 2: love to.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think the world would also love that
Speaker 1: very very much. Mateo, You've been performing for so long.
Speaker 1: I'm so curious to somebody like you who's on this
Speaker 1: amazing world tour and has been performing for quite some time.
Speaker 1: Do you get nervous? Do you get pre show jitters
Speaker 1: or you're just like I got this.
Speaker 2: Let's say that you have to have the confidence with
Speaker 2: your voice and the confidence to say I know that
Speaker 2: I can handle this cunsure easily. And then obviously at
Speaker 2: the same time you do get nervous because, unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 2: the voice is not like a It's not like a
Speaker 2: guitar that if you break a string, you fix it
Speaker 2: and you keep going on. Fortunately, the voice, it's very fragile.
Speaker 2: You have to respect it and you have to do
Speaker 2: the best you can to be in a good shape. So,
Speaker 2: at least for me, whenever I'm on tour, I don't
Speaker 2: touch any type of alcohol. I don't I have to
Speaker 2: respect a certain diet because I do feel the difference
Speaker 2: whenever I don't do this, even though I'm very young.
Speaker 2: But then you know, only God knows. So you go
Speaker 2: on stage and you have that kind of like fear
Speaker 2: no to not have the voice good enough. But then
Speaker 2: you know, usually after the second third song, you get
Speaker 2: way more relaxed than you enjoy the concert.
Speaker 1: Do you have a ritual you have to do before
Speaker 1: every single show? Are you superstitious? Is there one thing
Speaker 1: you have to do or you just kind of go
Speaker 1: out there and have fun.
Speaker 2: No, not big superstitious things. Honestly, the only thing that
Speaker 2: I always do is obviously a good warm up, which
Speaker 2: I think that's the only thing that really can save you,
Speaker 2: even when the voice is not very good, you know,
Speaker 2: like very in a good shape. That's the only thing
Speaker 2: that can really help you. Together with the diet. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: because you know, digest for some reason is a very
Speaker 2: big impact on the voice. So if you eat too
Speaker 2: close to the performance, it's it's risky.
Speaker 1: See things that we would never know you have to
Speaker 1: think about, but you do. That's really really cool. And
Speaker 1: how has the tour been going?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: You've been all around the world. You're hit in America
Speaker 1: very soon. How's it been going?
Speaker 2: But it's been going great. I did my very first
Speaker 2: tour October November twenty twenty three in Europe. Then I
Speaker 2: did the America and the US one at the end
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three, so it was like end of
Speaker 2: November December. Then I stopped for Christmas and then I
Speaker 2: got back. Now with the first Australian tour. I've been
Speaker 2: in Australia and I did four concerts there. The four
Speaker 2: main cities Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Now I'm coming
Speaker 2: back to us. I'm very excited. I have eight concerts
Speaker 2: there and again already planning more concerts at the end
Speaker 2: all of this year.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Well, I know everyone can't wait for that,
Speaker 1: And meter you. I'm always so interested with people like
Speaker 1: you who have this very high performing job and you've
Speaker 1: been doing it for a really long time now, and
Speaker 1: it's just kind of something that a lot of teenagers,
Speaker 1: for example, don't have experience doing. You kind of go
Speaker 1: through more traditional ways of life, right, and you get
Speaker 1: a job when you're a bit but you've been working
Speaker 1: now for a minute, and again you're doing something very
Speaker 1: high profile and very taxing on the body and on
Speaker 1: the voice, and you're living your dreams, which is the
Speaker 1: best part of it all. So I guess this question
Speaker 1: is two different parts. The first part is growing up
Speaker 1: in the family that you grew up in, did you
Speaker 1: get a great piece of advice that maybe you haven't
Speaker 1: talked about before that somebody gave you to pursue your
Speaker 1: own dreams? And then the second part is do you
Speaker 1: have a piece of advice for anyone going after their dreams?
Speaker 2: Definitely, it's easier to answer to the first question because
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's easier to say to tell like
Speaker 2: a suggestion that you received rather than give a suggestions
Speaker 2: because it's not Again, obviously, yes I can. I can
Speaker 2: tell one based on my life experience. But mainly I
Speaker 2: you know, I got suggestions from my father because he's
Speaker 2: always been the type of person, the type of father
Speaker 2: that I really wanted to have, you know, conversations with
Speaker 2: their kids. You always found that very important, even though
Speaker 2: he was traveling a lot and I don't know because
Speaker 2: he you know, he passed on me so many things,
Speaker 2: many many, many the ones more about the vocal technique
Speaker 2: rather than you know, how to approach this specific career,
Speaker 2: but also more generic suggestions for life. So if I
Speaker 2: had to pick up one, whatever you make, always make
Speaker 2: it with enthusiasm and kind of like love, you know,
Speaker 2: because even though in this first moment of your life
Speaker 2: you may not be doing what you really love, probably
Speaker 2: what you're doing is going to bring you there. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you cannot always do what you love, but you have
Speaker 2: to learn to love what you do. I think sometimes
Speaker 2: that the secret of people that at the end they
Speaker 2: get what they really want. There's some other people that
Speaker 2: say no, no, no, you have you simply have to chase
Speaker 2: what you love and don't care about what people say around.
Speaker 2: It is true because if I think that, yes, you
Speaker 2: do really have to work hard and be focused on
Speaker 2: that specific thing if that's your dream. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, you know, we have to be realistic. You
Speaker 2: can like of being like Worring Buffett if you don't
Speaker 2: start from the basic or if you don't start from
Speaker 2: like a first job. You know, but yeah, this is this,
Speaker 2: this suggests I would give. It's kind of this one
Speaker 2: like I had the luck to kind of like do
Speaker 2: what I loved since the beginning, even though I had
Speaker 2: to to fight a little bit with my father because
Speaker 2: it was like, you know, you have to study, you
Speaker 2: have to and it is important. It is important to study.
Speaker 2: It is important to get a degree. At the same time,
Speaker 2: it's not I have to say, it's not fundamental if
Speaker 2: you want to have a music career. No, because you
Speaker 2: see so many people with a degree and then they
Speaker 2: have a more basic kind of like job even about music,
Speaker 2: you know, like you and there's some that don't get
Speaker 2: a degree and they become superstars. But I think that
Speaker 2: at the bottom it is important to have, like a culture.
Speaker 2: Not because even though it's not so important for your job,
Speaker 2: but still it's important for yourself. I think at the end,
Speaker 2: the knowledge, I think it's the biggest kind of tool
Speaker 2: you can have to defend yourself, to protect yourself for anything,
Speaker 2: so for your career, for yourself in general, you know.
Speaker 2: So yes, with my father, I was like, you have
Speaker 2: to study this, you have to say, but yes, I
Speaker 2: mean if I love to do music, I have to
Speaker 2: study for what I love. So I'm going to study,
Speaker 2: you know, at the conservative of music, and then I'm
Speaker 2: going to try this. If at the end i'm I
Speaker 2: won't be you know enough, you'll find something else. But
Speaker 2: I'm more for etchieran philosophy. You know, I only have
Speaker 2: plan A, and A was to become you know, a singer,
Speaker 2: no matter what the level was. But for me, it's
Speaker 2: kind of the same philosophy. That's that's what I want
Speaker 2: to do in life. I'm not thinking of of a
Speaker 2: plan B. But if ever in life will happen, you'll think,
Speaker 2: you know, on that moment, certainly not.
Speaker 1: Now, let's just pop in my head when you were talking,
Speaker 1: because having a backup plan, having a safety plan is
Speaker 1: something that many people are encouraged to do. But when
Speaker 1: you love something so much and you only see that
Speaker 1: as your future, that's a powerful thing. And I wonder
Speaker 1: if fast forward from you know, little Mateo to you
Speaker 1: performing at the Academy Awards this year, when you came
Speaker 1: out and you send time to say goodbye, which was
Speaker 1: just one of the most beautiful moments of the entire ceremony.
Speaker 1: And I know you just dropped that single a month
Speaker 1: or so ago. Was that a really special moment for you?
Speaker 2: It was special because I was performing in front of
Speaker 2: so many talents, and that was a thing, the hardest part,
Speaker 2: but also times say goodbye. It's been the song that
Speaker 2: made my father successful all over the world. So I
Speaker 2: was a very delicate moment in any way. So but
Speaker 2: I'm happy because luckily it went very good and I
Speaker 2: had the chance to meet a lot of interesting people.
Speaker 1: And yes, it is. It's now a beautiful memory, a
Speaker 1: really beautiful memory. Let's tell you as we wrap up,
Speaker 1: the name of this show is called I've never said
Speaker 1: this before, so I'm wondering, is there anything that you
Speaker 1: can think of that comes to the top of your
Speaker 1: mind that you want to share today?
Speaker 2: How stupid and the House Heroes has to be the.
Speaker 1: Answer whatever you want it to be. It could be
Speaker 1: anything silly, serious, it's up to you.
Speaker 2: Something that I've never said before that is a little
Speaker 2: bit weird is that I always have to align all
Speaker 2: the light switch. It is a little bit weird because
Speaker 2: it is but like every time I, for example, I
Speaker 2: have to switch off all the lights, you know, and
Speaker 2: in the same room there are more light switch. They
Speaker 2: always have to be in the position of like a
Speaker 2: specific position. I can't see the light switch in disorder.
Speaker 2: They have to be perfectly aligned.
Speaker 1: Wow. So like every single that makes.
Speaker 2: Because I know I'm not the only one. People that
Speaker 2: does this will understand, I what's the feeling.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. So every single light switch on a wall
Speaker 1: like either has to be down or up or you'll
Speaker 1: focus on.
Speaker 2: That when it's off as to be up.
Speaker 1: You know what, I can relate. I'm a little OCD myself,
Speaker 1: so if something's out of place that's bothering me, it's
Speaker 1: like all I can focus on and someone will be
Speaker 1: talking to me and they'll be like, why are you
Speaker 1: staring at the candle? Well, because it's turned too far
Speaker 1: to the left. I need it to the right, so
Speaker 1: you know exactly what I'm talking about. Yes, I do,
Speaker 1: and I maybe it's an Italian thing. I don't know
Speaker 1: because I have a lot of issues with many things
Speaker 1: that need to be in place. So I'm with you
Speaker 1: on that. Well, that's that's something I certainly have never
Speaker 1: heard before from anyone. So thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, this has been so much fun.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for everything going on in your career.
Speaker 1: Like I said, your album's fantastic. I'm so happy for
Speaker 1: you on the tour. You're continuing to perform all over
Speaker 1: the place, so everybody can look forward to following your adventures.
Speaker 1: What is the best way for people to see if
Speaker 1: you add more tour dates than to follow your career?
Speaker 1: Where should we all go?
Speaker 2: We're definitely on my socials, but also I have a website,
Speaker 2: my table Shady do It, and there you can find
Speaker 2: all the infut and yeah, I hope to see there
Speaker 2: for my concorts.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, my friend, it was great talking
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so much.
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