Telepathic Teddy Bear

Juan Carlos Padilla was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico. He became interested in music at the age of 9 and after searching for drum lessons he finally found someone that would take him despite his legs being too short to reach the pedals.

He studied guitar at the age of 14 and piano at the age of 17. In all cases where he took up a musical instrument, he would eventually discard his teachers in favor of self-directed learning.

He went to Berklee College of Music at the age of 21 where he specialized in film scoring. He kept producing music while at Berklee, influences from DJ Shadow to Bjork were the basis of his style.

He returned home to Monterrey in 2004 after graduation and began DJing at local bars where he would indulge in spinning house music for the electronic crowd to some success as well as creating and performing his orchestral style music for a handful of local theatre productions.

In 2008, he would create his first self-titled EP as Telepathic Teddy Bear. His influences at the moment (Rufus Wainwright, Sufjan Stevens, Bjork) can be heard in the EP although it shifted more towards a mainly electro indie style due to his recording constraints.

After the release of his first EP (July, 2010), he recorded a 9 song album named Reactions (August, 2011).