It was from here that he started gaining traction in the world of music. In 2017, Aranda won Artist of the Year with CSUN and Five of Five Entertainment. As a keyboardist, guitarist and back up singer, they opened for artists like Beck, played festivals and even made an appearance on the Conan O’Brien Show. Following that Twin Shadow asked him to go on the road with him as a musician in 2018. It was here that Aranda played his first show, playing the piano as people came to the show. In 2016, Twin Shadow played a tribute to Prince at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He also helped Aranda by giving him a laptop and everything he needed to produce music. From then on, Twin Shadow believed in him, offering him odd jobs and teaching him music production. Twin Shadow messaged him back and asked him to come over. Of this time, he said it took him a year to get comfortable with singing and playing in front of people.Īranda was discovered by Twin Shadow on Instagram after he reached out to Twin Shadow and sent him a clip of music he was working on. Busking on the streets of Pomona, CA he got comfortable with being himself in front of people, he also played at Open Mic Nights and backyard concerts, basically wherever he could. He started playing the piano and picked up guitar around the age of 19 or 20. Aranda used the music to deal with his emotions and feelings. Of this time, he has also admitted that he was seriously depressed most of his life. He started paying attention to the calling he had. The incident was referenced in the lyrics of his song "Millennial Love". While Aranda was thankfully able to extricate himself from the machinery without any serious injuries, the situation served as a wake-up call to the young virtuoso and it was then that he decided to pursue music seriously.
If I wasn't wearing that, it would have basically ran my whole hand through it.” … It got stuck in between, and then it caught my flannel shirt I was wearing a long sleeve and it caught. “I was working at a warehouse and I got my hand stuck in the conveyor belt, and I could've really lost my hand. “When I turned 20, I almost lost my hand,” Aranda, now age 25, reveals to Yahoo Entertainment. He started taking music seriously when he almost injured his hand in a factory working and the sleeve of his shirt was caught in the machine. He continued to seek music of all kinds, having an almost innate love for the field that kept pulling him towards the industry. Musically, Aranda's early influences included classical music like Beethoven, Bach and Chopin, along with Dead Can Dance, Nine Inch Nails and many other classical and contemporary artists.
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