Toro y Moi's Chaz Bundick on how flipping burgers can make your dreams come true
Huck’s Fiftieth Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, we hear from creative all-rounder Chaz Bundick of Toro y Moi.
#10 – Toro y Moi
Chaz Bundick knew he wanted to make music growing up. He played in bands, recorded his own music, and listened to everything he could get his hands on. He then spent the best part of a decade working between fast-food joints, cafés, and soul-sapping offices, trying to keep his dream alive on the side. Now, as Toro y Moi, he’s started his own record label and design agency on the back of his fifth LP. The hard times, he says, kept him hungry:
“I feel like a lot of people, when they become successful, they become comfortable. That leads to laziness. You really have to be aware of that and try to stay hungry somehow.”
This is just a short excerpt from Huck’s Fiftieth Special, a collection of fifty personal stories from fifty inspiring lives.
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