Teresa Geiger[2][3] (born John Theodore Geiger II September 16, 1988[4]) also known by her stage name Teddy Geiger, is an American artist, songwriter and record producer.[5]
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| Born | (1988-09-16) September 16, 1988 (age 34) Rochester, New York, U.S.[1] |
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| Years active | 2005–present |
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| Website | teddyxo |
Geiger was born on September 16, 1988, to Lorilyn Rizzo-Bridges and John Theodore Geiger, I.[6][7] She has two siblings, brother A. J. and sister Rachel.[6] Geiger attended McQuaid Jesuit High School.[8]
Originally signed to Columbia Records as a teenager, Geiger's debut album, Underage Thinking, released in 2006, peaked at number eight on the US Billboard 200 albums chart and spawned two singles, "For You I Will (Confidence)" and "These Walls."
Geiger's second album, The Last Fears, was released in 2013 through iTunes and Spotify.[9] The album involved many peers and collaborators including John Ryan, A Great Big World, Holly Miranda, Theo Katzman, as well as Levon Helm's producer and musical director Larry Campbell.
Geiger released her third album, LillyAnna under the name Teddy <3 or teddy❤️, in 2018. The album received some acclaim from the likes of New York Times,[10] Paper,[11] Billboard,[12] and Rolling Stone.[13]
Geiger came out as a trans woman in October 2017, and has said that she "knew she was female at 5 years old."[14][15] She has also said that she intends to keep the name Teddy and use female pronouns.[15]
She was engaged to Canadian actress Emily Hampshire, but they ended their engagement in June 2019 after seven months.[16][17][18]
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||
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AUS | CAN | ||
| Lillyanna[20] |
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| The Last Fears |
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| Underage Thinking |
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8 | 27 | 59 |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||
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| US[21] | US Adult Pop[22] |
US Pop[23] | AUS[24] | ||||||
| "Love Somebody" | 2021 | — | — | — | — | Spotify Singles | |||
| "Brass in Pocket" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Scream Drive Faster" (Teddy Geiger Remix) | — | — | — | — | Scream Drive Faster (Teddy Geiger Remix) | ||||
| "Numb" (Teddy <3 Version) | — | — | — | — | Numb | ||||
| "Sharkbait" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | Sharkbait | |||
| "I Was in a Cult" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | Lillyanna | |||
| "Lilyanna" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Body and Soul" | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Better Now (Live from Harro East Ballroom)" | 2007 | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
| "For You I Will (Confidence)" | 2006 | 29 | 10 | 18 | 12 |
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Underage Thinking | ||
| "These Walls" | — | 32 | 34 | 50 | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
| Year | Title | Album |
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| 2013 | "Love and Run" (Tiësto, Mark Alston, Baggi Begovic and Jason Taylor featuring Teddy Geiger) | Club Life: Volume Three Stockholm |
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| 2018 | "Under Pressure" (Shawn Mendes featuring Teddy<3) |
Non-album promotional single |
| Title | Year | Album |
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| "Afraid (My Brother's Cries)" | 2009 | SingSOS: Songs of the Spectrum |
| "Tomorrow Never Comes" | 2008 | The Rocker: Music from the Motion Picture |
| "Bitter" | ||
| "Living for the First Time" | ||
| "Down" | ||
| "Great Escape" | ||
| "Coming Through In Stereo" | ||
| "Nothin' But a Good Time" | ||
| "Too Far" | ||
| "I'm So Bitter" | ||
| "You'll Be in My Heart" | 2006 | Disneymania 4 |
| Title | Year | Artist(s) | Album | Songwriter | Producer |
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| "Normal to Feel" | 2022 | YDE | Normal to Feel | ||
| "Old Her" | 2022 | YDE | Old Her | ||
| "Holy Feeling" | 2021 | Greyson Chance | Trophies | ||
| "Numb Teddy <3 Version" | 2021 | Sylvan Esso | Numb | ||
| "Colors" | 2021 | Dillon Francis, Liza Owen | Happy Machine | ||
| "Blondes" | 2021 | Blu DeTiger | Blondes | ||
| "Hold on to Me" | 2021 | JP Saxe | Dangerous Levels of Introspection (Deluxe Edition) | ||
| "Teenage Boys" | 2021 | Julianna Joy | Garden of Eden | ||
| "Scream Drive Faster Teddy Geiger Remix" | 2021 | LAUREL | Scream Drive Faster (Teddy Geiger Remix) | ||
| "Overloved" | 2021 | Greyson Chance | Overloved | ||
| "Focused" | 2020 | John Legend | Bigger Love | ||
| "Sleep at Night" | 2020 | The Chicks | Gaslighter | ||
| "Bad To Myself" | 2020 | Greyson Chance | Bad To Myself | ||
| "Criminals" | 2020 | Loyal Lobos | Everlasting | ||
| "Whatever It Is" | 2020 | Loyal Lobos | Everlasting | ||
| "San Francisco" | 2020 | Niall Horan | Heartbreak Weather | ||
| "Cross Your Mind" | 2020 | Niall Horan | Heartbreak Weather | ||
| "Dear Patience" | 2020 | Niall Horan | Heartbreak Weather | ||
| "Black and White" | 2020 | Niall Horan | Heartbreak Weather | ||
| "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings" | 2019 | Caroline Polachek | Pang | ||
| "Call Me" | 2019 | Olivia O'Brien | Was It Even Real? | ||
| "We Lied To Each Other" | 2019 | Olivia O'Brien | Was It Even Real? | ||
| "Low Key" | 2019 | Ally Brooke | TBA | ||
| "Jump on It" | 2018 | Sean Paul | Mad Love: The Prequel EP | ||
| "Woke Up in Japan" | 2018 | 5 Seconds of Summer | Youngblood | ||
| "Unless It's With You" | 2018 | Christina Aguilera | Liberation | ||
| "Perfectly Wrong" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "When You're Ready" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Mutual" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Queen" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Because I Had You" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Why" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Fallin' All in You" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Nervous" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Where Were You in the Morning?" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes[26] | ||
| "Spaceship" (featuring Uffie) |
2018 | Galantis | Non-album single | ||
| "If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be)" | 2018 | Leon Bridges | Good Thing | ||
| "Youth" (featuring Khalid) |
2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Machine" | 2018 | Anne-Marie | Speak Your Mind | ||
| "Fitness" | 2018 | Lizzo | Non-album single | ||
| "In My Blood" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Lost in Japan" | 2018 | Shawn Mendes | Shawn Mendes | ||
| "Dance" | 2018 | DNCE | Non-album single | ||
| "Who I Am" (featuring LunchMoney Lewis) |
2017 | Maroon 5 | Red Pill Blues | ||
| "Capital Letters" | 2017 | Grace Mitchell | 21st & Motley EP | ||
| "Do You Think of Me" | 2017 | NVDES | La Nvdite Vol. I EP | ||
| "All We Ever Wanted" | 2017 | Hey Violet | From the Outside | ||
| "O.D.D." | 2017 | Hey Violet | From the Outside | ||
| "Over" | 2017 | James Blunt | The Afterlove | ||
| "Bartender" | 2017 | James Blunt | The Afterlove | ||
| "I Don't Wanna Dance" | 2017 | Coin | How Will You Know If You Never Try | ||
| "Pray" (featuring Rooty) |
2017 | John Ryan | Fifty Shades Darker: OST | ||
| "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back" | 2017 | Shawn Mendes | Illuminate | ||
| "Be the 1" | 2017 | Ricky Reed | Non-album single | ||
| "Express Myself" | 2016 | Ricky Reed | Non-album single | ||
| "Digital Life" | 2016 | Empire of the Sun | Two Vines | ||
| "Patience" | 2016 | Shawn Mendes | Illuminate | ||
| "No Promises" | 2016 | Shawn Mendes | Illuminate | ||
| "Mercy' | 2016 | Shawn Mendes | Illuminate | ||
| "Sober" (featuring JRY) |
2016 | DJ Snake | Encore | ||
| "Girls Talk Boys" | 2016 | 5 Seconds of Summer | Ghostbusters: OST | ||
| "Summer Nights" (featuring John Legend) |
2016 | Tiësto | Non-album single | ||
| "Treat You Better" | 2016 | Shawn Mendes | Illuminate | ||
| "New Girl" | 2016 | Reggie 'n' Bollie | Uncommon Favours | ||
| "Save Yourself" | 2016 | Birdy | Beautiful Lies | ||
| "Work It Out" (featuring Digital Farm Animals) |
2016 | Netsky | III | ||
| "Wonderful Life (Mi Oh My)" | 2015 | Matoma | Hakuna Matoma | ||
| "I Feel Good" (featuring LunchMoney Lewis) |
2015 | Thomas Rhett | Tangled Up | ||
| "Clap Snap" | 2015 | Icona Pop | Emergency EP | ||
| "First Time" | 2015 | Icona Pop | Emergency EP | ||
| "Emergency" | 2015 | Icona Pop | Emergency EP | ||
| "Real Thing" | 2015 | LunchMoney Lewis | Bills EP | ||
| "Stitches" | 2015 | Shawn Mendes | Handwritten | ||
| "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" | 2014 | One Direction | Four | ||
| "Little Black Dress" | 2013 | One Direction | Midnight Memories | ||
| "Love and Run" (with Mark Alston, Baggi Begovic, and Jason Taylor, featuring Teddy Geiger) |
2013 | Tiesto | Club Life: Volume Three Stockholm | ||
| "You're Not Thinking" | 2011 | Drake Bell | A Reminder EP |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2012 | Royal Pains | Lucky | 2 episodes ("Off-Season Greetings", Parts 1 and 2) |
| 2008 | The Rocker | Curtis | Film |
| 2006 | Love Monkey | Wayne Jensen | 4 episodes (Pilot, "Nice Package", "Coming Out", "Confidence") |
| 2004 | VH1's In Search of the Partridge Family | Keith Partridge | Finalist |
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