At an age when most kids were sitting on the kitchen floor banging pots and pans, Teddy Geiger was already plunking out songs on the family piano. During the years that followed, Teddy taught himself to play not only piano, but guitar, bass, drums and trombone.
      Fast forward to 2004 when the Teddy Geiger buzz began. One afternoon while golfing, Teddy received a phone call from his mother to "come home immediately because I'm putting you on a plane." Teddy was going to the auditions for Keith Partridge on VH1's new reality show, In Search of the New Partridge Family. Teddy beat out thousands of other Keith contestants to make it to the final rounds of the show. The producers behind the scenes of the show saw Teddy's talent; but had to cut him because of his age. Keith was supposed to be an 18 year old high school senior, at the time, Geiger was only 15, and a high school sophomore. Teddy has said he didn't want to win because then "you get tied into the 'they own everything you've ever written and ever will write' contract", says Teddy. Even though he didn't win, he caught the eye of top record producer, Billy Mann who has worked with people like Sting, Pink, and Kelly Rowland among many top artists. Billy recalls, "He got up on stage at the VH1 show and he was so undeniable that literally everyone sitting behind was pulling their hair out, because at that point we knew he wasn't going to make the cut because of his age. But they couldn't take him off the air early [during a performance] because he looked too good, he sounded too good, and he had too much talent". Teddy was kicked off the show, but not before he played a cover of the Goo Goo Dolls' 'Slide' to adoring (and screaming) fans.
      Backstage, Billy Mann was scribbling down his number and handed it to Teddy as he walked offstage and told him to call him. Back in New York, Billy began shopping Teddy to Columbia Records, and after a few months of back-and-forths between Columbia and the Geiger's lawyers, Teddy was signed to a six-album deal on Columbia.
      In January of 2005, Teddy's high school band, also a local favorite, Faction, competed in a Rochester Battle of the Bands, and won 1,000 dollars, all of which they donated to Tsunami Relief.
      In February of 2005, in the middle of Teddy's junior year at McQuaid Jesuit High School, Teddy got a tutor and left home for New York City to begin recording his debut album, Underage Thinking.
      That spring, Teddy released his acoustic EP, the aptly named "Step Ladder" (Cred Records) , which despite it's difficulty to find (it was originally only sold at shows and in small Rochester record stores), found it's way to the Top 10 Heatseekers in Billboard Magazine.
      During the summer of 2005, Teddy said at a show in his hometown that spring that he planned to "do a few shows in the region and probably just hang around town". Until the end of June, that seemed to be the case...then Teddy got an offer to open for Hilary Duff on a 35-city tour across the nation. The tour, which kicked off in July in Los Angeles, CA and finished up in Washington state at the end of September did wonders for Teddy. His "grassroots buzz" suddenly became a roar.
     Almost simultaneously with the recording of his album, Teddy was asked to read for a TV pilot, Love Monkey. The series creator, Michael Rauch, remembers, "And the second the show sold, Sony said to me, `We have your guy.' And my first reaction was, `This is going to be a war, because this guy is going to be terrible and they're going to try to shove him down our throats. And we're not going to want him, and they gave us Teddy Geiger and said, `Check him out.' And we all just fell in love with him, both musically and also as a presence, as an actor, as a person, he totally helped make the pilot work." After only working with Teddy for a short time, the producers of Love Monkey came to know what the people around Teddy and his ever-gaining fan base already knew: Geiger had talent, and a lot of it. Sadly, Love Monkey, which premiered January 17, 2006, and also starred "Ed"'s Tom Cavanagh, Judy Greer and Larenz Tate, was axed by CBS after a mere 3 episodes. Despite, Geiger had a prominent role in all three episodes.
      In January of 2006, Teddy's music video for "Confidence" debuted on TRL and in a matter of a days was back on the countdown and not long after that had skyrocketed it's way into the top 5 videos in America. The same week, his single, "Confidence" was released to radios nationwide and was the highest debuting single that week.

      In February of 2006, Teddy toured for two weeks with fellow Columbia recording artist Brandi Carlile.
      Teddy's debut album, Underage Thinking, hit stores March 21, 2006, and went Gold (selling more than 100,000 copies in the pre-order stages) Now, we sit back in anticipation of the great things that await Teddy.