{"id":148323,"date":"2025-09-11T06:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148323\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:27:03","slug":"it-was-mind-blowing-when-madonna-gave-deftones-her-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148323\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was “Mind-Blowing” When Madonna Gave Deftones Her Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deftones<\/a> were one of the earliest signings to Maverick Records, the label co-founded by Madonna<\/a>. Looking back on that time, frontman Chino Moreno admits it was \u201cmind-blowing\u201d to get the pop superstar\u2019s seal of approval.<\/p>\n

The Deftones singer discussed the band\u2019s interactions with Madonna in a new interview with The Irish Times<\/a>. As he recalled, \u201cIt was [A&R rep] Guy [Oseary] who discovered us first, and then he and [Maverick co-founder] Freddy DeMann flew us from our base in Sacramento to Los Angeles, where we played a couple of songs for them in a little rehearsal space.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Moreno continued, \u201cThat same day we were invited to the record-label offices in Beverly Hills, where I got to meet Madonna, which was mind-blowing. So, yeah, she definitely gave us the thumbs-up. It was crazy to be a 20-year-old kid and have somebody whose music I\u2019ve been listening to since I was 10 years old give us her approval. It was hard to take in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As for Madonna\u2019s input into Deftones\u2019 music, Moreno said she \u201cwasn\u2019t as hands-on as maybe you would think. In no way was she dictating our creative direction or anything like that, and, in general, the label let us be us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Material Girl has attended a number of Deftones concerts over the years, with Moreno noting, \u201cThey were a little nerve-wrenching, because you knew she was watching you\u2026 One of the biggest artists in the world knew who we were. It was awesome and very, very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deftones remained on Maverick Records from 1995 through 2006. Maverick went defunct in 2009, and Deftones have been releasing their music through Warner Music\u2019s Reprise Records ever since.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s latest album is Private Music, which arrived last month. Deftones are currently supporting the LP with a North American tour<\/a> (pick up tickets here<\/a>), with dates running through September 19th show in Atlanta, followed by festival appearances at Louder Than Life, Aftershock, and their own Dia De Los Deftones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deftones were one of the earliest signings to Maverick Records, the label co-founded by Madonna. Looking back on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-148323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}