Matthew Santos

Matthew Santos is an American rock and folk singer-songwriter, musician and painter. He is best known for his collaboration with Chicago native Lupe Fiasco on the single "Superstar." He signed to Lupe Fiasco's 1st & 15th Entertainment record label, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. Matthew Santos was born on December 28, 1982 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His mother is from Denmark and his father is of Filipino and Spanish descent. He graduated from Southwest High School in Minneapolis. He moved to Chicago in 2001 to study music composition at Columbia College Chicago.