College Sound: 3D Friends defines Skins

Daniel Chavez Wright sat at his friend's place when he first heard his song "Lina Magic" playing during the premiere of MTV's show Skins.

"I don't have MTV at my apartment, but luckily, I had a friend that was nice enough to have me over for it," said Chavez. "I bought a bottle of wine and that was pretty much it."

The bottle of wine was in celebration of winning the OurStage competition "Score Skins Music Project." Wright was just another undeclared Austin Community College student trying to get his music out there when he threw his name in the ring for this competition.

"I just finished writing and recording and releasing the song "Lina Magic," and I wanted to get my name out there to more websites, more outlets on the Internet because I really didn't have too many pages up," said Wright, who also goes by the moniker 3D Friends. "I came across OurStage somehow and I just set up an account, and uploaded a song. After that, it asked me if I wanted to submit for any song searches."

There were three song searches available at the time: one for Subway, another one for Keith Urban and the one for the new show MTV was remaking of the BAFTA-winning British teen show Skins. Wright chose Skins.

"I'd never really heard of Skins before, but that's the one I chose out of the three that they gave me. I never really thought about it after that," said Wright.

He was announced as the winner in December 2009. His song "Lina Magic" is a featured song that opened the first episode, and it became the official theme song which will be played at the beginning of every episode.

"I'm definitely very stoked about this whole opportunity. It's really, it's just amazing... at first I was overwhelmed, but I think I'm starting to get more accustomed to it. I'm just really excited," said Wright.

Because of winning the competition, Wright has been busy promoting the show with interviews and photo shoots. With all this leading up to the show premiere, he was more than ready to take it all in.

"I think all of those things kind of prepared me for that moment. So whenever I actually saw it on TV, it was amazing. But like I said, I was a little more accustomed to it," said Wright.

Now that his musical debut has passed, Wright has future plans to release an album.

"I definitely have an album in the works. I'm really just working on getting my name out there. ("Lina Magic") is on MTV, and people are hearing it. There's a lot of things that come with that. So I'm really just preparing myself for that. And, I have some stuff in the works right now," said Wright.

Wright is currently taking a break from his classes for the semester.

"I actually registered for classes for this semester, but with all that is going on right now, I really don't have the time for it," said Wright. "I'm flying out to New York it seems like every other week. I really don't have the time for (ACC), but it's hard to say. It really is hard to say."