Name: Charlie Puth on New Baby Boy Jude, Playing Music in the Delivery Room & Working with Amazing Artists
Uploaded: 2026-03-29T21:32:58.000Z
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We welcome a popular singer and songwriter who can play any instrument.

He could write a symphony with a hammer and a light switch.

What does it feel like to be a dad now for almost two weeks?

It's very fun for me because my son just happens to love the piano.

There's a well, you know, babies are trying to figure out their digestive systems.

They're trying to figure out that, like, they don't know yet that you don't have to squeeze so hard to make something happen.

And what ends up happening whenever I play, you know, some Beatles are like, "Hey, Jude," which is convenient for me.

Which is what you yeah, when you posted about the baby on Instagram.

So he's kind of a he's playing a wind instrument while you're playing the yeah.

Are you very hopeful that he will have this ability that you have?

But he can grow up to be whatever he wants to be.

But yes, in the back of in the left-hand corner of my mind, I secretly hope that he'll enjoy the music.

You share that and to have that experience with him.

And are you going to name all your children after Beatles songs, or just?

She was like, "Don't give away any more names." Oh, yeah.

I get to go see him right after this and her.

You really didn't take any paternity leave at all, did you?

It's like, did you you guys were you in the delivery room or just right there in the recording studio?

I was burping Jude and eating Taco Bell, much to the dismay of my trainer.

But yeah, in the hospital, I bought all the nurses and doctors McDonald's and Domino's and other healthy abramons.

Just to get a little extra special attention there, huh?

But you know what's we were the only ones in the we were the only ones in the section of the hospital.

Did you play any music in the delivery room?

You asked what my life feels like two weeks as a dad.

Everything has lined up so well musically.

Even at the Super Bowl, I wanted to I wanted to I wanted it to sound the national anthem to sound just like it sounded in my head.

And I knew that when Jude was born, we were going to play, "Hey, Jude," in the delivery room.

And all the nurses and doctors were going to sing, "Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah." And that's exactly what happened.

Your national anthem was really beautiful.

Boy, you really I can see you're getting emotional thinking about it.

Well, because it's really music is such an amazing thing.

And the whole reason why I make music and make albums and go on world tours weeks after my first child is born is because I want to spread the word that making art is the most important thing that you can do.

Well, your tour will start in, what, a few weeks, right?

Not in the very beginning, but maybe a couple of weeks.

You're going to have a hard time with that.

You're going to have to play only happy songs on this tour because it's going to be difficult otherwise.

So grateful that I wrote so many breakup anthems in 2018.

What was your first concert that you went to as a kid?

1997 at the Garden State Art Center, James Taylor.

Oh, now that's James Taylor is one of my very favorites.

And you have a great song with James Taylor also.