Bu Cuarón Releases Debut EP Drop By When You Drop Dead, Featuring 6 Songs in 3 Languages (Exclusive)

Bu Cuarón is launching her music career with six multilingual songs in her upcoming EP.

The 20-year-old singer cannot remember a time where music wasn’t important to her. She tells PEOPLE her debut EP, Drop By When You Drop Dead, is a culmination of songs she has worked on since she was 16, and they represent an era in her life she is ready to share.

“Before the EP, I'd made basically an album's worth of music,” Cuarón says. “Then I slowly moved on to making this new era, and it wasn't a moment where it was like, ‘OK, this is the last song of this one.’ It was just a slow transition.”

Cuarón grew up listening to the Beatles, Radiohead and Daft Punk, who showed her that she didn't just love music, she loved all the little sounds that went into the making of it. She began to write her own songs around the age of 13 and edited them on GarageBand before advancing to a more sophisticated system.

Now, with over 30 songs to choose from, Cuarón says that she divided them up into languages — Italian, Spanish and English — before selecting one or two of her favorites from each.

“It's not about the market or selling, it's about, in the end, I'm a trilingual person,” she explains. “I speak three languages every day. That's also how my art is going to be. So it had to be in three languages, and I thought six was a great number.”

The EP features two songs in Spanish (“Game” and “Paris”), one in Italian (“6”) and three in English (“Come for Me,” “Vice Versa” and “Sweet Face”).

“It's little stories that inspired me,” she says about the EP, with songs about her heart being broken when she was a teenager to losing someone to addiction.

Cuarón also has synesthesia, a phenomenon where someone experiences two senses in conjunction. For her, musical sounds remind her of colors, which is how she made the final selection.

“The EP has six songs — six sides, like a Rubik's Cube — and a Rubik's Cube has six different colors and each color of each song is a color of the Rubik's Cube, and it doesn't repeat,” she explains. 

Growing up with seven-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón as her father, the singer-songwriter says she is entering the entertainment industry with his advice in mind. She says he always told her, “If you want something, you make it happen.”

“You want to write a song? You write it,” Cuarón recalls of her father’s words. “No one's going to write it for you. You want it to sound a certain way? You produce it.” 

Because of this, Cuarón reveals she likes to have total control over her work. While she loves to work with others to write songs or produce their music, hers are always her own.

“I always fell into, ‘I want to do everything myself,’” she admits. “Which was really good because even from a business perspective, I get to keep everything for me. But on the other side, it made me a control freak.”

However, she adds, “I think it’s just because I know exactly what I want.”

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Drop By When You Drop Dead is available for streaming everywhere on April 10.