My friends from school were calling me, my family members, I was getting emails from comedians. That video went everywhere it hit a million views in like two hours. My first viral video was Tio Choko in September of 2015. We talked with Choko about the early days of his dancing uncle, choreographing for will.i.am, and mashing up the cowboy thrust with Fleetwood Mac.
There’s Chokula the vampire and rapper Chokaine, but his most popular character has always been his silent uncle with the piercing gaze, Tio Choko.Īnd you can find Tio Choko just about everywhere these days, whether he’s shimmying his shoulders in a commercial for the Metro ahead of RodeoHouston, dancing it up with the Black Eyed Peas and Los Tucanes De Tijuana, or leading the Beaumont United High School Marching Band in a mid-football game booty shake. The names of all his characters play off the Spanish word for chocolate, he tells us.
He even continued making funny videos while at college in San Antonio. Choko, short for chocolate, has been making videos since his days at Westside High School, first on MySpace and now on Facebook, YouTube, and Tik Tok.