Drake Bell appeared to rebrand as a Spanish-language singer

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Darcy Schild
Sun, November 22, 2020, 9:07 AM PST

Drake Bell starred in the Nickelodeon sitcom "Drake and Josh" and has released a number of singles and albums in the mid-2000s and 2010s.

In 2019, the now-34-year-old released his first Spanish-language song, followed by a fully Spanish-language album in 2020.

Recently, he's changed his last name on social media to "Campana," the Spanish word for "Bell," and fans have expressed confusion at the rebrand.

Some fans speculated that Bell's rebrand could be tied to his denial of abuse allegations made by his ex-girlfriend in August. Bell vehemently denied the allegations.

Others have praised his Spanish-language tracks, which are now some of his most-listened-to songs on Spotify.

Drake Bell is known for starring alongside Josh Peck in "Drake and Josh" on Nickelodeon from 2004 to 2007.

Bell got his start in acting when he starred in the show "Home Improvement" in 1994 at around 8 years old.

From 1999 to 2002, he appeared on "The Amanda Show," the sketch comedy series on Nickelodeon hosted by Amanda Bynes and other young actors, many of whom would go on to become stars on the network.

In the comedy series "Drake and Josh," Bell played Josh Peck's on-screen step-brother. Bell, also a musician, performed the series' theme song, "I Found a Way."

Aside from "Drake and Josh," Bell seemed to focus on music in the mid-2000s and 2010s.

Bell also had acting roles in the 2005 remake of "Yours, Mine & Ours," and starred briefly in other Nickelodeon shows, including "Victorious."

In the mid-2000s, he continued to grow his music portfolio. Bell released his first album "Telegraph" in 2005, followed by "It's Only Time" in 2006, which included one of his arguably more famous songs, "Makes Me Happy."

In 2014, he released "Ready Steady Go!" and in 2020, "The Lost Album."

In 2018, Bell released his first Spanish-language single and in 2019, tweeted that he would only be writing in Spanish on social media.

Bell first released his song "Fuego Lento" in 2018 and an accompanying music video in 2019, which includes both English and Spanish lyrics.

After "Fuego Lento," Bell continued to released music in Spanish, such as another single, "No Perdamos Más Tiempo" with Jorge Blanco, in 2019.

In November 2019, Bell tweeted that moving forward, his social-media pages would only be in Spanish, not English.

A recently resurfaced picture Bell shared in 2019 shows a Mexico ID card that reads "Drake Campana" — with "Campana" being the Spanish word for "Bell."

Bell shared the Instagram post in November 2019 of a picture of an ID card that appears to be his own. Some fans speculate that the singer permanently relocated to Mexico, though at the time of writing, Bell's geographic location on his Twitter account bio says Los Feliz, California.

Fans have also noticed that the musician recently changed his name on social media to Drake Campana.



The singer's Twitter account, at the time of writing, says "Drake Campana" with an emoji representing the Mexican flag. His Instagram username is also "Drake Campana."

Posts on his Instagram account seem to include a mix of English and Spanish language, while his Twitter account appears to include mostly tweets in Spanish.

Fans have recently taken note of the musician's apparent rebrand and are reacting on Twitter.

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196. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 11/20 **1**
So, this former A+ list singing tween who was part of a duo on his show, has a past of sexually assaulting underage girls that was catching up to him. So, what does he do? Moves to Mexico where the age of consent is super grey once you get above the age of 12. Drake Bell (Campana) (Is Drake Bell Mexican? Singer changes name and now sings in Spanish)