I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
“It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group.”
“When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.”