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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
I was passionately interested in Elizabethan history at school, so it was natural for me as a musician to take interest in the music of that period.
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.