My dad was in very high demand at that time so my mom suggested that he should teach me a couple of things to see i I had the aptitude for percussion. and as if it were yesterday I can remember my dad putting on a Sergio Mendez record and him bringing out a pair of timbales and showing me the basic bossa nova beat with the record. He instructed me to play the beat as he did and i proceeded to do so ,and that started it I have been playing ever since.

In my early Teens my dad used to take me to his gigs on saturday nights which was usually at a club named the Club Monmartre,or Centro espanol, not realizing that my Father had an ulterior motive and that was I would watch the shows that he did and when asked he had enough confidence in me to be his sub at that show when he was double booked and couldn't be there. One time i will never forget was when he had a concert to play at the Dinner Key auditorium with Celia Cruz and couldn't be there for the first show with La Lupe at the Monmartre, and so without warning he instructed me to play her show until he returned. lucky for me I had been there 3 weekends and pretty much knew how to play it , so he dropped me off at the club. and there I was playing with a latin headliner at 15 what a kick (funny thing though never did see any money from those gigs).. oh well guess I was paying dues.

I started started playing with Bands at the Wreck bar, Inner Circle at the Castaways on the Beach. of course being to young to go to the clubs, I looked older so I got away with it (for awhile) that was very valuable work experience for me, by the time the late 70's rolled around I began building a reputation as a capable drummer on the local scene and had stints with Dance bands like Circle, SOS,and working at TK productions.

Then came "Disco"

At the time I started coming into my own as a singer songwriter and wrote a dance tune named "Disco Break" with a band named "Hemlock" we were signed with Warner/Curb records for 3 years during that time they released 2 other singles and the band recorded a soundtrack for a movie called "Swap Meet" wih Cheryl Rixon, Danny Devito and Rea Perlman unfortunately Disco was going bye bye with harder edged rock coming to the forefront so after Hemlock, several of the members formed Taxi and we became one of the more popular bands of the early 80's in the local club scene. Also at this time I started getting more calls to play and sing on sessions primarily at Studio Center and Criteria working with engineer and Producer Gary Vandy and writer producer Alain Salvati.