"It was a great time to be young, Latino, and growing up in New York
City. There was drumming heard in every neighborhood, and the music we
had inherited from "the great jazz mambo era" of the 1940s and 1950s,
inspired us to seek out our cultural roots and the common bonds that we
share in the African-Caribbean Diaspora. This, combined with all the
other music I was listening to, is the foundation of my playing,
composing, arranging and teaching today." (Sanabria commenting on
growing up as a young boy in the 1960s)
