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My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.

My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.