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I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

I love that I can play around with all types of music.

Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.