A ten-time Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter, Arturo Sandoval has performed at
the White House, the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards and released more than 30
albums during a stellar career that began as a nine-year-old playing on the
streets of Artemisa, a small town on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba.
The son of a mechanic, he began studying Russian classical music at the age of
twelve and was enrolled at the Cuban National School of the Arts at 15, before
helping to form the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, which evolved into the
legendary, Afro-Cuban fusion ensemble Ira...