DJing , football(soccer), running, Capoeira, reading, vinyl/ cd collecting, Photography, and sound design.

Miles" by Quincy Troupe
Howel" By Allen Ginsberg
Another Country" by James Baldwin
Nothing's Sacred" by Lewis Black
Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller
Return to my native land by Aimé Césaire
Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

All things that moves, inspires ,and enlightens

Mo Betta Blues, Snatch, Fight Club, SLC Punk!, Pump Up the Volume, Brick, Motorcycle Diaries, Brick, Henry & June, The Secretary, Frida, The Rockers, High Fidelity, Bird, Goldfinger, Amelie, The Killers, Fist of Fury, Chocolat', Mississippi Masala, Devil in a Blue Dress

Max Roach, Cal Tjader, Jorge Ben, Bobby Hutcherson, The Beatles, Isaac Hayes, Marcos Valle, the Clash, the Stooges, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Kool Keith, Patrice Rushen, Joao Gilberto, Dinah Washington, Marvin Gaye, Jeff Beck, Santana, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, Dennis Brown, Ken Boothe, the Heptones, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, all Studio One, Horace Andy, the Bad Brains, EPMD, the Stones, Herbie Hancock, the greatness that is Blue Note Records 50s-70s, 4Hero, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Earth Wind and Fire, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Joe Walsh, Patto, David Bowie, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell,Steely Dan, Eddie Palmieri, Tim Maia, Stan Getz, Lewis Taylor,Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Brother Jack McDuff, Ed Motta, Johnny Hammond, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, The Staple Singers, James Mason, Black Sabbath, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Curtis Mayfield, Les McCann, the Who, the Faces, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, KRS-One, A Tribe Called Quest, Serge Gainsbourg, the Ohio Players, George Duke, the Doobie Brothers, Wings, Blondie, Queen, Yes, Sly Stone, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, The cool himself, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Burt Bacharach, the 5th Dimension, the Zombies, Return To Forever, Neil Young, Alice Cooper, Os Mutantes, Joe Bataan, Willie Colon, the Doors, Marlena Shaw, James Brown, Frank Zappa, Scritti Politti, the Smiths, the Staple Singers, the Kinks, Biggie Smalls, Gang Starr, Destroyer, Black Flag, Jane's Addiction, the Pixies, the Pretenders, The Great High Priestess of Soul Nina Simone, Sergio Mendes, Antonio Adolfo, Joyce, Baden Powell, Nick Drake, Weldon Irvine, Idris Muhammed, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Airto Moreira, Osunlade, Portishead, Radiohead, Stereolab, Bud Powell, Donald Byrd, Massive Attack, Otis Redding, B.B. King, Al Green, my favorite soul singer, Bill Withers, Daft Punk, The Flaming Lips, The original Black President, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, Jay-Dee, Madlib, RZA, and my living idol, Giles Peterson.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware"- Henry Miller

Throughout the U.S. Brazil, France, Nigeria, Morocco, United Kingdom, Trinidad, Jamaica, Mexico