Cuban-American composer/arranger, conductor and administrator. Formerly lead trumpeter and arranger for Miami Sound Machine. He has over 450 publications with major music publishers such as Alfred, Barnhouse, Hal Leonard, Arrangers Publishing Company and others to his credit and is currently a professor in the Educational/Organizational Leadership Department at Nova Southeastern University.

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