Drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, educator, filmmaker and bandleader. He is a South Bronx native of Puerto Rican parentage and has performed and recorded with such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaría, Paquito D’Rivera, Ray Barretto, Candido, Larry Harlow, and Afro-Cuban jazz Godfather, Mario Bauzá.