The Nth Power

My dad's brothers definitely played the first time I performed with my dad at five years old.

my dad his brother coke and his brother phil were in the band and they were called the escobedo brothers uh so yeah growing up in a musical family my other uncles play as as well and then i have a lot of cousins that play it's an extremely loud house

Your dad, your uncle were deeply immersed in Afro-Cuban, Latin music.

And I've heard that Tito Puente was sort of a godfather to you.

Yeah, Tito was my godfather.

Tito would come to the Bay Area.

He would bring his band and then sometimes they would be in the house jamming and things like that.

And he took us under his wings and really allowed us to be able to perform with not just his band, but with other Latin artists outside of the strict way of performing Latin music.