: Growing up in communist Cuba, he faced severe restrictions on his artistic freedom and was once jailed during his mandatory military service for surreptitiously listening to jazz on "Voice of America" broadcasts.
: In 1973, he co-founded the groundbreaking Afro-Cuban jazz group Irakere with pianist Chucho Valdés and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera, which became an internationally acclaimed force in jazz fusion.
: Born in Artemisa, Cuba, Sandoval began playing trumpet with street musicians before enrolling at the Cuban National School of Arts at age 15.
: Growing up in communist Cuba, he faced severe restrictions on his artistic freedom and was once jailed during his mandatory military service for surreptitiously listening to jazz on "Voice of America" broadcasts.
: In 1973, he co-founded the groundbreaking Afro-Cuban jazz group Irakere with pianist Chucho Valdés and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera, which became an internationally acclaimed force in jazz fusion. Arturo Sandoval
: Born in Artemisa, Cuba, Sandoval began playing trumpet with street musicians before enrolling at the Cuban National School of Arts at age 15. : Growing up in communist Cuba, he faced
