WEBVTT - Planet Pops: Emilio Estefan 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 I was going to nobody who was really famous. I 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:06.080 was going for real music, real people, and you know, 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.520 to keep some of the legacy, especially for given music, 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.159 because that's my heritage. It's a beautiful thing to have. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.159 You know. The family is important, believe it or not. 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.960 For me, it's the biggest production. And when I was leaving, 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:17.520 I got the bag and the like. They say, you 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.279 could be famous, but you have to pay the bill. Now, 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.759 you know price Sometimes it's not to get a diploma. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.040 Price when you accomplish something and you share with other people. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.479 My dad told me one day, the best feeling in 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.280 the world is when you give something to somebody. The 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.680 worst feeling what you had to ask. Money is important, 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.360 and success is important, but I think to be happy 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.080 and to feel, I mean that you did something for 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.920 the community, for global is an incredible thing. I never 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.000 got to sleep if I feel I have to tell 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.239 you something that you have to hear. I don't like 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.440 to hold anything for anybody, because I think that's what 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.080 should be set used to tell me. You can sell records, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.160 you cannot buy love. I say, if you don't sign her, 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:55.960 you don't get you Ennifer Love. You don't get Shack 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.200 and you don't get glorious seff marketing. But it was 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.640 a crazy idea. I got on a boat that was 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.080 only like twenty two feet, very small boat, and we 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.240 got lost for seven days without food and water. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.440 And my mom was pregnant. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.640 Was pregnant? I mean, Sacha told me that. Well, look 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.039 the way you went to school, I said, Miami High Season. Man, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.800 I never go there. They never teach you English. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:30.759 Oh Sacha, what a little twirch. Welcome earthling space worms, Senora, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.720 senoras and everything in between. The truth is, I could 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.160 sit here and only talk about the human being on 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.800 the couch with us today, and that would be way 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.119 more than a gift to us. All I could talk 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.240 about the way he's been married to his wife for 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.200 forty six and a half years, wow, and he's still 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.200 leaving notes love notes on her nightstand and in her luggage. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.640 The way he works twelve hours a day and still 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.240 drops off medicine for his daughter and her partner on 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.400 the way home. And the way he waits except at 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.920 five am to feed stray animals that probably wouldn't consider 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.320 themselves straight at all, considering they have better mattresses than 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.000 most of us, not to mention what he's managed to 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.160 achieve in other ways. It would be a shame to 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.760 not list those accomplishments, because they are just as rare 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:17.480 as his soul. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.800 We are in the presence of a living legend, with 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.920 an astonishing nineteen Grammy Awards, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.560 induction into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, a star 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.960 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and so much more. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.200 Emilio is not just a producer. He's a musical and 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.440 artistic architect who has helped shape the global soundscape for 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.440 over four decades, writing and creating the soundtrack to our Lives, 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.679 working with supernovas including Shakira, Reggie Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.800 Celia Gruz, Carlos Vives, the Whalers, Gloria and Emily Is, Stefan, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.200 Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Carlos Santana, and the list goes on, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.320 and contributing to some of the biggest movies of all time, 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.960 including Top Gun, The Special, Anastasia, The Little Mermaid, and 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:02.920 so many more. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.600 But why is he truly the best? Because he's my 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.080 pops and a grandpa and a husband and a son, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.600 and trust me, one of the best ones to ever 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.400 exist in all of the galaxies, including here in outer space. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.200 And that's probably the accolade if you asked him, he'd 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.240 be most proud of. Please welcome to outer space the 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:28.720 one and only my Poppy because. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.639 She's my daughter. I love her fool So you know, 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.600 say what you get. I mean when you have it, 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.960 such a beautiful family. But you know, the only thing 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.480 I can tell you, I never see a give on astronaut. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:39.600 I can tell you. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:49.600 Okay, well, you're the first. For those of you out there, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.360 this conversation is going to be in Spanglish, so you're 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.520 gonna hear a little bit of English, so get ready for. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:04:00.880 Maybe another language the world. It was a lot about you, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.240 and that's good. You're somebody that should be studied for many, many, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.160 many many years, not only because of, like we mentioned, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.560 what you've accomplished, but who you are inside. I think 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.480 that's what truly makes you out of this world. And 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.320 there's a few things about you that we know or 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.360 that maybe you haven't talked about. A lot that I 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.320 would love to ask you today, starting with everybody knows 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.719 Miami Sandwichine and everybody knows Mom. Everybody knows Miami Latin 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:30.760 Boys even but can you tell us about El conjunto Kapatio. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.479 Co hunt Kapeta was something that you know, I wanted 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.160 to be an advansition when I was in Cuba and 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.200 we used to play when everybody went to launch it. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.880 You know, in Santiago de Cuba, we used to bring 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.360 all the kids around to your Goman performer and then 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:44.839 the only thing available wasn't. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.160 Accordion And how old were you? 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.680 I was probably eleven years old, wow, twelve years old. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.360 But it was a tough time at the same time 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.159 because I will haven't the best time of my life. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.479 But I made a decision at eleven years old to 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.760 go leave Cuba to save my family, not to get 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.719 any military as so realistic and sometimes probably you don't know, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.720 it's really hard to confront life when you're eleven years old. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.680 You have to make a decision to live knowing that 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.280 pro you will never see your family again. But if 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.560 I could stay at the time, that could be the 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.880 end of my family. To stay in a communist country. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.080 My music was what I saved my life. I think 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.000 that's the reason I done so many great things from music. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.160 Because you know, when you do something you love, that's 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.760 the man thing and life and to me was a 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.760 blessing many years after real and I with a family. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.080 I have a beautiful marriage and my family is a 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.880 beautiful family. I have the best daughter in my whole life. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.800 I love you too, so you know, it's a beautiful 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.000 thing to have. You know, the family is important, Believe 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:38.960 it or not. The family is extremely important for me. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:45.240 It's spent for me. It's the biggest production. So what 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.760 you're talking only to accordion conga take guitar. You know something. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.440 We became really famous and there was time you know, 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.480 believe it or all that. You know, they after three years, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.480 I mean the the bis A game, we left to Spain. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.000 It was incredible because you know, getting too Spain, living 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.440 with a beautiful family, and you know, I tell this 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.440 story because people need to know your life can change 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.240 in one minute and a flight to spend eight hours. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.200 When I got there, we was almost homeless, and we 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.440 used to go to a church for food and you know, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.760 and I used to eat it between Monday and Friday. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.720 I used to go to the church where I call 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.880 the given people and then afterwards, I mean Sari and Sonday. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.719 So a guy played the accordion and went there. I said, listen, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:25.600 I know it's a lot of given people coming to 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.040 Madrid and the guy who plays a night, but I 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:29.520 can come for lunch and you give it food for 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.839 me and my dad. You know it will be okay. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.400 And you know it was in the way it was 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.039 a blessing because I wasn't enjoying playing the accordion, but 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.559 I was, you know, I got free food. Sometimes people 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.839 need to know Latinos, especially we look, you know, we 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.159 do so many things to save her family and to 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.919 do things beautiful things. I also wanted to make a 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.760 contribution to you know, to Latinos and to Latino's families 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.160 and to this incredible country that we live. That is 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.880 an incredible thing to do. I always say, always a 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.040 new kid a labuy, I say, God, bless America. It's 0:06:58.080 --> 0:06:59.560 a blessing, I'm going to tell you, because to live 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.240 in freedom is the main thing that you can have. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.600 That's true. Well, and there aren't a lot of places 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.440 in this world right now that experience that freedom. But 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.840 also the freedom that you've given your family and your 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.000 children by making that sacrifice. That a lot of us 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:21.040 out there listening. You know, probably family share the same story. Yeah. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:22.760 Absolutely, we have a lot of people like that. But 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.040 it's a beautiful thing. I mean, when you accomplish a 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.040 lot of things in the long run, what you want 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.680 to leave is a legacy to you, which is the 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.280 more important thing in my whole life, you and my grandson, 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.480 of course, my wife and you know, the family. I mean, 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.560 that's a that's a beautiful thing to have, you know, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.320 to accomplish and create something that people. People are so 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.560 nice to me and in to glory I go out 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.840 of people give me kiss and thank you God, blessing. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.160 It's so nice that it was, you know, he said, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.160 you know, make music and you know it's a beautiful. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.560 It's a beautiful You do a lot more than but 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:56.440 we can leave it there. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.960 It was nice. The other there went to a place 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:59.840 and you know, I went to gets on the sellars 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.640 for the kids that made the mosticus in the studio 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.120 it was and guy said, Ali said, oh my god, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.280 hell and he was so loud. I got a lot 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.560 of people come from the kitchen the beauty parlo. I 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.840 mean it was like forty people I took, like, you know, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.760 forty pictures and when I was leaving, I got the 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.640 back and they like they say, you could be famous, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:18.720 but you have to pay the bill now. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.320 So I don't know if you know this, but this 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.360 is actually your fifth appearance on in our own world. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.600 You came on for a father of the bride for 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.959 a second. We did a prank call with you. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:40.520 The first daughter the. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.160 Association of you know, she has like an incredible timing 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.440 and getting air plane. She said, you know you want 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:50.040 the best, said, you know, food and wine, and thank 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:55.480 you so much. Say you're going to be careful with you. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:09:00.800 We also did a club we did had a little 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.080 cameo of you, and so it really is a pleasure 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:04.480 to have you. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.120 Yes, pay me, pay me. 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:09.720 We paid him in. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.720 On that after your famous days and which capito is 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:24.560 also what well my grandpa and I heard today actually 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:25.640 in a reconnaissance. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.200 Yes, we're doing some research. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:34.679 Yes that cap three stooges three. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.960 Ye, your grandfather won the lottery twenty seven times. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:38.560 That's crazy. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.280 Was the luckiest guy in the whole world, Like he 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.160 died with one perachuse and monso because he gave his 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.360 money away to all the poor people in the world. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.520 He was a great role model for me as a 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.960 person because he left the prize. You know, price sometimes 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.440 not to get a diploma, apply a price when you 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.400 accomplish something and you you share with other people. My 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.599 dad told me one day, the best feeling in the 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.920 world is when you give something to somebody. The word feeling. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.480 What you had to ask now the way he did, 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:09.760 Kapitia was a guy and that was a bad guy, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.240 and then he played the role that said, listen, Kapeti, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:13.960 you say, a good guy give money to everybody. He 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.960 wanted to change his name because he likes the guy 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.360 and it was only like you know something on radio, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.920 But you know, that's the only reason in his mind 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.080 he wanted to do that. And then he sticked with 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:23.840 us a nickname. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.480 Yeah, well didn't you. You told me one time of 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.880 story that you grabbed money from one of the times 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.840 he won the lotto and you opened up a shoe factory. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:32.959 No underwear, underwear factory. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.480 He did. He did that in Cuba. I mean, but 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.679 I did hear when I would When I came from Cuba, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.000 I grew up with a Bacardi family. I was sixteen 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.320 years old and I needed to work, and you know, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.120 and I went as a police I need work, and 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.320 you know, they put me as an office boy. And 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:48.880 then I remember I used to go early in the 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.360 money to make coffee for everybody. I said, monded to 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.120 come here coffee. And then it was a lady said, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.920 oh my god, a midio, I need to bring the 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.200 kids to the school. I don't have the money. And 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.880 he said, you know something. One day she comes to 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.079 I just want the lottery. I said, oh my god, 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.160 I'm so happy. I made a special coffee. I say, 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.360 I'm kidding. Thirty minutes later my dad called me said, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.880 come home, we just want the lottery from Perrico. Oh 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.800 you know what I did. I put some money. I 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.960 put it, I saying something we are long here. Something 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.160 happened to me or it didn't happened to you. I 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.080 want to be sure. You said some money. Yeah, And 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.400 we put into some stuff from Bacardy. Wow, so you know, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.000 I was, it's only five people in the world. I 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.760 want to say, lead a piece of briccardiy, I mean 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.960 my thing. It's very small, but I owned that and 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.880 I was a I mean then Bacardi board, the grey 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.880 use patrols, so many other things. Sometimes you have to 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.640 think in the long term, what is going to happen, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.400 because what happened to me. I never wanted them to 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.080 have that problem, my family and my kids, because it's 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.719 really hard to lose everything in hey hours that you fly. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.439 Because one person, I mean one person, I would never 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.440 like to say his name, change the history of Cuba. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.120 How it's still people suffering in Cuba, How people still 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.760 don't have the freedom, how people don't have food, you know, 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.120 which is a horrible thing. 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.720 Horrible. So you mentioned earlier when you left your family 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.760 in Cuba, right, And one of the other incredible things 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.320 that you and mom have done is the Broadway show 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.960 On Your Feet, which not only had an amazing run 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.439 on Broadway, but it's traveling all the world. Has been 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:17.400 translated into a Maria out of languages, and there's a 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.640 very powerful scene in the show where you're at the 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.880 airport and you're holding a photo and you leave your family. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.720 Did that really happen or was it something. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.680 Like that happens? Because my grandfather knew that I would 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.280 never see him again. I said this picture, so you 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:35.960 remember me like that? So many people happens. It's only 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:41.040 Latinos you're talking about Jewish people, I'm Italian people. Sometimes 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.360 people need to make a move in life, you know, 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.680 to make a better life from their family. And I 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.439 knew I got it to I have to go to 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.720 Cuba at the time, because you know, it was very 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.079 difficult to stay thinking that, you know, getting too fifteen 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.040 years old, you get in a military action. But I 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.599 really realized it. I never went in a bike or 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.680 skate because you know, my childhood was worrying how am 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.760 I going to live my family? And like that is 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.840 a lot of people, a lot of people from many countries, 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.600 a lot of people from many many countries. I go 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.160 to that kind of pain, and you know, I think 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.400 I hope that the world they learned to make things 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.199 better for everybody and get to a better world when 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.760 it comes to it. Sometimes because one person can change 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.040 the life of many people. Look what happened to go, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.880 I say, dictator for many, many. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:24.959 Years, and look at you. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.240 You're one person who has changed the world for better. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:28.880 For a lot of people. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.520 I'm very happy because you know, we always work. I mean, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.160 money is important, and so says it's important. But I 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.680 think to be happy and to feel I mean that 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.120 you did something for the community for Global is an 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:40.800 incredible thing. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.800 Yeah, you're amazing. A few weeks ago, your niece Lily 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.360 was receiving her Hollywood Star and we heard a story 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.840 that I've heard a couple of times, but I don't 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.000 think everybody has heard. If you want to share it 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.839 with people, I think they would really love to hear 0:13:55.880 --> 0:14:00.319 it of how you essentially rescue them Lily and and 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.520 Michi and Papo, your brother from Cuba. What was what 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:05.240 was that like? 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.120 Well, that was the first time came. I mean I 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:10.959 never said that to anybody because I didn't want to 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:11.280 say that. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.880 Yeah, she was receiving the. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.240 Start and she mentioned that she was leaving a safe 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.160 country because when Cuba opened Maria, that was the only 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.520 chance that I got to get them out. It was 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.520 twenty years. There was long It's not what they was 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.120 going out, but it was a crazy idea. I got 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.520 on the boat that was only like twenty two feet, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.680 a very small boat, and we got lost for seven 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:32.600 days without food and. 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.160 Water, and my mom was pregnant. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.840 It was pregnant, and you know something. Finally, when I 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:38.880 got there, they told me the boat was so small 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.160 that I cannot get them, so I have to come 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.400 back and then believe it or not, when you do 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.600 something beautiful. We play a benefit in Costa Rica for 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.600 the present, for the benefit kids that we didn't and 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.000 I said, listen, I need a favor. You need to 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.520 see you can get a bisa for them. And then 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.640 the president said I would do that for me, and 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.120 then they came to Costa Rica. 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.400 I'm sorry, how long did you say? 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.560 You got lost for seven days? 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.040 That's what is that experience? 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:04.160 Like? 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:08.040 We brought some food with us, but you know, we 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.400 didn't bring enough for the four people that went in 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.160 the boat. So we were thinking we was going coming 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.720 and coming back, and you know it was tough because 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.040 really listen, you're in the middle and we have no gas. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.520 If we ran out of gas, so what we did 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.720 mean that mean we brought some cookies and you know, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.560 some things that you can keep with you know, and 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.480 we used to divide that and now I used to 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.320 put like a we used to put like a little 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.520 bit of a plastic to collect water when whenever the 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.640 rain we put whatever we have to collect the water. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.560 It was tough because Gloria was pregnant when I give did. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.960 You ever think what happened? What if I don't get back. Yeah, 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.840 many times, my poor mom, like your poor dada, your 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:48.840 poor mom, for sure. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.320 And there is no communication, no communication whatsoever. I remember 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.480 they let us go in a private buss. 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:56.040 Yeah. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.840 And it took me twelve twelve hours to get from 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.320 the boat and they put they made us way, you know, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.320 standing there for twelve hours. I was almost I think 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.400 like probably fourteen days without taking a shower. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:08.000 Wow. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.120 And I went to a hotel. I made a line 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:11.560 when I called my brother, and my brother said, oh 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.000 my god, we're free, will coming And I said no, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.800 I mean you know something that I was not allowed 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.600 to bring. And then he said, you know something, try 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.720 to continue life and do what you have to do 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.920 and forget about us. I said, no, I know, never 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.600 forget about you. Where are you going to get you out? 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.479 And then four years later they went to gost Africa. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.280 Wow. Wow, you were all the way there to make 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.320 sure that he knew and crossed all the way and 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.000 swam and took a bus. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.720 First his life, his family, his wife, his kid on 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:41.200 the way. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.200 But you know, I never said that. To an interview, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.160 she said that she was getting at touched him and 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.320 I said, oh my god, everybody nobody, nobody. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.520 I think that it's a perfect story to describe your 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:57.000 character because your character precedes you. That's like Emily said, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.000 your your success, your resume. I had Jose send me 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.240 your ePK because I was so impressed by it. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.199 I wanted to show my friends. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.919 I do look at everything he's done. I'm part of 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.439 the Amelia Stefan fan. Yeah, but you as a person 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.639 as a father, and I've gotten to see it up close, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.080 which they haven't had that opportunity. You're an incredible human being, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.000 and I think that that's really the lesson that you 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.600 have to teach humanity. I really think that's your legacy 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.840 is the man that you are, the father that you are, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.320 the husband, the grandfather, the father in law. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.520 It's in the music, It's in everything, sure does you know? 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.280 And I think that's a beautiful thing that you all 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.880 constantly teach me about how you can spread powerful messages 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.920 through music in such a dark time and that way 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:41.679 we really care. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.000 Do lyrics when you write lyrics? Tell me so the 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.840 song that I wrote in my whole life is coming 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.639 out of there an accidently. I mean, we was in 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.120 the top of the world, and you know, we made 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.159 president Bush and the White House. Then we went to 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:01.000 Sony bought a Columbia pictures. We went to celebrate the night, 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.080 and then the next day we got into an accident 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.600 and they told us the Gloria probably whenever woke again 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.919 and no more kids. And then you are you too 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:15.480 also became like a you know something. You became as 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.560 a miracle too, that you know, and your mom said, 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.040 I going to have her and I want to get 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.240 back in the stage one year after. Your mom is 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.399 an incredible person. It's so beautiful, and you marriage somebody 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.520 that you admire and you fall in love even more 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.840 to the years because you know time is running out 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.720 and it's beauty to spend the time that you have 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:31.600