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This
second title I earned back in Hungary in the early seventies. I was
the first and only conga drummer in Central Europe at the time and in
the momentous upsurge of progressive rock and jazz in my old country
suddenly everybody wanted a conga drummer on their team! I played and
recorded and toured Europe with all the top musicians in every conceivable
genre and situation.
At the same time I followed my other calling too, the one I got my degree
for: languages and literature. Among critics and readers I became one
of the best translators of world literature from Spanish and English
into Hungarian. In 1977, at the peak of success and popularity in both
careers, I decided to take the “Big Leap”, to defect –
not to the West as everybody else, but to the South, back to my beloved
Caribbean.
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