Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.