His attorney's played a tape from Cruz's father saying his son is a good person and that he chose to serve his country by enlisting to become a soldier.
The youngest of three children, he recalls singing devotional songs as well as hearing a lot of Bollywood music on his father's reel-to-reel tape player.
When he became a student at Hampshire College and began to play live shows, his tools were a sampler, two tape decks, and the synthesizer that his father gave him.