"I liked doing music that I wasn't so familiar with, " he says.

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In the '90s when people would ask me why I bothered using my crashy Mac, I told them it was because I liked to program music and it had the best programs.

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Mr. KENYA: I was able to relate to the classical South Asian music as I found more of my roots, and that, combined with music that I already liked, was just kind of a bonus and almost like, wow, this is possible.

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"The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music, " he recalled in Dirty Linen magazine in 1995.

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For ages I was set on finding a tall, handsome man who liked to salsa dance and to listen to Spanish music.

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