At that time, the famous American music writer George Gershwin was looking for someone to play a leading part in his new work, "Porgy and Bess."

VOA: special.2010.03.07

And really fell in love with the jumping part of it," "There was a bunch of us kids at the time, a bunch of my friends and that's just kind of the route that we went down."

VOA: standard.2010.01.31