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ARUAN ORTIZ, who was born into the Cuban world of total music in 1973, spent his boyhood walking through the working class streets of his home city Santiago de Cuba.
There, he experienced popular music, folkloric dance companies, random amateur guitarists, vocalists jamming and singing, choirs, rumba-percussion and Cuban-Haitian groups — all this while simultaneously exposed to European classical music at the local conservatory.
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